More articles from Review

  • Overactive bladder: Evaluation and management in primary care
    Matt T. Rosenberg, MD and Roger R. Dmochowski, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2005, 72 (2) 149-156;

    An algorithm can help detect and manage this common problem.

  • A clinician’s guide to managing Helicobacter pylori infection
    Richard Saad, MD and William D. Chey, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2005, 72 (2) 109-124;

    A physician must choose carefully which patients to test, because widespread treatment is neither justified clinically nor cost-effective.

  • New cervical cancer screening strategy: Combined Pap and HPV testing
    Xian Wen Jin, MD, PhD, Kristine Zanotti, MD and Belinda Yen-Lieberman, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine February 2005, 72 (2) 141-148;

    Women age 30 and older can undergo combined Papanicolaou (Pap) and human papillomavirus (HPV) testing every 3 years instead of Pap testing alone every year, according to several professional societies.

  • Electrodiagnostic testing of nerves and muscles: When, why, and how to order
    Electrodiagnostic testing of nerves and muscles: When, why, and how to order
    Kamal R. Chémali, MD and Bryan Tsao, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2005, 72 (1) 37-48;

    Electrodiagnostic testing is a powerful tool, but when and how to use it is not always clear.

  • Diabetes and coronary artery disease: The role of stress myocardial perfusion imaging
    Frans J. Th. Wackers, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2005, 72 (1) 21-33;

    Stress myocardial perfusion imaging holds promise but needs to undergo cost-effectiveness analysis.

  • Benefits of more aggressive VTE prophylaxis in hospitalized medical patients
    L. Bernardo Menajovsky, MD, MS and John Spandorfer, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 947-960;

    Most hospitalized medical patients who should be receiving anticoagulants to prevent VTE according to current guidelines are not getting them, or are receiving subtherapeutic doses.

  • A guide to assessing decision-making capacity
    Roger C. Jones, MD and Timothy Holden, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 971-975;

    Physicians must care for many patients who are neither fully capable nor totally incapable of understanding and expressing choices about their treatment. We present an algorithm for assessing decision-making capacity.

  • Epidural steroids for back and leg pain: Mechanism of action and efficacy
    Epidural steroids for back and leg pain: Mechanism of action and efficacy
    Robert F. McLain, MD, Leonardo Kapural, MD, PhD and Nagy A. Mekhail, MD, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine December 2004, 71 (12) 961-970;

    Epidural steroid injections may relieve the patient’s pain while healing occurs. Who should receive this therapy, and what kind of benefit can they reasonably expect?

  • Radiologic imaging in rhinosinusitis
    Pete S. Batra, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 886-888;

    Imaging may be necessary for rhinosinusitis that is refractory, chronic, recurrent, or complicated.

  • A guide to informed consent for clinician-investigators
    Katrina A. Bramstedt, PhD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 2004, 71 (11) 907-910;

    Informed consent is a process, not a form. It is a legal and ethical safeguard to ensure that subjects enter studies voluntarily and fully informed.

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