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Questions discussed in this category

How would you treat a patient with osteoarthritis of just one joint of the hand?
Would you just treat the affected joint of the entire L hand? In case of treating just the affected joint, please explain your contouring and mobiliza...
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In patients on long-term proton pump inhibitors for GERD with stable symptoms, do you routinely attempt discontinuation or continue indefinitely given relapse risk?
If you trial discontinuation, what is your approach to tapering? 
3 Answers available
How do you counsel patients who are interested in using kratom for chronic pain management?
1 Answer available
At what eGFR do you typically refer for vein mapping for a patient with advanced CKD who prefers hemodialysis when indicated?
2 Answers available
How do you decide when to initiate or restart diuretics in a cirrhotic patient with ascites if they are receiving a therapeutic paracentesis?
2 Answers available
In middle-aged adults with TSH 5–10 mIU/L and no symptoms, would you start levothyroxine or monitor, and does your threshold change with cardiovascular risk factors?
1 Answer available
Do you perform pap smears as part of the surveillance of patients with a history of cervical or vaginal cancers who had radiation as part of their treatment?
1 Answer available
What is your medication of choice when considering outpatient alcohol withdrawal management (diazepam vs chlordiazepoxide vs lorazepam)?
For your recommended medication, are you doing a scheduled set dose, or is it primarily symptom-driven? 
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How do you determine when ongoing outpatient treatment is no longer beneficial, and it may be appropriate to transition a patient to another provider?
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How would you manage a patient who presents with hair loss that began after they started a GLP-1 inhibitor?
1 Answer available
How do you manage anticoagulation/antiplatelet therapies with strong indications for uninterrupted therapy in setting of urgent procedures?
For example, anticoagulation for recent, significant PE or dual antiplatelet therapy for recent MI, but requiring urgent procedures such as biopsy of ...
4 Answers available
Would you biopsy calcified lung nodules and or lymphadenopathy that have shown stability over a 2-year period, in a bid to rule out sarcoidosis?
1 Answer available
How do you counsel patients with metabolic syndrome who decline statin therapy and have low coronary calcium scores regarding their long-term CVD risk?
3 Answers available
In what situations would you recommend metformin in addition to aggressive lifestyle interventions for patients with prediabetes and obesity?
Echouffo-Tcheugui et al., PMID 37039787
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What is your approach to the use of GLP-1 agonists in older adults with diabetes with or at risk of sarcopenia?
3 Answers available
How many days prior to surgery do you recommend stopping SGLT2 inhibitors and when is it safe to resume therapy?
2 Answers available
What is your approach to the management of unprovoked distal DVTs?
Given the unprovoked nature, do you favor indefinite anticoagulation? Would a presentation with bilateral distal DVTs or other concerns for thrombophi...
1 Answer available
What is your general approach to an immunocompetent patient with chronic, non-infectious diarrhea?
1 Answer available
Would you recommend a GLP-1 agonist as an option to reduce the risk of dementia in patients with a strong family history?
Seminer et al., PMID 40193122
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For patients over 70 with elevated ASCVD risk but no prior cardiovascular events, do you ever recommend continuing or initiating low-dose aspirin?
Aspirin Use to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Preventive Medication
1 Answer available
What is your systolic blood pressure target for patients over 80 with frailty and multiple comorbidities?
1 Answer available
Do you recommend that your patients with COPD avoid gabapentin or pregabalin entirely, given the increased rate of exacerbations noted in patients on these medications?
Rahman et al., PMID 38224592
1 Answer available
When discontinuing Denosumab after more than 2-3 years of therapy, when do you recommend giving the first dose of zoledronic acid?
3 Answers available
What are some practical tips in distinguishing between metabolic bone disease due to chronic kidney disease and osteoporosis?
1 Answer available
How effective have you found acupuncture for treatment of chronic migraine?
3 Answers available
Do you routinely use cefdinir for the treatment of common infections diagnosed in the outpatient setting such as CAP, uncomplicated UTIs?
1 Answer available
How do you counsel patients on the risks and benefits of antidepressant use during pregnancy?
How do you approach shared decision-making when patients express hesitancy about medication exposure in utero? What is your approach when a patient is...
3 Answers available
Would you pursue a colonoscopy for a patient in their 20s with constipation and rectal bleeding if they had a first-degree relative who died young from a "carcinoid tumor"?
