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Information for authors Interested in submitting a feature article to a Patient Care Topic Editor? We’re interested in receiving articles in these areas: endocrinology/cardiology, hospital medicine, women’s health, dermatology, neurology/psychiatry, infectious disease, and urology. Here’s how to improve your chances of acceptance. Dear Doctor, Patient Care is pleased to continue its series in Primary Care Topics in Hematology & Oncology. We hope this edition will provide you with a practical and concise review of 2 challenging areas: bridge anticoagulation therapy and screening for cervical cancer. A clinical challenge arises when patients who are on chronic oral anticoagulation require an interruption of their therapy for procedures such as dental extractions, endoscopies, and elective surgeries. In “Strategies for bridge anticoagulation therapy” (page 7), Mirza E. Perez, PharmD, and Mark G. Graham, MD, review the evidence for bridge anticoagulation therapy with unfractionated heparin and low-molecular-weight heparins. Even though it’s been 5 years since new primary cervical screening guidelines were issued, many clinicians are still struggling with how to best integrate them into their practices. Our expert, J. Thomas Cox, MD, helps you make sense of the screening intervals in “How to integrate the new cervical cancer guidelines into practice” (page 15). For more topics in primary care, please go to www.patientcareonline.com, to subscribe free to the digital editions of Patient Care. We also hope you’ll visit ModernMedicine.com, an innovative online health care Web site that offers information from Patient Care and other trusted professional journals published by Advanstar Communications. Registration to the site is free, so please take a few moments to sign up. Karl Singer, MD Medical Editor Focus on the practical We don’t publish original research or traditional review articles. Instead, we aim to provide practical, easy-to-read advice on dealing with the clinical problems encountered in day-to-day patient care. Scientific preciseness and evidence-based content are important. Include tables, figures, and art Please send visual elements with your manuscript whenever possible. Our art department and editors can also work with authors to develop original art. Make your submission easy to process Limit the manuscript to 10 to 15 double-spaced pages. You can submit your article by e-mail (as a Wordfile attachment) or on a disk, sent to the address below. Need more detailed information? Want to talk over an idea for an article to see if it’s suitable for Patient Care? Call Peter D’Epiro, PhD, Managing Editor, at (201) 690-5545; send an e-mail message to pdepiro@advanstar.com; or write to Patient Care, 123 Tice Blvd, Suite 300, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07667-7664. ® THE JOURNAL OF BEST CLINICAL PRACTICES FOR TODAY’S PHYSICIAN 4 PATIENT CARE OCTOBER 2007 http://www.patientcareonline.com http://www.patientcareonline.com

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Patient Care - Hematology & Oncology - October 2007 Research Digest Contents Information for Authors Medicine in the News Strategies for Bridge Anticoagulation Therapy How to Integrate the New Cervical Cancer Guidelines into Practice Dermatology Case Challenge Clinical Clips Classified Advertising

Patient Care Hematology & Oncology - October 2007

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