Management of Colonic Diverticulitis

Abstract

The information in this report is intended to help healthcare decision makers-patients and clinicians, health system leaders, and policymakers, among others-make well-informed decisions and thereby improve the quality of healthcare services. This report is not intended to be a substitute for the application of clinical judgment. Anyone who makes decisions concerning the provision of clinical care should consider this report in the same way as any medical reference and in conjunction with all other pertinent information, i.e., in the context of available resources and circumstances presented by individual patients.

The Influence of Physiologic Burdens Related to Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Cardiovascular Outcomes

“…Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is arguably foremost among sleep disorders augmenting cardiovascular risk, with its diagnosis and severity typically gleaned from the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI), measured on polysomnography (PSG) or home sleep apnea tests. Although patients with OSA are at increased cardiovascular risk, there is lingering obscurity regarding the AHI metric and questions as to its precision, how accurately it reflects the salient biologic aspects of OSA, and its utility as a defining metric potentially explaining negative clinical trials involving intervention with continuous positive airway pressure ( 3 , 4 ).…”