id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-312476-20ifwznd Kline, Jeffrey A. Crash Course in Decision Making 2008-01-08 .txt text/plain 1089 63 57 in this month's Academic Emergency Medicine shows how emergency physicians can use scientific method to ''get it in gear'' to produce a decision instrument, used in real time on huge numbers of patients, to render a major impact on public health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued specific recommendations for the diagnosis and evaluation of patients with suspected SARS. Curiously, at the time of this writing, no areas of the world are reporting ongoing SARS transmission, yet the CDC's recommendation for infection control stated above were issued in September 2003, and are current and active. 2 Regardless of whether SARS returns to the public consciousness, the CDC's recommendations for infection control of SARS have several major ramifications on the practice of emergency medicine. Numerous other contagious diseases that cause an ILI prodrome could emerge at any time and the CDC could issue similar infectious control recommendations. ./cache/cord-312476-20ifwznd.txt ./txt/cord-312476-20ifwznd.txt