How do you risk-stratify this otherwise low-risk young patient given the lack of specific guidelines for this rare cancer? Additionally, at what point...
1 Answer available
Do you have to extend treatment for acute Lyme disease if a patient is on high dose steroids for another indication?
2 Answers available
How can I incorporate neuromuscular ultrasound into my practice with limited prior experience?
1 Answer available
What recommendations do you provide to patients on isotretinoin about timing of tattoos?
1 Answer available
What is your approach to iron supplementation in patients with an active infection?
Are there situations in which you still feel comfortable giving IV iron? If not, do you consider PO iron?
1 Answer available
What is your preferred first-line treatment for chronic fatigue in patients with long COVID-19?
9 Answers available
How soon after a fracture would it be safe to start anti-resorptive therapy?
2 Answers available
What are your thoughts on the results of the ALONE-AF trial and the safety profile of discontinuing anticoagulation post-ablation, provided there is no atrial arrhythmia recurrence?
If it's reasonable to stop anticoagulation, how frequently should patients be monitored for AFib/atrial arrhythmia recurrence?
1 Answer available
Have any studies shown that testosterone replacement therapy lowers the incidence of prostate cancer in hypogonadal men, or is the evidence still largely neutral?
1 Answer available
How do you use NT-proBNP in patients with chronic kidney disease or end-stage kidney disease, given that these conditions can affect NT-proBNP levels?
1 Answer available
Would you use oral cefixime as an alternative treatment for early syphilis in cases of benzathine penicillin G shortages?
Klementova et al., PMID 40795115
1 Answer available
What is your antipsychotic of choice and general titration regimen in the outpatient setting for a patient with dementia and behavioral disturbances (assuming reversible causes such as urinary retention, constipation, etc. have been addressed)?
2 Answers available
Do you have a preference between an ACEI and ARB when initiating therapy for a patient with diabetic kidney disease, albuminuria, and hypertension?
7 Answers available
Should we be recommending a specific daily protein intake to prevent sarcopenia in geriatric patients, or do you find it more beneficial to focus on encouraging activity within their mobility limitations to preserve muscle mass?
1 Answer available
How do you approach balancing the treatment of urinary incontinence with anticholinergic medications with the use of cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia?
1 Answer available
How do you counsel older adults regarding the use, dosing, and safety of CBD-containing products for insomnia?
1 Answer available
How do you counsel patients with depression about the role exercise may play in alleviating depressive symptoms?
How do you educate patients about the role exercise may play in depression treatment? What type, frequency, and intensity of exercise do you recommend...
2 Answers available
Is there a role for functional medicine approaches in psychiatric treatment?
How do you critically assess the evidence base for functional medicine approaches? How do you respond when patients specifically request functional me...
1 Answer available
Outside of their use in performance anxiety, have you tried or found benefit with a daily beta blocker for generalized anxiety?
Especially if a patient is intolerant to SSRI/SNRI, TCA, etc. 
1 Answer available
Do you routinely adjust your interpretation of SLUMS and/or MOCA tests in patients depending on their level of education?
1 Answer available
Do you start bisphosphonates after tapering off menopausal hormone therapy to prevent the rapid decline of bone mineral density?
1 Answer available
How would you counsel a woman with a strong family history of thrombosis about oral contraceptives?
Would you recommend avoiding estrogen-containing OCPs? Would you test for APLS to evaluate for additional thrombotic risk factors? While not heredita...
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What additional workup would you perform to evaluate a new onset of spontaneous hemarthrosis?
Young adult male previously without bleeding diathesis and no family history. Platelet count, PT, and PTT are normal. Also normal factor 8, 9, 12, 7, ...
1 Answer available
Can tamoxifen be safely prescribed for breast cancer patients with cirrhosis?
4 Answers available
How do you address social determinants of health that impact patients (e.g., housing instability, food insecurity) but for which there are no immediate resources available?
1 Answer available
Do you routinely recommend transition to dual PO antibiotic coverage for strep species and MRSA, for patients with purulent cellulitis and in the absence of culture data?
2 Answers available
What factors influence your decision to start salt tablets, urea, or a vaptan first in the management of a patient diagnosed with SIADH?
3 Answers available
Do you recommend initiating treatment with an SGLT2 inhibitor or semaglutide first for a patient with obesity and heart failure with preserved ejection fraction?
Would you initiate both medications at the same time?
1 Answer available
What is your go-to strategy for non-opioid management of chronic low back pain in patients with limited access to physical therapy or behavioral health?
