Issue Summary April 15, 2014




Annals of Internal Medicine Podcast show

Summary: Summary of the April 15, 2014 issue, including articles on U.S. trends in prevalence and control of diabetes, quantifying delirium severity, virtual autopsy versus traditional medical autopsy, high-energy extracorporeal shock-wave therapy for shoulder tendinitis, and point-of-care tests for detecting albuminuria, as well as the USPSTF recommendation statement on vitamin supplementation to prevent cardiovascular disease and cancer and commentaries on the Physician Value-Based Payment Modifier program, the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center's experience with a carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae outbreak, and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology's recent decision to reverse its stance on gynecologists treating men.