Comprehensive therapy
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Primary care physicians can intervene to reduce perioperative complications due to comorbid medical illness in patients hospitalized with hip fracture. We review the role of the primary care physician in the treatment and prevention of perioperative morbidity and mortality.
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This is a review of current concepts in lung cancer prevention including primary or smoking prevention, secondary prevention or smoking cessation and tertiary prevention or chemoprevention of lung cancer.
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Comprehensive therapy · Jan 2002
ReviewGuidelines for community-acquired pneumonia in the US and Canada: a practical approach to antibiotic selection.
Several US and Canadian national organizations have published guidelines for antibiotic therapy of patients with community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This review paper will present the clinician with a practical approach to antibiotic selection based on current guidelines.
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Advances in biopharmaceutical technology have spawned new drug delivery devices and mechanisms. Noninvasive methods, including iontophoresis and transmucosal drug delivery, have improved treatment of certain patient population. Their use is discussed in the following paper.