1 Answer available
How do you approach balancing the risks and benefits of elective surgery with patients who have multiple co-morbidities (e.g., frailty, chronic kidney disease, and COPD), when standard risk calculators do not capture the full complexity of their condition?
2 Answers available
Do you have safety concerns when prescribing GLP-1 medications in patients on corticosteroids or immunosuppressive therapy?
This question is part of our collaboration with ACR Convergence 2025 to preview a session from this year's meeting. This question is inspired by the u...
1 Answer available
How do you consider sending fungal studies in a patient with pneumonia?
When do you have consider sending them as part of your initial workup?
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Do you consider using buspirone for the management of anxiety in older patients?
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How do you weigh the risks and benefits of GLP-1 RAs in patients over age 65 specifically in regards to loss of muscle mass and osteoporosis?
How do you counsel patients about these risks? This question is part of our collaboration with ACR Convergence 2025 to preview a session from this ye...
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What is your approach to a positive PPD or IGRA in a patient with well-controlled HIV without significant TB risk factors?
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Do you have any concerns about lower extremity compression (e.g., compression stockings, intermittent pneumatic compression, etc.) worsening ascites in a patient with portal hypertension?
1 Answer available
What is your approach to preventing exercise-associated hyponatremia?
3 Answers available
How do you approach the treatment of patients with Ehlers-Danlos hypermobile type with chronic muscle spasms with minimal exertion?
2 Answers available
How many days prior to elective major surgery do you recommend holding oral GLP 1 R agonist therapy?
4 Answers available
Do you recommend fluid restriction in addition to other management strategies for patients with hyponatremia due to SIADH?
6 Answers available
What therapies do you recommend for patients with limited life expectancy (<3 months) but whose depression is significantly reducing their quality of life?
2 Answers available
How do you integrate HIV (+) serostatus into a patient's ASCVD if they would not otherwise qualify for a statin either for primary or secondary prophylaxis?
1 Answer available
When do you prefer bariatric surgery such as sleeve gastrectomy or gastric bypass over an initial trial of a GLP-1 receptor agonist in patients with severe obesity and painful knee or hip osteoarthritis?
This question is part of our collaboration with ACR Convergence 2025 to preview a session from this year's meeting. This question is inspired by the u...
1 Answer available
When stopping denosumab and transitioning to PO bisphosphonate, do you wait for 6 months after the last denosumab injection to start PO bisphosphonate?
2 Answers available
What is the next best osteoporosis treatment option for patients who completed 2 years of teriparatide, but has contraindication to bisphosphosnate therapy (e.g. history of atypical femur fracture)?
1 Answer available
What is your strategy for counseling patients who don't qualify for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening under the current guidelines but are concerned with its increasing incidence at a younger age?
USPSTF Colorectal Cancer: Screening Recommendation
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What is your approach to a situation where DILI is suspected secondary to an important medication (e.g., anticoagulation, antibiotics, etc.), but the diagnosis is uncertain and the liver injury is relatively mild?
Are there situations in which you would continue the possible offending agent with close monitoring?
1 Answer available
Would you use a parathyroid hormone analog for treatment of osteoporosis in a patient with mildly elevated AlkPhos of unclear etiology?
1 Answer available
Do 5HT4 agonists such as Metoclopramide actually lead to improvement in symptoms for patients with diabetes related gastroparesis?
1 Answer available
What is your approach to bisphosphonate use in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease and osteoporosis?
1 Answer available
During treatment of severe osteoporosis with PTH analogs (abaloparatide), would a rise in alkaline phosphatase level >200 (in the setting of normal GGT) warrant discontinuation of medication?
There is concern for elevation in alkaline phosphatase as a precursor for bone pathology, such as an increase in risk of bone malignancy, potentially ...
1 Answer available
Do you provide empiric doxycycline for Lyme Disease to asymptomatic patients after a tick bite who haven't developed Erythema migrans or are not sure it was an Ixodes tick?
2 Answers available
What is your preferred laboratory test to assess treatment response or infection resolution in patients with bacterial pneumonia?
For example, do you find trending WBC, procalcitonin, CRP, etc., more or less helpful?
3 Answers available
Is there an age cutoff where you consider the risks of monoclonal antibody therapy outweigh any potential benefit(s) in early-onset dementia?
1 Answer available
Would you continue or stop anticoagulation for a DVT/PE in a patient with active cancer who has completed 6 months of therapy?
