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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

If patient data tripped the alert, an EMR pop-up message would appear for nurses and physicians. These alerts were backed up with training and monitoring to encourage real action. Process measures suggested that doctors and nurses responded to the alerts with increased testing of lactate levels and fluid resuscitation.

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What I Read This Week

Sensible Medicine

The researchers looked at every patient that had mammograms between 2004 and 2019 and developed breast cancer. We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. It shows a benefit of close follow-up in a heart failure clinic. (It It also shows us how hard it is to up-titrate GDMT. Let me count the ways.

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What I Read Last Week

Sensible Medicine

I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” All had urea breath tests for Helicobacter pylori , the bacteria that causes most peptic ulcer disease and is closely associated with gastric cancer. People that tested negative were followed. Those who tested positive received either curative H.

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Peter Attia, Outlive, Cardiology 3.0 and primordial prevention of heart attacks

Sensible Medicine

Designed to help fund good nutritional research with the ultimate goal of reducing obesity and testing the hypothesis that “all calories are equal,” NUSI, unfortunately has floundered and is dead. He now knows these numbers indicate high levels of apoB "but no one bothered to test my apoB number."

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. billion since 2019. It is a sprawling nationwide roll-up of healthcare assets. Of Optum’s $226 billion topline, $136.4

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Babies with the DNA of Three Different People Born in the U.K.

Scrubs

“The Newcastle team involved in carrying out the procedures are cautious and will have wanted to include at least some follow-up data on the babies, while also protecting the privacy of the families,” Lovell-Badge explained. “This is a challenge in itself. Some 32 patients in the U.K.

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What is the Quadruple Aim of healthcare?

Mobius MD

In 2019, healthcare leaders declared physician burnout a public health crisis , making connections between provider wellbeing, patient safety, and the quality of care. Use pre-visit planning and pre-appointment lab testing to reduce time wasted on the review of follow-up results.