The lifetime prevalence of mood disorders in women is approximately twice that of men. The
underlying causality of this gender difference is not yet understood. There is increasing …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Communication failure, a leading source of adverse events
in health care, was involved in approximately 75% of more than 7,000 root cause analysis …

Background: There is little information on the long-term effects and costs of a combination of
Sertraline and interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for the treatment of dysthymia in primary …

Originally formed to harbor freed slaves and Americans returning to Africa, Liberia once was
a land of hope. That was shattered by a long Civil War that shook its very foundation. …

OBJECTIVES: Systematic review of diagnostic accuracy of contrast enhanced coronary
computed tomography (CE-CCT). BACKGROUND: Noninvasive detection of coronary artery …

Objective To describe incorrect surgical procedures reported from Veterans Health
Administration (VHA) Medical Centers from 2001 to mid-2006 and provide proposed solutions for …

The authors have observed a series of patients with cervical monoradiculopathies due to
extradural compressive disease in whom clinical signs included relief of radicular pain with …

Background. The study objective was to confirm a previous finding that patients with stage III/IV
squamous head and neck cancer (SHNC) who smoke during radiotherapy (RT) …

Context Mislabeled laboratory specimens are a common source of harm to patients, such as
repeat phlebotomy; repeat diagnostic procedure, including tissue biopsy; delay in a …

BACKGROUND: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guideline for Hand
Hygiene in Health Care Settings was issued in 2002. In 2003, the Joint Commission on …