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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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

I feel most like I am “among my people” discussing diagnostic dilemmas with my team post call. What makes a diagnostic dilemma? Diagnostic dilemmas are those which occupy the other three squares of a 2X2 table. 2 Common puzzles test diagnostic reasoning. These unsolved chronic problems are never easy.

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But there’s another angle on 2021 for which health care providers and health citizens alike should prepare: that is the excess deaths that will happen due to patients postponing needed health care, diagnostic tests, and preventive services that stem from people avoiding care in doctor’s offices and hospitals.

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Electronic Health Reporter

DECEMBER 4, 2019

By Tom Romeo, general manager of healthcare IT, Quanum Solutions, Quest Diagnostics. Despite widespread adoption, a 2018 Quest Diagnostics survey was among the first to cast doubt on overall usefulness of “basic” EHRs. Illegal copying is prohibited. Only 39% of physicians surveyed believed […].

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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

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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Scrubs

MAY 18, 2024

Nurses can advocate for policy changes within their institutions that directly benefit the uninsured, such as more transparent pricing structures and reducing non-essential medical tests that inflate costs.

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The HIPAA Journal

JULY 8, 2024

For certain users, limited demographic information may also have been disclosed and, potentially, lab test names or lab test resources viewed on the website but no lab test results.

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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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19 Labs

JULY 20, 2021

Healthcare companies are now moving quickly to provide full care in patients’ homes, rural communities, schools, and pharmacies using the latest diagnostic devices combined with telehealth. SAN MATEO, CA — JULY 20, 2021 — The hospital-at-home trend is rapidly changing the healthcare industry globally and throughout the Gulf countries.

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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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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

JANUARY 16, 2024

They are adept at managing common illnesses and providing preventive care, including regular health check-ups, vaccinations, and screening tests. They also perform diagnostic procedures like endoscopies and colonoscopies.

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Minority Nurse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Contributing factors for these diagnosis-related claims included the failure of an NP to order a diagnostic/lab test to establish a diagnosis, failure to obtain a complete history and physical of the patient, and failure to refer a patient to higher level care. Diagnosis-related allegations represented 37.1%

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The Healthcare Blog

JUNE 11, 2024

There have already been three known cases that have crossed over from cows to humans, but, like the early days of COVID, we’re not actively testing or tracking cases (although we are doing some wastewater tracking ). “No

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Genetic testing -- she had a maternal aunt with breast cancer -- shows her to have a BRCA-2 mutation. There is a very small chance a person can be harmed directly by the screening test or negative, downstream, confirmatory tests. People suffer from anxiety related to the test and the results. See the links above.

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Valant

JULY 24, 2024

The information recorded may include symptoms, medical history, test results, diagnoses, treatment plans, prescription medications, and progress made at appointments. Plan : Further diagnostic tests and other tasks are included here, along with proposed treatment including patient education, medications, further therapy, and so on.

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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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19 Labs

JULY 20, 2021

Healthcare companies are now moving quickly to provide full care in patients’ homes, rural communities, schools, and pharmacies using the latest diagnostic devices combined with telehealth. SAN MATEO, CA — JULY 20, 2021 — The hospital-at-home trend is rapidly changing the healthcare industry globally and throughout the Gulf countries.

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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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Minority Nurse

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

For some patients, their cardiovascular issues aren’t immediately identifiable by vital signs or diagnostic tests. As a cardiovascular nurse, I have always relied on my assessments, diagnostic labs, and exams, as well as my patient’s verbal accounts to develop a safe plan of care to support good health outcomes.

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