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Almost the AI Article I Want

Sensible Medicine

I’ve been using Tuesday to post the “Improving Your Critical Appraisal Skills” articles recently. Even though I’ve got the case-control study ready to go, I’m taking a quick break because I spent way too much time thinking about this article last week. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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Nursing Quiz to Test Your Medical Skills

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They carry out doctor’s orders, check up on patients throughout the day, and make sure providers have accurate information when looking at the patient’s chart. Nurses may need to refresh their memory of this knowledge every few years to make sure they have the latest and most up to date information. 34 12 votes, 1.9

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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

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It’s been a few years since I first heard about the Galleri test produced by the Menlo Park startup Grail. Galleri is a blood-based screening test for cancer. For a couple of reasons, I didn’t work very hard to learn about the Galleri test. Second, I was worried that this test might have real promise.

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What I Read This Week

Sensible Medicine

I only read two articles last week (Labor Day, a wedding, having to debate, and then write and article with Vinay…). The article came out of the University of Pittsburgh and studied patients there. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography? Let me count the ways. Observational data.

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What I Read Last Week

Sensible Medicine

I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” I then use my other “media” – NYT, NPR, twitter, office chatter – to find other articles I should be reading. Last week, there were no articles that changed my practice but there were a few that I found interesting. The follow-up was 11.2

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I Am Afraid of Early Cancer Detection

Sensible Medicine

Last week I wrote about Grail’s Galleri test; a test marketed as a single blood test that screens for 50 cancers. Last week’s article outlined my pretty dim view of the test. As a nation, we have embraced mammography, colonoscopy, and PSA testing as part of routine healthcare. ’” 3.

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Universal Depression Screening Leads to Unnecessary Harm

Sensible Medicine

A subsequent article in BMC Medicine highlighted the dearth of evidence. The title of this article kind of says it all: The authors suggest a depression screening RCT should exclude individuals with known depression, randomize people to screening or no screening, and make the same mental health services available to both groups.

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