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• • ·Length of hospital stay for elderly people is substantially higher in the NHS compared with Kaiser Permanente and US Medicare programmes

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    David P Sklar

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• • ·Do For-profit health plans restrict access to high-cost procedures?

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    Antonio J Trujillo

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• • ·A community-based disease management program for postmyocardial infarction reduces hospital readmissions compared with usual care

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    Jalal K Ghali

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• • ·Healthcare quality improvement programme improves monitoring of people with diabetes

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    Petra Denig

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• • ·Patient satisfaction questionnaires equally acceptable to patients

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    Stephen J Aragon, Michael C Edwards

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• • ·Nurse-led intervention increases smoking cessation among people with coronary heart disease

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    David W Brown

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• • ·Framingham equations overestimate risk of coronary heart disease mortality in British males

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    Mandeep Singh

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• • ·Risk of venous thromboembolism greatest within two weeks of long-haul flight

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    Fabrice Paganin

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• • ·High intensity counselling or behavioural interventions can result in moderate weight loss

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    Eamonn Slevin

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• • ·Survival of people with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is not improved by equipping first responders with an automated external defibrillator

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    Judith Finn, Ian Jacobs

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• • ·Biennial screening mammography is cost effective in healthy women aged over 65 years

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    Patricia A Carney

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• • ·Breast-feeding has little effect on blood pressure in later life

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    Undurti N Das

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• • ·Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation of office ventilation systems reduces work-related mucosal and respiratory symptoms

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    Klaus P Kühn, Iris F Chaberny

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• • ·Universal screening does not reduce the prevalence of visual impairment in older people

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    Robert W Enzenauer

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• • ·Common blood pressure treatments lower the risk of major cardiovascular events

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    Flávio Danni Fuchs

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• • ·Addition of artesunate to standard antimalarial drugs reduces treatment failure

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    Timothy ME Davis

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• • ·Cannabinoids do not reduce objective measurements in muscle spasticity, but people with multiple sclerosis perceive some benefit

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    Franjo Grotenhermen

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• • ·Magnesium sulphate given before birth does not significantly reduce death or cerebral palsy in premature babies, but may improve motor dysfunction

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    Alistair Jan Gunn, Laura Bennet

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• • ·Echinacea purpurea is ineffective for upper respiratory tract infections in children

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    Arch G Mainous

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• • ·Risk of AIDS increases in children aged 2 years and older with CD4 T cell percentage less than 15%

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    William J Moss, Deborah Persaud

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• • ·Major bleeding episodes occur in people receiving anticoagulant therapy for venous thromboembolism

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    Christoph Pechlaner

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• • ·Treatment of unilateral visual impairment in preschool children modestly improves visual acuity

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    Maria S Castanes

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