American Family Physician

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Articles in June 15, 2005, issue of American Family Physician

• Evaluation and management of apparent life-threatening events in children
  by Karen L. Hall
• Diary: from a week in practice
  by Kathy Soch
• NRMP rules out second residency match
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• Clinical quiz
• Primary care interventions to prevent low back pain in adults: recommendation statement
• CMS proposes new rule on hospice care for Medicare patients
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• Choosing between warfarin and aspirin therapy for patients with atrial fibrillation
  by Mark H. Ebell
• Eszopiclone for treatment of transient and chronic insomnia
  by Andrea M. Wessell
• Secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in elderly patients
  by Ibrahim R. Hanna
• The family physician workforce: quality, not quantity
  by Larry A. Green
• Family physicians and the primary care physicians workforce in 2004
• Congressional bill encourages use of health information technology
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• Updated ACG guidelines for diagnosis and treatment of GERD
  by Liz Smith
• Three days of ciprofloxacin better for uncomplicated UTI
  by David Slawson
• Reducing operative mortality in aortic aneurysm repair
  by Anne D. Walling
• CME calendar
• New series on workforce issues
  by Joyce A. Merriman
• CDC report finds visits to emergency departments are at all-time high
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• Divalproex sodium an option for post-herpetic neuralgia
  by Mark Ebell
• Ticks—how to protect yourself
• New AAFP program offers PDA-based CME
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• AHRQ data on antibiotic use in children with otitis media
  by Laura Coughlin
• Which patients with dyspepsia should have urgent endoscopy?
  by Mark Ebell
• Safe surfing
• Cruises
• Advise sexually active patients to consider HIV testing
  by John R. Dykers, Jr.
• AHRQ review of routine episiotomy in uncomplicated births
  by Laura Coughlin
• SSRIs ineffective for the management of hot flashes
  by Linda French
• Health issues for surfers
  by Todd B. Zoltan
• Tick-borne disease
  by Robert L. Bratton
• International FP/GP meetings
• Travel immunizations: benefits and precautions
  by John Walden
• AHRQ report examines standards of care during mass casualty events
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• Children major factor in transmission of influenza
  by Anne D. Walling
• Annual Scientific Assemblies
• Quantum sufficit: just enough
  by Laura Coughlin
• Diagnosing severe acute respiratory syndrome
  by Richard Sadovsky
• Medicaid expected to top states' health care agendas in 2005
  by Carrie A. Morantz
• A healthy woman with right upper quadrant discomfort on deep palpation
  by Ioannis A. Bliziotis
• Effect of institutionalizing patients on caregiver's health
  by Caroline Wellberry