Mahlon M. Wilkes, PhD; Roberta J. Navickis, PhD
Overall, this meta-analysis of 55 studies detected no effect of albumin on mortality; any such effect may therefore be small. This finding supports the safety of albumin. The influence of methodologic quality on relative risk for death suggests the need for further well-designed clinical trials.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):149-164. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00007
Heleen W. Eijkhout, MD; Jos W.M. van der Meer, MD, PhD; Cees G.M. Kallenberg, MD, PhD; Ron S. Weening, MD, PhD; Jaap T. van Dissel, MD, PhD; Lieke A.M. Sanders, MD, PhD; Paul F.W. Strengers, MD; Henriët Nienhuis, MSc; Peter Th.A. Schellekens, MD, PhD; for the Inter-University Working Party for the Study of Immune Deficiencies
In patients with hypogammaglobulinemia, doubling the standard dose of intravenous immunoglobulin significantly reduced the number and duration of infections.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):165-174. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00008
Scott K. Fridkin, MD; Jonathan R. Edwards, MS; Jeanne M. Courval, PhD; Holly Hill, MD, PhD; Fred C. Tenover, PhD; Rachel Lawton, MPH; Robert P. Gaynes, MD; John E. McGowan Jr., MD; for the Intensive Care Antimicrobial Resistance Epidemiology (ICARE) Project and the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Hospitals
Higher rates of vancomycin or third-generation cephalosporin use were associated with increased prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) infection, independent of other intensive care unit characteristics and the endemic VRE prevalence elsewhere in the study hospitals. Decreasing the use of these antimicrobial agents could reduce rates of VRE infection in intensive care units.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):175-183. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00009
Paul M. Ridker, MD, MPH; John Danesh, MBChB; Linda Youngman, PhD; Rory Collins, MBBS; Meir J. Stampfer, MD; Richard Peto, FRS; Charles H. Hennekens, MD
In a socioeconomically homogeneous population, there was limited evidence of association between Helicobacter pylori exposure and risk for future myocardial infarction.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):184-188. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00010
Lois Snyder, JD; Daniel P. Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD; for the Ethics and Human Rights Committee, American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine*
The American College of Physicians–American Society of Internal Medicine does not support the legalization of physician-assisted suicide. Legalization would undermine the patient–physician relationship and the trust necessary to sustain it; alter the medical profession's role in society; and endanger the value our society places on life, especially on the lives of disabled, incompetent, and vulnerable individuals.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):209-216. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00015
Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD; David M. Eisenberg, MD
At all points in the history of the United States, several medical options have been available to its citizens. The recent increased awareness of alternative medicine represents both a historic continuation of U.S. medical pluralism and a dramatic reconfiguration away from antagonism and toward a postmodern acknowledgment of diversity.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):189-195. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00011
A single definition of alternative medicine that tries to state “what it is” inevitably is not satisfying, since alternative healing includes a wide assortment of heterogeneous therapies and beliefs. A taxonomy of unconventional health care practices can help define alternative medicine and provide a conceptual framework for it.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):196-204. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00012
Deborah Cook, MD; Gordon Guyatt, MD
In this issue, Wilkes and Navickis present a meta-analysis of albumin versus crystalloids in critically ill patients. This meta-analysis has many strengths, but its weaknesses may limit the inferences that can be drawn from its results.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):205-208. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00013
David M. Eisenberg, MD; Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD; Christine Laine, MD, MPH; Frank Davidoff, MD
The special series on complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies, launched in this issue, is intended to provide physicians with synoptic reports of the state of the science for commonly used CAM therapies, thought pieces addressing the broader social aspects of CAM therapy, and discussion of topics pertaining to CAM research.
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John L. Coulehan, MD; Frederic W. Platt, MD; Barry Egener, MD; Richard Frankel, PhD; Chen-Tan Lin, MD; Beth Lown, MD; William H. Salazar, MD
In clinical medicine, empathy is the ability to understand the patient's situation, perspective, and feelings and to communicate that understanding to the patient. Certain well-timed words and sentences facilitate empathy during the clinical encounter. These “words that work” are the subject of this paper.
Ann Intern Med. 2001;135(3):221-227. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-135-3-200108070-00022
Helaina Laks Kravitz, MD; Richard L. Kravitz, MD
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James Westphal, MD; Mary Jo Fitzgerald, MD
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