Posted by: admin on: April 25, 2011
Introduction Failure to thrive is a descriptive term for those children less than 5 years of age who have poor weight gain. Classically failure to thrive has been described as weight less than the 3rd centile on two or more separate occasions, or weight which crosses two centile lines over time.While such findings should alert […]
Posted by: admin on: April 20, 2011
Young, healthy patients with early-stage colon cancer are more likely to be overtreated, whereas older, uninsured patients with higher-risk disease tend to be undertreated, according to an analysis of 236,964 cases. Treatment guideline adherence has been proposed as a potential measure of the quality of cancer care. Colon cancer guideline adherence is a potentially attractive […]
Posted by: admin on: April 20, 2011
This guideline is intended for the use of antimicrobial agents in managing patients with cancer who experience chemotherapy-induced fever and neutropenia. Due to the previous iteration of this guideline in 2002, Department of Medicine, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska have a developed a clearer definition of which populations of patients with cancer may […]
Posted by: admin on: April 19, 2011
New guidelines underscore that rheumatoid arthritis remission is possible and helps patients better gauge their health. New guidelines has been created and agreed that define remission for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It’s intended to help researchers set standards during clinical trials, but doctors say this is a milestone for patients too. Since it will give a […]