AHD.COM (American Hospital Directory)
Current; AHD.com provides online data for over 6,000 hospitals. The database is built from both public and private sources including Medicare claims data (MedPAR and OPPS), hospital cost reports, hospital profiles, department statistics, IP and OP data, quality measures, and other public use files obtained from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This resource may be accessed on the Level 1 Rockefeller Library Cluster computers ONLY. For assistance, contact Thomas_Stieve@brown.edu in the Rockefeller Library.
Archive for March, 2006
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Saturday, March 18th, 2006International HIV/AIDS Trial Results
Saturday, March 18th, 2006International HIV/AIDS Trial Finds Continuous Antiretroviral Therapy Superior to Episodic Therapy
From NIH:
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), today announced that enrollment into a large international HIV/AIDS trial comparing continuous antiretroviral therapy with episodic drug treatment guided by levels of CD4+ cells has been stopped. Enrollment was stopped because those patients receiving episodic therapy had twice the risk of disease progression (the development of clinical AIDS or death), the major outcome of the study.
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