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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

The only problem was that the patient population would change over the course of the study – the unscreened population was studied mostly in 2019 and early 2020 while the screened population was mostly late 2020 early 2021. It looked like this: Ingenious, right? Thus, the results would have to be adjusted. Alerts occurred in 14.6%

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CMS Develops Additional Code For Coronavirus Lab Tests

Electronic Health Reporter

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) took additional actions to ensure America’s patients, healthcare facilities and clinical laboratories are prepared to respond to the 2019-Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). The article CMS Develops Additional Code For Coronavirus Lab Tests appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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NCLEX to Be Changed as Fail Rates Climb

Scrubs

in 2019 to 82.5% Experts estimate that about 20% of those who graduate from nursing school aren’t passing the test, which means they won’t be able to enter the nursing profession. Students who attended nursing school in or after Fall 2021 will be tested on this new version of the NCLEX. The pass rate fell from 88.2%

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The Caveats of CES 2019

Health Populi

There was a lot of Twitter activity in my tweet-feed about an Amazon Alexa-enabled toilets at CES 2019. Descriptions waxed lyrically about it, such as a, “fully-immersive experience,” “Game of Thrones,” and, “CES 2019 is flush with smart toilets.” Kohler launched one called Numi 2.0,

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What I Read Last Week

Sensible Medicine

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. It was an amazing study. Data was abstracted for 23,654,000 (!)

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Retail Health Ends 2018 With Big Plans for 2019

Health Populi

As the CVS + Aetna merger crosses its last regulatory hurdle at the close of 2018, we enter 2019 facing a fast-growing and -morphing retail health landscape. The three of us will be on a panel addressing retail health disruption at CES 2019 on 9th January 2019 at the Digital Health Summit.

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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. By Jeff Goldsmith Years ago, the largest living thing in the world was thought to be the blue whale.

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