Practice guidelines provide standards of care, yet Dr. John Marshall argues they can become cookie-cutter solutions that hinder physicians from taking innovative steps toward treatment advances. Medscape Hematology-Oncology
Electronic messages to patients may initially increase colorectal cancer screening rates, and outreach to those with an expired order for colonoscopy may be modestly effective. Medscape Medical News
The Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project actively engaged the community in helping to develop ethical frameworks for rationing scarce health-related resources during a severe influenza pandemic. Journal of Participatory Medicine
A meta-analysis suggests that perioperative supplemental oxygen therapy should be used along with maintenance of normothermia, meticulous glycemic control, and preservation of intravascular volume. Medscape Medical News