Mahé et al., PMID 40162636
2 Answers available
Is there a role for use of GLP-1/GIP receptor agonists in the management of substance use disorders, whether or not they meet other inclusion criteria for their use?
2 Answers available
What do you think about using conventional thoracic imaging methods (e.g., X-ray, CT, etc.) to determine if a pleural effusion is of adequate size to consider thoracentesis?
3 Answers available
When would you consider long-term cardiac monitoring to look for atrial fibrillation in patients with mitral stenosis given their baseline elevated risk for atrial fibrillation and thrombosis?
2 Answers available
How do you consider and approach transition to hospice in a patient with HFrEF who does not appear to tolerate GDMT?
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What is your approach to duration of fidaxomicin in a patient receiving treatment for first C difficile infection while also receiving concurrent antibiotics for an infection? 
Do you extend the course of fidaxomicin past initial 10 days to at least 3-7 days after completion of antibiotics?
1 Answer available
What do you think about chronic suppressive therapy for HSV-2 in a patient with positive antibodies but no prior clinical outbreak?
Would you expect the presence of antibodies to indicate either immunity from contracting the infection, or otherwise risk of transmitting a latent inf...
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How do you counsel someone about metformin use for type 2 diabetes mellitus who is also on a GLP-1 agonist and achieved goal HbA1c, but prefers not to be on metformin anymore?
1 Answer available
What are some practical ways to incorporate cardiac POCUS in the primary care setting?
For example, do you find it most useful for outpatient disease assessment/management, consideration of further imaging or specialist referral, or tria...
1 Answer available
How do you decide the maximum amount of volume to remove during a therapeutic thoracentesis?
Do you use the traditional strict limit of 1.5 L, or do you consider removing more volume if a patient appears to tolerate it?
1 Answer available
In patients with confirmed hypercortisolism with a high/normal unsuppressed ACTH who have both a pituitary adenoma and adrenal adenoma identified on imaging, can you reliably use DHEA-S to determine the source of cortisol production?
2 Answers available
What is your risk/benefit analysis when deciding on the appropriateness and timing for discontinuation of systemic anticoagulation in patients who underwent ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with CHADS2VASc score >2?
1 Answer available
Do you take any special considerations when working up a pregnant patient for secondary causes of hypertension?
1 Answer available
What is the preferred first-line non-insulin agent in patients with ketosis-prone diabetes during "remission" and evidence of preserved beta cell function?
2 Answers available
What factors would lead you to extend the duration of antithyroid drug therapy in a patient with Graves' disease who is clinically euthyroid at 12 months but has risk factors for recurrence?
3 Answers available
What duration of antibiotic therapy do you use for a loculated parapneumonic effusion that does not meet criteria for empyema?
6 Answers available
Do you recommend routinely monitoring pancreatic markers such as amylase and lipase while receiving GLP1 R agonist or dual agonist therapies to determine their risk of pancreatitis?
2 Answers available
Do you counsel a mother to avoid certain food in her diet if she is still breast feeding and her child has confirmed IgE mediated food allergies?
1 Answer available
Would you recommend starting an SGLT2 inhibitor in a proteinuric CKD patient with chronic asymptomatic bacteriuria?
2 Answers available
How do you approach the management of a patient with symptomatic iron deficiency anemia who is intolerant of iron?
Such as a patient who cannot tolerate oral iron and has had a anaphylaxis to intravenous iron
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Papers discussed in this category

Medical sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2018-09-21
Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN)-Review of Therapeutic Utilization.
The Journal of clinical investigation, 2021 Dec 15
The intersection of COVID-19 and autoimmunity.
Molecular systems biology, 2023 Mar 15
A methylation clock model of mild SARS-CoV-2 infection provides insight into immune dysregulation.
BMJ open, 2024 May 13
Low-dose naltrexone for post-COVID fatigue syndrome: a study protocol for a double-blind, randomised trial in British Columbia.
Ann Intern Med, 2019 Jul 30
Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and the Risk for Severe Urinary Tract Infections: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
Annals of allergy, asthma & immunology : official publication of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, 2021 Feb 24
Provider recommendations and maternal practices when providing breast milk to children with immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy.
Circulation research, 2020 Jun 18
Population-Based Screening for Atrial Fibrillation.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2024 Aug 29
Effect of Screening for Undiagnosed Atrial Fibrillation on Stroke Prevention.
