Mary Johnston

TL;DR: This overview focuses on studies of the final and most clinically important stages of evaluation and examines controlled trials designed to measure the effects of CDSSs on clinician performance and patient outcomes.

TL;DR: Meta-analysis of reported randomized trials shows no significant difference in complete and overall pain relief between single and multifraction palliative RT for bone metastases.

TL;DR: A national survey of a random sample of American College of Physicians (ACP) members to assess ACP members' familiarity with, confidence in, and attitudes about guidelines issued by ACP and other organizations and members' perceptions of the effect of ACp and other guidelines on their practices.

TL;DR: A systematic review and meta-analysis conducted to test the hypothesis that oncology health care workers are at an increased risk of cancer, reproductive complications and acute toxic events identified a small incremental risk for spontaneous abortions in female staff working with cytotoxic agents.

TL;DR: Intravenous carboplatin plus paclitaxel is the recommended postoperative chemotherapy regimen for newly diagnosed stage II-IV epithelial ovarian cancer and may also be considered a treatment option in patients for whom paclitxel is contraindicated or in patients who are unwilling to accept the adverse effects of pac litaxel chemotherapy.