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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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MedQuest College

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Building trust and empathy in diagnostic medical sonography is vital for delivering exceptional patient care. As a diagnostic medical sonographer, you play a crucial role in the healthcare journey by providing accurate imaging that aids in diagnosis and treatment. However, the technical aspects of the job are only part of the equation.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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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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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A thoughtful H&P can avoid unnecessary tests that in turn produce false positive results that then demand further evaluation. 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.

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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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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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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 25, 2023

We read about diseases and their associated diagnostic tests and treatments. Clinical findings and blood tests hint at the diagnosis, but the only truly confirmatory test is a biopsy of the temporal artery – a small procedure but a procedure all the same. Diagnostic reasoning is supposed to my specialty.

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Electronic Health Reporter

JULY 10, 2020

It’s been more than 35 years since the original at-home pregnancy tests came on the market. Since then, there has been a surge of home-testing options, driven by a fervid interest in wellness, expediency, cost-efficiency, […]. The article The Rise of At-Home Health Diagnostics appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 27, 2024

Recently, Dr. Prasad criticized medical schools for testing outdated evidence, unrealistic clinical scenarios, and requiring students to know useless and impractical information. The most successful students are those who can seamlessly recite guidelines and diagnostic criteria. Nevertheless, we have trapped ourselves in this system.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 30, 2023

Last week a friend sent me a link to an article in The Financial Times titled, MRI scan more accurate than blood test at diagnosing prostate cancer, UK study finds. I read the article, skeptically, thinking MRI as a screening test, come on. The following 2X2 table shows the number of men with positive and negative tests.

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Scrubs

MARCH 29, 2023

A new cancer detection tool known as the “holy grail” of early detection is currently being tested in hospitals throughout the U.K., It is the first pan-cancer blood test, according to Ashish Tripathi, founder and CEO of Tzar Labs and chairman of Epigeneres Biotech, an Indian firm that first developed the test in 2021. “We

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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. Seven of them tested positive for Covid and I suspect the eighth test was a false negative.

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Electronic Health Reporter

AUGUST 31, 2020

There was a time when the only way a patient could receive comprehensive diagnostic medical tests was through a laboratory. The article Why Point of Care Testing (POCT) Is On The Rise In The Medical World appeared first on electronichealthreporter.com. Illegal copying is prohibited. In […].

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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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Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

They underwent various diagnostic tests, all of which came back negative. “I reached out to a physician and asked if he would order a carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning test,” she explains. The staff ran another test on the patient, which showed dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide in their bloodstream.

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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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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. This is what everyone fears, square D. ” This is a rare situation.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This doesn’t mean snake oil and unnecessary tests and referrals. After our third disagreement over her wanting preventative medications and screening tests far out of line with guidelines -- and my own comfort – she decided she’d be better served by another physician. We also spoke on the phone about every two weeks.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 25, 2023

For calcium deposits in breast arteries to be important, we would need to know that some action based on this finding, whether it be further diagnostic testing, lifestyle modification, or medical therapy, actually benefits a woman. ” We simply don’t know whether using this test will do more good than harm.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 11, 2023

How large a number needed to screen is too large for a test to be acceptable? If we are to reach agreement on the benefit of cancer screening, thus enabling guideline committees to speak with one voice, we must agree on what constitutes an effective screening test and on how much we, as a nation, are willing to pay for it.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MARCH 22, 2024

In testimony to Congress Thursday, industry and patient group leaders described the trade-offs expected from increased FDA oversight of laboratory-developed tests.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Phlebotomy Technicians specialize in drawing blood from patients for various medical tests and donations, ensuring patient comfort and sample integrity. EKG Technicians work in hospitals, cardiology clinics, and diagnostic centers. Where Do They Work? Phlebotomy Technicians work in hospitals, laboratories, or blood donation centers.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 9, 2023

The group signed onto a new program that would help patients better access their claims records, including lists of everything that gets charged to the patient’s insurance company, including medical tests, procedures, doctor’s visits and medications.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 13, 2024

For any test you order, what is the diagnostic hypothesis you are testing? Ask yourself, “what is the pre-test probability of the disease I am testing for?” ” If it is 90%, do you need the test? If it is 90%, and the test is negative, what comes next?

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Medical Economics

MAY 14, 2024

CorDx’s Multiplex Rapid Test empowers healthcare providers with world-class diagnostics that deliver rapid, comprehensive, and precise results. Accelerate your point-of-care respiratory testing with 3-in-1 results you can trust, in just 10 minutes.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

AUGUST 5, 2024

Decreased access to diagnostic tests, worsening patient care and practice closures are among the concerns the AMA and others have raised as the regulation takes effect.

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Health Populi

MAY 14, 2020

Impacts on oncology, and, Impacts on lab use and diagnostic services. Patients’ visits to doctor’s offices and clinical labs for diagnostic tests dramatically declined since the start of the pandemic. health care. For more on the telemedicine moment in the C19 era, read this analysis].

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Health Populi

MAY 21, 2020

Thus, 38% of people would delay an elective procedure and 27% would delay a diagnostic test in a hospital setting for at least six months. There’s one test most Americans want to access: 64% of people want to be tested for COVID-19, but one-third are concerned about their ability to get the test.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2024

The medical team admits him and performs a diagnostic thoracentesis, the results of which reveal a complicated parapneumonic effusion (pH = 7.11). Carotid dopplers are often done even though the test is definitively unnecessary in almost all cases. A thoracic surgery consultation is called for a chest tube to be placed.

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19 Labs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Physician shortages are common, and equipping some areas with proper diagnostic devices can be difficult and expensive. Some diagnostic tools can also be quite complex to operate, and require a trained medical professional on-site. This makes it a perfect addition to GALE's growing suite of smart diagnostic devices.".

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Science Based Medicine

JANUARY 21, 2025

I’m at that age, 67 going in 68, where it is reasonable to yell at the clouds. Which, come to think of it, may be a good title for another collection of my SBM essays. Aging does indeed suck, but it is, usually, better than the alternative.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 19, 2023

For any test you order, what is the diagnostic hypothesis you are testing? i] A clinical reasoning sin on the “Diagnostic Reasoning Yellow Card” Work on your clinical reasoning skills by being your own worst attending Ask yourself the questions you least want to answer.

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Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Ordering diagnostic tests is a standard procedure for physicians; yet if the test results aren’t reviewed and acted upon, what was the point of ordering the test? “ Physicians who overlook test results do their patients a disservice — possibly a fatal one. Some would be on top of their own diagnostic tests.

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Medical Economics

JANUARY 13, 2025

How proactive legal strategies can protect providers and support access to advanced diagnostic testing.

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New York Medical Career Training Center

AUGUST 26, 2019

The quality Diagnostic Medical Sonographer training we offer is one of the premier courses here at NY Med Training. This course instructs and demonstrates the clinical laboratory test and sign and symptoms used for evaluation of the abdominal organ and small parts pathology, GYN. Male Pelvic Sonography 45 Hours. Nationally Accredited.

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19 Labs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Physician shortages are common, and equipping some areas with proper diagnostic devices can be difficult and expensive. Some diagnostic tools can also be quite complex to operate, and require a trained medical professional on-site. This makes it a perfect addition to GALE's growing suite of smart diagnostic devices.".

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