Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Here is the 5-year survival curves for the composite endpoint of CV death and MI: How can a diagnostic test lead to this much benefit? Foreknowledge of normal coronary anatomy could potentially bias the investigator to not pursue diagnostic testing (biomarkers or electrocardiogram), thereby amplifying the difference in Mis.

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We Care Online

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Diagnostic reasoning is one of the most essential skills for any health care professional, from medical students to seasoned physicians. Mastering diagnostic reasoning is crucial for providing accurate patient care, minimizing errors, and improving health outcomes. What is Diagnostic Reasoning?

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A newly published study from Sweden unveiled a blood test capable of detecting Alzheimer’s disease with 90% accuracy.

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Forbes Healthcare

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Cytovale has developed a FDA-cleared, rapid diagnostic tool for sepsis, and it just raised $100 million to roll it out to hospital systems across the country.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 7, 2025

All diagnostic inquiries start with a patient experiencing a symptom. To make a diagnosis, a doctor must characterize the concern, translating the patient’s words into a symptom with an established differential diagnosis and an associated diagnostic approach. This is where many diagnostic errors occur. ” asks Dr. S.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

Race is a therefore terrible diagnostic test. We define diagnostic tests as tools that distinguish two populations, in medicine, diseased and healthy. Diagnostic tests make a suspected disease more or less likely. They are associated with high or low likelihood ratios. The likelihood ratios for race are always close to one.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 29, 2024

AI is revolutionizing healthcare by personalizing diagnostics, treatments, and preventive care, leading to better patient outcomes and streamlined operations

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Scrubs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Echocardiography, or echo for short, is a key diagnostic test used by cardiologists to assess the heart. In summary, echocardiography is an invaluable and versatile diagnostic technique. It utilizes high-frequency sound waves, also known as ultrasound, to generate images of the beating heart.

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Valant

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

(Updated 11/6/2024) In March of 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) released changes to its diagnostic manual, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. This has helped clinicians increase their diagnostic precision.

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Forbes Healthcare

JUNE 15, 2024

Precision mental health is about better tailoring different preventative, diagnostic and treatment approaches to different people's characteristics and circumstances.

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Hera Biotech is developing a less invasive, more accurate diagnostic test for endometriosis, an often painful condition that can lead to infertility.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Advances in technology, particularly generative AI and at-home diagnostics, have turned the once-distant idea of consumerism in medicine into a fast-approaching reality.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 5, 2023

I am also obsessed with our diagnostic reasoning biases. In this article, Dr. Adam Cifu To paraphrase Shaw and Hawking, “The greatest threat to diagnostic excellence is not lack of a diagnosis but rather the illusion of a diagnosis.” ” Bias distorts our perception and leads to errors in diagnostic reasoning.

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Medical Economics

AUGUST 28, 2024

AI helps physicians accurately diagnose dementia type, even when limited information is available

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 1, 2024

If RCTs are the most useful study design, and articles about case control studies are my favorite to read, the use and interpretation of diagnostic tests and the articles that define test characteristics are my favorite to think about, talk about, and teach. Given my enthusiasm, this topic will be covered in two posts.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 1, 2023

The brain is articulate as injury to it produces diverse, diagnostic symptoms – encephalitis speaks differently than a brain tumor speaks differently than a right MCA stroke. It is because we think all dyspnea feels the same and thus trying to define the sensation has no diagnostic value. Read more

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 27, 2024

The most successful students are those who can seamlessly recite guidelines and diagnostic criteria. We should be dedicating students’ time to building a thorough understanding of pathophysiology, or diagnostic reasoning or critically analyzing evidence. This type of deductive reasoning is a foundational process.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2023

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Diagnostic reasoning is supposed to my specialty. Diagnostic tests give you more than just a diagnosis. My job is to provide information and to suggest diagnostic approaches or therapies. It sounds like you’ve already made the diagnosis.”

