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Decision Points about other health issues
Decision Points are designed to guide you through key health decisions, combining medical information with your personal information to make a wise health decision. Click on a link below to learn more about treatment options for your condition or other issues:
Acne: When to see a doctor- Adoption as an alternative to infertility treatment
- Artificial hydration and nutrition
- Autopsy: Should I have one done on my loved one?
- Banking blood before surgery
- Birth control
- Breast-feeding
- Cardioversion for atrial fibrillation
- Care of an extremely premature infant
- Chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer
- Clotting factor concentrates for hemophilia
- Complementary medicine
- CPR and mechanical ventilation
- Diabetes and pregnancy
- Discussing your child's bed-wetting with your doctor
- Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) for kidney stones
- Hearing aid
- High risk for breast cancer
- Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) for heart failure
- Insulin pump
- Multifetal pregnancy reduction
- Nursing home placement following a stroke
- Nursing home placement for someone with Alzheimer's disease or other dementia
- Pacemaker for heart failure
- Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain
- Stopping curative treatment at the end of life
- Stopping kidney dialysis
- Testicular cancer: Stage I seminoma
- Testicular cancer: Stage I nonseminoma
- Treatment options for bed-wetting
- Treatment options for hemorrhoids
- Treatment options for hyperthyroidism
- Treatment options for infertility
- Treatment options for miscarriage
- Treatment options for urinary incontinence in women
- Treatment options for warts or plantar warts
- Trying a trial of labor after cesarean delivery
- Tubal procedure or in vitro fertilization for tubal infertility
- Types of kidney dialysis
- Umbilical cord blood banking
- Uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids
Credits
| Author | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Editor | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA |
| Associate Editor | Pat Truman, MATC |
| Primary Medical Reviewer | Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine |
| Specialist Medical Reviewer | Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine |
| Last Updated | May 1, 2008 |
| Last updated: | May 01, 2008 |
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| Author: | Caroline Rea, RN, BS, MS |
| Reviewed By: | Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine, Adam Husney, MD - Family Medicine |
| Editors: | Susan Van Houten, RN, BSN, MBA, Pat Truman, MATC |
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