<p>Is Echocardiography Mandatory for All <em>Streptococcus gallolyticus</em> Subsp. <em>pasteurianus</em> Bacteremia?</p>

Antimicrobial stewardship programs: mandatory for all ICUs

Antimicrobial stewardship involves a multifaceted approach aimed at combating the emergence of antibiotic resistance, improving patient outcomes, and controlling healthcare costs by optimizing antimicrobial use. Therefore, stewardship is of great importance and relevance in the ICU. The rapid pace of escalating antibiotic resistance and the widespread use of antibiotics in critical care require...

Is ascending urethrogram mandatory for all urethral strictures?

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of ascending urethrogram in decision making for patients with suspected urethral strictures. METHODS Medical Records were reviewed of male patients presenting with lower urinary tract symptoms who were subjected to ascending urethrogram and selected cases for cystourethroscopy from January 2001 to December 2002. Cystourethroscopy was performed on those patients...

Influenza Immunization for All Health Care Personnel: Keep It Mandatory.

The purpose of this statement is to reaffirm the American Academy of Pediatrics' support for a mandatory influenza immunization policy for all health care personnel. With an increasing number of organizations requiring influenza vaccination, coverage among health care personnel has risen to 75% in the 2013 to 2014 influenza season but still remains below the Healthy People 2020 objective of 90%...

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of prior cloud work: The PIs have built Depot, a cloud storage system that minimizes trust assumptions. Depot tolerates buggy or malicious behavior by any number of clients or servers, yet it provides safety and liveness guarantees to correct clients. Depot provides these guarantees using a two-layer architecture. First, Depot ensures that the updates observed by correct nodes are consistently ...

The ethics of mandatory HIV testing of all pregnant women.