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Should digoxin immune fab be administered based solely on reported ingested amount in acute digoxin poisoning?
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Minnesota Regional Poison Center, Department of Pharmacy, Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Department of Family Medicine and Biobehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus, Duluth, MN, USA. Electronic address:
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January 2025
Pharmacy Practice Department, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Culture and susceptibility results are essential to optimize antibiotic treatment. Prescribers rely on minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) interpretation to prescribe antibiotics. Many hospitals include MIC values with the interpretation in culture and susceptibility reports, where comparing MICs can be misleading (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHow do restrictions on opioid prescribing, harm reduction, and treatment coverage policies relate to opioid overdose deaths in the United States in 2013-2020? An application of a new state opioid policy scale.
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Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Population Health, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York University, New York City, NY, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Identifying the most effective state laws and provisions to reduce opioid overdose deaths remains critical.
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"We can't change that while they're in the hospital": Unveiling the manifestations of infrastructural violence and wound care for people who inject drugs.
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Department of Health, Behavior, and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.
Healthcare avoidance or delays for wounds and related skin- and soft-tissue infections are often attributed to negative interactions with medical providers. An infrastructural violence framework posits that healthcare infrastructure serves as a material channel for structural violence, maintaining inequities in healthcare experiences and outcomes. Infrastructural violence ensues when infrastructure is designed for some members or groups within a society while perpetuating violence among others.
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