Co-prescribing naloxone does not increase liability risk

Increased statin prescribing does not lower pneumonia risk.

BACKGROUND Investigators have attributed protective effects of statins against pneumonia and other infections. However, these reports are based on observational data where treatments are not assigned randomly. We aimed to determine if the protective effects of statins against pneumonia are due to nonrandom treatment assignment. METHODS We built a cohort consisting of 124 695 Medicare benefici...

Radical Prostatectomy Does Not Increase the Risk of Inguinal Hernia

Human Insulin Does Not Increase Bladder Cancer Risk

BACKGROUND Whether human insulin can induce bladder cancer is rarely studied. METHODS The reimbursement databases of all Taiwanese diabetic patients from 1996 to 2009 were retrieved from the National Health Insurance. An entry date was set at 1 January 2004 and a total of 785,234 patients with type 2 diabetes were followed up for bladder cancer incidence until the end of 2009. Users of piogli...

Naloxone does not influence breathing during isoflurane anaesthesia.

Naloxone influences ventilation, probably by an action on endogenous opioids, in several conditions in which ventilation is reduced or impaired. Ventilatory depression is a feature of anaesthesia; some of the actions of anaesthetic drugs have been attributed to endogenous opioids. Naloxone was given to two groups of patients to investigate the possibility that ventilatory depression might be re...

Why Your EHR May Increase Malpractice Liability Risk

One of his key recommendations is to conduct your own EHR selection process. In other words, don’t choose the EHR a hospital or larger health system is pressuring you to select, choose the EHR that is best for your practice and your patients. “The theme is that you’ve got to basically go toe-to-toe with these guys and say, ‘I’ve got to protect the integrity of the clinical content ...,’” said S...