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Life support for patients without a surrogate decision maker: who decides? |
White DB, Curtis JR, Wolf LE, Prendergast TJ, Taichman DB, Kuniyoshi G, et al. |
Withdrawal of Life Supportâ??When Physicians Decide Background: Physicians must sometimes make life support withdrawal decisions for patients who lack decision-making capacity, advance dir... |
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Opioid analgesics and rates of fatal drug poisoning in the United States. |
Paulozzi LJ, Ryan GW |
Opioids and Fatal Drug Poisoning Background: The age-adjusted rate of fatal unintentional drug poisoning rose 218% from 1990â??2002, from 1.8/100,000 to 5.7/100,000. How large of a role do... |
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Relationship of depression to death or hospitalization in patients with heart failure. |
Sherwood A, Blumenthal JA, Trivedi R, Johnson KS, O'Connor CM, Adams KF, et al. |
Depression and Heart Failureâ??What Is the Story? Background: What is the prevalence of depression among heart failure (HF) patients, and how does this affect outcomes in HF? Is there a correla... |
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