Objectives
To evaluate the effect of inhaler education programs on clinical outcomes and exacerbation rates in older adults with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Design
Systematic review and meta‐analysis.
Setting and Participants
Older...
Pediatric healthcare update from OUHSC Family Medicine Grand Rounds.
American Academy of Family Physicians Checklist to Prepare Physicians' Offices for Pandemic Influenza.
Intimate partner violence and abuse of older or vulnerable adults are common in the United States but often remain undetected. Although estimates vary, IPV (including sexual violence, physical violence, and stalking) is experienced by approximately 36% of US women and 33% of US men during their...
This is a summary of a systematic review evaluating the evidence regarding the comparative accuracy (the balance of sensitivity and specificity) and possible adverse consequences (both direct and indirect) of various methods used to diagnose celiac disease. The systematic review included 60...
Focus
This is a summary of a systematic review that evaluated the recent evidence regarding the accuracy of diagnostic tests and the effectiveness of interventions for preventing and treating...
IMPORTANCE:
Increased hydration is often recommended as a preventive measure for womenwith recurrent cystitis, but supportive data are sparse.
OBJECTIVE:
To assess the efficacy of increased daily water intake on the frequency of recurrent cystitis in premenopausal women....
Background
Pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) is the most commonly used physical therapy treatment for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI). It is sometimes also recommended for mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) and, less commonly, urgency urinary incontinence (UUI).
This...
This checklist was developed to help clinicians meet the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria for a lung cancer screening counseling and shared decisionmaking visit. All of the criteria listed below must be met for the screening to be covered as a preventive service...
Introduction. About 17 percent of adult women have had urinary incontinence (UI), classified as stress, urgency, or mixed. Stress UI is associated with an inability to retain urine with activities that increase intraabdominal pressure. Urgency UI is associated with the sudden,...