European journal of endocrinology, 2008 Jan
TSH-receptor autoimmunity in Graves' disease after therapy with anti-thyroid drugs, surgery, or radioiodine: a 5-year prospective randomized study.
N Engl J Med,
Intrapleural use of tissue plasminogen activator and DNase in pleural infection.
Diabetes care, 2016-11
Randomized Controlled Study of Metformin and Sitagliptin on Long-term Normoglycemia Remission in African American Patients With Hyperglycemic Crises.
Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America, 2022 Nov 04
Remission in Ketosis-Prone Diabetes.
Journal of clinical lipidology, 2022 Sep 11
Assessment and management of statin-associated muscle symptoms (SAMS): A clinical perspective from the National Lipid Association.
N Engl J Med, 2021 Aug 27
Empagliflozin in Heart Failure with a Preserved Ejection Fraction.
JACC. Heart failure, 2022 Mar
Baseline Characteristics of Patients With HF With Mildly Reduced and Preserved Ejection Fraction: DELIVER Trial.
The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Aug 25
Semaglutide in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity.
The New England journal of medicine, 2024 Nov 16
Tirzepatide for Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction and Obesity.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2023 Apr 19
2023 ACC Expert Consensus Decision Pathway on Management of Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: A Report of the American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee.
Drug and alcohol dependence, 2024 Sep 07
Potential role of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists in substance use disorder: A systematic review of randomized trials.
JAMA psychiatry, 2025 Apr 01
Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adults With Alcohol Use Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun
ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Workup of Pleural Effusion or Pleural Disease.
AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02
Differentiation of pleural effusions from parenchymal opacities: accuracy of bedside chest radiography.
The New England journal of medicine, 2023 Aug 17
Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
Thorax, 2009 Oct
BTS guidelines for the management of community acquired pneumonia in adults: update 2009.
Heart failure reviews, 2021 Apr 09
Lung ultrasound-guided management to reduce hospitalization in chronic heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
International journal of cardiology, 2017 Aug 01
Pulmonary congestion evaluated by lung ultrasound predicts decompensation in heart failure outpatients.
Cardiovascular ultrasound, 2006 Aug 31
Evaluation of ultrasound lung comets by hand-held echocardiography.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences, 2023 Jun 16
Nutritional Interventions: Dietary Protein Needs and Influences on Skeletal Muscle of Older Adults.
Mayo Clinic proceedings, 2000 Jan
The biology of aging.
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2000 Jun
Epidemiology of sarcopenia.
Kidney international. Supplement, 2002 Dec
Comparative effects of ACE inhibition and angiotensin II receptor blockade in the prevention of renal damage.
JAMA internal medicine, 2014 May
Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor blockers on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular deaths, and cardiovascular events in patients with diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis.
Journal of addiction medicine, 2020 May/Jun
The ASAM Clinical Practice Guideline on Alcohol Withdrawal Management.
Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), 2014-06
The "Prediction of Alcohol Withdrawal Severity Scale" (PAWSS): systematic literature review and pilot study of a new scale for the prediction of complicated alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
American journal of preventive medicine, 2015-10
Emergency Department Visits and Overdose Deaths From Combined Use of Opioids and Benzodiazepines.
JACC. Heart failure, 2024 Aug 31
Natriuretic Peptides, Kidney Function, and Clinical Outcomes in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction.
The New England journal of medicine, 2025 Mar 29
Extended Reduced-Dose Apixaban for Cancer-Associated Venous Thromboembolism.
The New England journal of medicine, 2013-01-17
Meningoencephalitis from Borrelia miyamotoi in an immunocompromised patient.
Expert opinion on drug safety, 2016 Jan 25
Revisiting doxycycline in pregnancy and early childhood--time to rebuild its reputation?
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2022 Dec 17
Inpatient Zoledronic Acid and Integrated Orthopedic and Fracture Liaison Services Improve Osteoporosis Treatment Rates.
J Bone Miner Res, 2024 Aug 21
Zoledronic acid for hip fracture during initial hospitalization.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2023 Oct 18
Safety of Inpatient Zoledronic Acid in the Immediate Postfracture Setting.
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2006-07-19
Azapirones for generalized anxiety disorder.
Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences, 2010 Feb 01
Randomized, single-blind, trial of sertraline and buspirone for treatment of elderly patients with generalized anxiety disorder.
Basic & clinical pharmacology & toxicology, 2023 Jun 20
Serotonin syndrome-A focused review.
