Prescriber preferences for behavioural economics interventions to improve treatment of acute respiratory infections: a discrete choice experiment.

Objective: To elicit prescribers' preferences for behavioural economics interventions designed to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, and compare these to actual behaviour.

Design: Discrete choice experiment (DCE).

Setting: 47 primary care centres in Boston and Los Angeles.

Hearing Outcomes after Revision Stapedectomy Managed with Total Ossicular Prostheses.

Objectives: (1) To describe the use of total ossicular prostheses (TOPs) in the setting of stapedectomy requiring an incus bypass procedure. (2) To analyze the short- and long-term audiometric results of TOP utilization in the setting of stapedectomy for an incus bypass procedure.

Study Design: Case series with chart review.

Direct Vasodilators and Sympatholytic Agents.

Direct vasodilators and sympatholytic agents were some of the first antihypertensive medications discovered and utilized in the past century. However, side effect profiles and the advent of newer antihypertensive drug classes have reduced the use of these agents in recent decades. Outcome data and large randomized trials supporting the efficacy of these medications are limited; however, in general the blood pressure-lowering effect of these agents has repeatedly been shown to be comparable to other more contemporary drug classes.