The New England Journal of Medicine reports an epidemiologic study of in-hospital CPR in older patients (65 years of age and older). The study identified over 430,000 Medicare beneficiaries who...

I'm posting tonight, relatively succinctly (yes, it's possible), on three different articles. This will be my last post for me, and I suspect Christian and Lyle, until after the Thanksgiving holiday. Happy Thanksgiving, and safe travels, to our...

JCO has a paper looking at prognostic acceptance in cancer patients, and its relationship with well-being. It's a Canadian study, involving 380 patients with advanced cancer (enrollment criteria including having an expected prognosis of under 6 months...

Clinical Chemistry has a fascinating case discussion about finding hydromorphone on a urine drug test in a hospice patient receiving high doses of morphine. It discusses hydromorphone as a minor metabolite of morphine, and one that can be found in...

Image via Wikipedia 60 Minutes lead story Sunday night was "The Cost of Dying" which discussed the often quoted Medicare spends XX billion on care for the last XX months of life.  (In this story they used $50B for the last 2 months, but there are...

This will be the last of the Mag Citrate posts for now. And after reading this monster you'll thank me. That said, these are all notable papers, each which I hope will be of interest to at least some of our readers: the progno-wonks, the...