Ochsner journal, 2013 Winter
Serotonin syndrome.
Diabetes research and clinical practice, 2021 Mar 08
GLP-1 receptor agonists and SGLT2 inhibitors for older people with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of diabetes, 2025 Jun
Monitoring Sarcopenia With Incretin Receptor Activator Treatment.
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, 2025 Mar 09
Denosumab discontinuation in the clinic: implications of rebound bone turnover and emerging strategies to prevent bone loss and fractures.
Cureus, 2023 Oct 16
Comparison of the Efficacy of Metformin and Lifestyle Modification for the Primary Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
American journal of hematology, 2024 Jan 29
Expert consensus guidelines: Intravenous iron uses, formulations, administration, and management of reactions.
Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2024 Jun 12
AGA Clinical Practice Update on Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia: Expert Review.
American family physician, 2022 Sep
Risk of Infection With Intravenous Iron Infusion.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2024 Jun 25
Intravenous Iron Repletion for Patients With Heart Failure and Iron Deficiency: JACC State-of-the-Art Review.
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019 Sep 1
Microbiological Laboratory Testing in the Diagnosis of Fungal Infections in Pulmonary and Critical Care Practice. An Official American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
Chest, 2023 Oct 07
A Diagnostic Approach to Fungal Pneumonia: An Infectious Diseases Perspective.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2024 Mar 05
Guide to Utilization of the Microbiology Laboratory for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: 2024 Update by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology (ASM).
AIDS (London, England), 2025 May 23
Risks for sudden cardiac and undetermined cause of death among people with HIV in the REPRIEVE primary cardiovascular prevention trial.
JAMA, 2011-09-28
Efficacy and comparative effectiveness of atypical antipsychotic medications for off-label uses in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery, 2024 Oct 29
Multisociety clinical practice guidance for the safe use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists in the perioperative period.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy, 2025 Aug 07
Cefixime versus benzathine penicillin G for the treatment of early syphilis-a randomized, controlled open label trial.
Nature reviews. Urology, 2022 Dec 21
The testosterone paradox of advanced prostate cancer: mechanistic insights and clinical implications.
Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28
American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.
MMWR. Recommendations and reports : Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Recommendations and reports, 2024 Aug 08
U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use, 2024.
Drugs & aging, 2001
Hypertension in the Very Elderly Trial (HYVET): protocol for the main trial.
Circulation research, 2019 Mar 29
Hypertension Management in Older and Frail Older Patients.
Frontiers in neuroscience, 2023 Sep 08
The durable effect of acupuncture for episodic migraine: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
Journal of neurology, 2020 Aug 24
Efficacy of acupuncture for migraine prophylaxis: a trial sequential meta-analysis.
JAMA, 2020 Nov 03
Diagnosis and Treatment of Lower Extremity Venous Thromboembolism: A Review.
BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2022 Nov 23
Rivaroxaban treatment for six weeks versus three months in patients with symptomatic isolated distal deep vein thrombosis: randomised controlled trial.
Circulation, 2023 Nov 30
2023 ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline for the Diagnosis and Management of Atrial Fibrillation: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.
JAMA, 2025 Oct 14
Long-Term Anticoagulation Discontinuation After Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: The ALONE-AF Randomized Clinical Trial.
PloS one, 2021 Jun 24
Discontinuation of oral anticoagulation therapy after successful atrial fibrillation ablation: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies.
The New England journal of medicine, 1985-04-04
Successful parenteral penicillin therapy of established Lyme arthritis.
The Laryngoscope, 2017-06
Steroid use in Lyme disease-associated facial palsy is associated with worse long-term outcomes.
Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2020 Nov 29
Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), American Academy of Neurology (AAN), and American College of Rheumatology (ACR): 2020 Guidelines for the Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Lyme Disease.
Muscle & nerve, 2012-08
Evidence-based guideline: neuromuscular ultrasound for the diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome.
Muscle Nerve, 2024 Mar
Neuromuscular ultrasound: Impact on diagnosis and management.
Muscle & nerve, 2018 Sep 11
Neuromuscular ultrasound in electrically non-localizable ulnar neuropathy.
Neurology, 2014 Aug 27
Sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic ultrasound in the diagnosis of phrenic neuropathy.
Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], 2016 Jun 14
The field size matters: low dose external beam radiotherapy for thumb carpometacarpal osteoarthritis : Importance of field size.

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