Discharges Follow-Up Tests 
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? Case Facts Mr W, the patient, was a veteran who had been honorably discharged after serving 9 years in the Army, working as a mechanic.
Sensible Medicine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Trials select their patients, test the drugs in run-in periods and use research coordinators to help patients navigate complex health systems. The Trial STRONG-HF studied two treatment strategies after a patient was discharged from the hospital after treatment for heart failure. In the real-world, there is none of that.
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Sensible Medicine
JUNE 28, 2024
What there was -- courtesy of colleagues from across the country – were cases illustrating needless excess, careless follow-up, poor commitment to clinical care, and the devaluation of primary care that undermines our entire system. She is discharged on dual-antiplatelet agents and an increased statin dose.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 28, 2024
The USPSTF claims "screening interventions" decrease the prevalence of depression at six-month follow-up by an odds ratio of 0.60. This number is surprising when we consider the following: A meta-analysis of six RCTs found the benefit of SSRIs, compared to placebo, to be small and statistically insignificant at six months.
Sensible Medicine
MAY 31, 2023
Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. ” Seizing the interruption before I turned this into a full-blown therapy session, I got up and brought the tray over to her desk.
Health Populi
JANUARY 11, 2021
Once purchased, most consumers set up devices themselves. Data literacy, the ability to comprehensive one’s “numbers” displayed in lab test results and other patient-facing clinical communications. Please follow my posts here on Health Populi all this week during the consumer electronics show (100% virtual!)
Arkenea
JULY 2, 2024
HL7 promotes data sharing of records, lab reports, test results, etc., These challenges are as follows: A lack of a consistent data model, it is more implied. CDA includes the following elements for all clinical documents – stewardship, persistence, potential for authentication, wholeness, context, and human readability.
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