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MedQuest College

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Diagnostic Medical Sonography is a fascinating and essential field in modern healthcare, utilizing ultrasound technology to create images of the body’s internal structures. This beginner’s guide will explore what Diagnostic Medical Sonography entails, its importance, and how you can start a career in this field.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

As an EBM and diagnostic reasoning obsessive, I often see this as a 2X2 table with the patients knowledge in the columns and the doctors as the rows: Most commonly, both doctor and patient know when the end of life is near — square A. .” ” In these situations, my approach is a frantic search for a diagnosis.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

There are cases when it is necessary to pore through old records, but the EMR and diagnostic technology has undermined this claim. Diagnostic reasoning is (at least partially) deductive reasoning. However, sometimes we are stumped and diagnostic tests can be hypothesis generating.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I’ve been following the general conversations and have been particularly interested in AI’s potential to improve diagnostic performance. Whatever great advances are ahead, I cannot foresee a time that people will be comfortable receiving counseling from a computer or receiving recommendations about diagnostics or treatments.

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MedQuest College

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In diagnostic medical sonography, patient care extends beyond the technical skills required to operate equipment. As a diagnostic medical sonographer, mastering the art of patient care is as important as technical proficiency. Building trust with patients begins with understanding their concerns.

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MedQuest College

APRIL 22, 2024

Understand the Role of a Sonographer Before pursuing a career in diagnostic medical sonography, it’s important to understand the role and responsibilities of a sonographer. Research Educational Requirements Most employers require sonographers to have formal education and training in diagnostic medical sonography.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 24, 2024

I know when it is pneumonia, I know when it is influenza or RSV, I kind of know when it is COVID though that tends to be a bit of a diagnostic moving target. I think my diagnostic reasoning is pretty plausible. I also know when it is human metapneumovirus (hMPV). We often see this in the spring, when the other viruses are waning.

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Physicians Practice

OCTOBER 14, 2024

This white paper explores diagnostic challenges in emergency, ambulatory, and hospital settings.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

It was a diagnostic test study, one of my favorite article types, but not a traditional one. In the second half of the course, students were free to choose articles from the entirety of the medical literature. This article, Colorectal Cancer Screening with Odour Material by Canine Scent Detection , was chosen by a student one year.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This was the validation article in a series of diagnostic test articles. This study was a case-control, diagnostic test study. 2 It was referenced in the WSJ article. Background Grail’s founding idea was to develop a single blood test that can screen for multiple cancers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 9, 2019

Sometimes, the answer never comes; conventional diagnostics does not always provide a diagnosis for diseases […]. Getting a diagnosis for a rare disease is a long and often painful journey that can take an average of five years1 and hundreds of doctor visits.

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Medical Economics

JANUARY 23, 2025

A market analysis report from Grand View Research projects the AI diagnostics market size to grow at a CAGR of 24.60% through 2030.

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Sensible Medicine

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Medical training introduced me to a whole menu of smells -- both diagnostic tools and reminders of times in my career. [i] i] This is one of my favorite slides about the diagnostic smells. [ii] Wet cardboard boxes reliably take me to the walk-in refrigerators of my family’s store that I worked in growing up. ” Share

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 11, 2024

This represents a significant step towards integrating AI more deeply into medical practice, aiming to enhance diagnostic accuracy, treatment personalization, and overall patient care. Other companies are also racing to provide AI-based technology in healthcare.

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Performance Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

These errors, ranging from medication mistakes to diagnostic oversights, can result in serious consequences, including prolonged hospital stays, unnecessary treatments, and even fatalities. By leveraging RMIS , healthcare facilities are addressing these risks more effectively.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 11, 2025

ECRI also said cybersecurity breaches can delay care and diagnostic errors can lead to improper treatment.

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Medical Economics

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A recent study compared the diagnostic performance of physicians referencing AI to those limited to conventional resources.

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Diagnostics 111

Electronic Health Reporter

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

AccessDX Holdings, an international provider of advanced laboratory diagnostic solutions, has acquired 2bPrecise from Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

They underwent various diagnostic tests, all of which came back negative. Terri Tanner, an emergency department nurse at Northwest Hospital in Maryland, remembers trying to talk to a patient who was suffering from an unknown condition during the eleventh hour of their stay. ” I knew I couldn’t rush this.

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