Table of Contents

June 4, 2002; 136 (11)

Articles

  • Mechanism of Cocaine-Induced Hyperthermia in Humans

    • Craig G. Crandall,
    • Wanpen Vongpatanasin,
    • and Ronald G. Victor
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:785-791

    In humans, impaired heat dissipation is a major mechanism by which cocaine elevates body temperature. When healthy, cocaine-naive persons are subjected to passive heating, pretreatment with even a small dose of intranasal cocaine impairs sweating and cutaneous vasodilation (the major autonomic adjustments to thermal stress) and heat perception (the key trigger for behavioral adjustments).

  • Chlorhexidine Compared with Povidone-Iodine Solution for Vascular Catheter–Site Care: A Meta-Analysis

    • Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk,
    • David L. Veenstra,
    • Benjamin A. Lipsky,
    • and Sanjay Saint
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:792-801

    Bloodstream infections are significantly reduced in patients with central vascular lines who receive chlorhexidine gluconate versus povidone-iodine for skin site disinfection. Use of chlorhexidine gluconate rather than povidone-iodine for catheter-site care is a simple and effective means of reducing vascular catheter–related infections.

  • Clinical Assessment of Function among Women with a Recent Cerebrovascular Event: A Self-Reported versus Performance-Based Measure

    • Pamela L. Owens,
    • Elizabeth H. Bradley,
    • Sarah M. Horwitz,
    • Catherine M. Viscoli,
    • Walter N. Kernan,
    • Lawrence M. Brass,
    • Philip M. Sarrel,
    • and Ralph I. Horwitz
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:802-811

    Self-reported and performance-based measures of function can differ in women who have experienced a recent cerebrovascular event. Although more difficult to collect, results of a performance-based measure may provide important information about long-term health outcomes.

Brief Communications

  • The Reliability of Medical Record Review for Estimating Adverse Event Rates

    • Eric J. Thomas,
    • Stuart R. Lipsitz,
    • David M. Studdert,
    • and Troyen A. Brennan
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:812-816

    Estimates of adverse event rates from medical record review, including those reported by the U.S. Institute of Medicine in its 2000 report on medical errors, are highly sensitive to the degree of consensus and confidence among reviewers.

Academia and Clinic

  • The Placebo Effect in Alternative Medicine: Can the Performance of a Healing Ritual Have Clinical Significance?

    • Ted J. Kaptchuk
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:817-825

    This essay looks at the placebo effect of alternative medicine as a distinct entity by reviewing current knowledge about the placebo effect and how it may pertain to alternative medicine. Five components of the placebo effect—patient, practitioner, patient–practitioner interaction, nature of the illness, and treatment and setting—are examined.

  • The Wrong Patient

    • Mark R. Chassin and
    • Elise C. Becher
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:826-833

    Among all types of medical errors, cases in which the wrong patient undergoes an invasive procedure are sufficiently distressing to warrant special attention. Nevertheless, institutions underreport such procedures, and the medical literature contains few discussions about them. This article examines the case of a patient who was mistakenly taken for another patient's invasive electrophysiology procedure.

Review

  • The Commonality of Risk Factors for Nosocomial Colonization and Infection with Antimicrobial-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus, Gram-Negative Bacilli, Clostridium difficile, and Candida

    • Nasia Safdar and
    • Dennis G. Maki
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:834-844

    Recent years have witnessed a rapidly growing crisis in antimicrobial resistance, especially among microorganisms that cause nosocomial infection. To better understand common risk factors among multiresistant organisms, this review explores risk factors for nosocomial infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant enterococcus, Clostridium difficile, extended-spectrum β-lactamase–producing gram-negative bacilli, and Candida.

Perspectives

  • Sedation, Alimentation, Hydration, and Equivocation: Careful Conversation about Care at the End of Life

    • Lynn A. Jansen and
    • Daniel P. Sulmasy
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:845-849

    This paper examines the various ways that the terms terminal sedation and refusal of hydration and nutrition have been used in the medical literature.

Editorial

  • Learning from Our Mistakes: Quality Grand Rounds, a New Case-Based Series on Medical Errors and Patient Safety

    • Robert M. Wachter,
    • Kaveh G. Shojania,
    • Sanjay Saint,
    • Amy J. Markowitz,
    • and Mark Smith
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:850-852

    In this issue, with the paper by Chassin and Becher, Annals launches a new series, “Quality Grand Rounds.”

Letters

  • Tobacco Use in HIV-Infected Women

    • Michael B. Steinberg,
    • Joseph A. DeSimone,
    • and Diane Abatemarco
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:W1

  • Effects of Pravastatin in the Elderly

    • Hiroshi Iwata,
    • Tomonori Aoyama,
    • and Masahiro Kami
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:W2

  • Effects of Pravastatin in the Elderly

    • John Simes,
    • Peta Young,
    • and David Hunt
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:W3

  • The Heartbreak of Drug Pricing

    • Johnathon S. Ross
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:853

  • The Heartbreak of Drug Pricing

    • Wes Lisker
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:853

  • The Heartbreak of Drug Pricing

    • Frank Davidoff
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:853-854

  • Molecular Genetic Evidence of an Association between Nasal Polyposis and the Peutz–Jeghers Syndrome

    • Josbert J. Keller,
    • Anne Marie Westerman,
    • Felix W.M. de Rooij,
    • J.H. Paul Wilson,
    • Herman van Dekken,
    • Francis M. Giardiello,
    • Marian A.J. Weterman,
    • and G. Johan A. Offerhaus
    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:855-856

  • Correction: Update in Infectious Diseases

    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:855

Medical Writings: Book Notes

Ad Libitum

Book Listings

Medical Notices

Summaries for Patients

  • Body Heat Management in People Using Cocaine

    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:I20

  • Antiseptics To Prevent Infection from Intravascular Catheters

    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:I26

  • Evaluating Function in Women after a Stroke Using Two Different Types of Measures

    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:I34

  • The Reliability of Medical Record Review for Estimating the Frequency of Medical Mistakes

    Ann Intern Med June 4, 2002 136:I40
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