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Prophylactic treatment

Known as: Preventive Intervention, PREVENTATIVE, Prophylaxis 
In medicine, action taken to decrease the chance of getting a disease or condition. For example, cancer prevention includes avoiding risk factors… 
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2014
2014
Effectiveness of infection prevention measures featuring advanced source control and environmental cleaning to limit transmission of extremely-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in a Thai…
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Ethnic Differences in Neonatal and Postneonatal Mortality
Objective. Ethnic disparities in infant mortality have been consistently documented in the United States, but these disparities… 
2005
2005
Empfehlungen zur Prävention nosokomialer Pneumonien
Because of the high morbidity and mortality associated with health-care-associated pneumonia, it is important to implement… 
2005
2005
Mainstreaming prevention: prescribing fruit and vegetables as a brief intervention in primary care.
Review
2005
Review
2005
Efficacy of a Drug Prevention CD-ROM Intervention for Adolescents
The purpose of the present study was to examine the efficacy of a substance abuse–preventive intervention using CD-ROM technology… 
2000
2000
Developmental psychopathology and public health: Past, present, and future
Children's healthy mental development has never been the focus of long-term, committed public health policy in the way that early… 
1995
1995
Cost of Pressure Ulcer Prevention in Long‐Term Care
OBJECTIVE: To describe the total cost of pressure ulcer prevention, component costs of each intervention, and the relationship of… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A Comparison of Patient Risk for Pressure Ulcer Development with Nursing Use of Preventive Interventions
Objective: (1) Determine if the Braden scale or Norton scale predicted the same patients to be at risk for pressure ulcer… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Epidemiology and preventive interventions: Parental death in childhood as a case example
Illustrates how standard epidemiologic principles form the knowledge base to justify a preventive intervention for an at-risk… 
1975
1975
Critical view on audiometric screening in school.
After examination of the factors affecting the validity of audiometric tests in schools, screening programs are seen as having… 
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