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MARCH 4, 2025

You are invited to share your experiences with Connect Care! Connect Care is once again working with the Arch Collaborative to assess best practices in healthcare information technology and the use of electronic health records (EHR).

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

years of follow-up, death due to coronary heart disease (CHD) or nonfatal myocardial infarction (MI) was lower in the CTA arm (38% relative; 0.7% This was the original primary endpoint ). absolute risk reduction) but the difference did not reach statistical significance.

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Scrubs

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Attempted Cover-Up Following her death, the suspect allegedly attempted to conceal his involvement by cleaning the scene of the incident. A City and Community in Mourning In the days following the news of her death, a candlelight vigil was held in Budapest to honor Michalski’s memory.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 11, 2025

A 2014 follow-up study by de Jonge analyzed 743,070 low-risk planned home and hospital births and found no significant difference in perinatal or neonatal mortality. A notable example was a paper by Pang et al. that failed to differentiate between planned and unplanned home births.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Actual cardiologists performed these visits, which included up-titration of meds, but, also, as Adam correctly notes, patients had MD-level assessments. Most experts held this trial up as a win for aggressive up-titration of medicines. Here were the results. My Comments: The prominent journal Lancet published this trial.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Beggs shared the videos on TikTok where she quickly racked up hundreds of thousands of views. She now has over 600k followers on the app. She said she feels a responsibility to show up for her audience now that she’s built such a devoted following. In fact, it’s enhancing her knowledge and experience.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 28, 2024

In a follow up post , Adam Cifu, my friend and colleague, took me to task. ” Photo via instagram (you can follow me there). Those are the loose, plastic ones that end up in the ocean, strangling turtles and other sea creatures, after being used for armed robberies or college protests. A reduction of 3%.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2025

In the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals’ Follow-Up Study, people with higher linoleic acid intake actually had a lower risk of developing diabetes. Diabetes: Concerns about seed oils causing diabetes have also been refuted by large-scale studies.

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

I begin with this semantic point about causal language because it ends up being one of my two main criticisms of the analysis. This occurs because older patients have more drug-drug interactions, decreased drug clearance, and less robust reflex mechanisms to maintain blood pressure when standing up. These were the treatment arm.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

RM is a 72-year-old man who comes to the office for routine follow-up of spinal stenosis, hypertension, and peripheral vascular disease. I was obsessed with the sport long before I began telling people, “I want to be a doctor when I grow up.” Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication. It is March.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 10, 2025

Trial Results After 3 years of follow-up, the CAC score-informed group showed significantly greater reductions LDL-C levels compared to usual care. IOW, the primary outcome was a surrogate measure for an important outcome. (I I will come back to this.)

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2025

In the years that followed, I learned of efforts to remove racial identifiers from medical textbooks and test questions. Primarily, the harm is that we teach students that race is more than something our ancestors made up. Medical educators encourage trainees to think in racist ways when we stereotype races by disease.

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Scrubs

APRIL 6, 2023

“It just doesn’t follow the science. ” Now that the state mask mandate is null and void, it’s up to each facility to implement its own mask requirements. Chin-Hong said he expects many hospitals will still require masks for all patients and staff but that requiring every facility to mask up no longer makes sense.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

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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Scrubs

AUGUST 23, 2023

that I decided to follow his lead. When he could barely hold himself up, I again thought to myself, “We really should just use the lift…” and said that to the CNA. “No, We stood him up and he was dead weight. I sat in the room with him for a while to make sure he could hold himself up in the chair. It was tough.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” People that tested negative were followed. The follow-up was 11.2 Gastric cancer developed least in those not infected, followed by those who received curative therapy, followed by those with untreated H. The results were striking.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 18, 2023

They are able to follow directions without problem and can easily communicate with patients and families to understand their needs and explain treatments. Next up, flexibility, attention to detail and… The post Top 10 Qualities of a Great Nurse appeared first on Scrubs | The Leading Lifestyle Magazine for the Healthcare Community.

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Sensible Medicine

DECEMBER 16, 2024

With that in mind, the reported outcomes, such as the reduction in heart failure hospitalizations at three years, and even the questionable reduction in total mortality in the first years of follow-up, are likely to be the result of statistical noise. For example, the use of beta-blockers at the end of follow-up was reported as 38.1%

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Scrubs

MARCH 6, 2023

Palmer reached out to the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a follow up,” the department said. The no-driving period can last up to a year or more, but the length depends on the type of tumor and the treatment they received. On February 19, 2023, Ms. The officers wrote that she is now doing well and in recovery.

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Scrubs

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Her six-year-old daughter Lorette had a fever and needed to be picked up. The nurse quickly set up a birthing area in her office using a low pediatric cot, the same place where she normally treats kids for tummy aches. They wound up in Costa Rica but she struggled to find work in a foreign country.

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Practice Index

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

By midday, they had responded, expressing interest in meeting us to discuss a follow-up piece incorporating our views and experiences. Well, yes try shutting us up, if you dare! By 10:45 AM, we had gathered comments from our members, compiled them and sent them to the articles author.

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Health Prime

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 30, 2024

Commentary The authors conclude that “protocol-directed active surveillance offers a clear set of expectations for patients and clinicians to follow.” This cohort was primarily made up of insured, educated, and non-Hispanic white patients. ” This is perhaps too strong a conclusion given this study’s design.

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Scrubs

AUGUST 7, 2023

There’s no excuse to not clean up after yourself. Even if you don’t have the chance to deal with your mess when you make it, ensure that you check all the rooms and patients you dealt with before your shift is over, and clean up after yourself. But this stress can build up and lead to a toxic work environment. You all know it.

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Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Dereck Paul is the co-founder of Glass Health, a start-up in San Francisco that offers artificial intelligence chatbot services to doctors looking to ease the burden of routine processes, such as patient documentation. And now doctors are using it to answer routine clinical questions.

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EvidenceCare

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

CMS Policy Changes to Reduce Costs Financial pressures are rising as CMS implements the updated Version 28 Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) model , which introduces changes aimed at limiting types of codes that are most used for up-coding or over-coding to help rein in spending. We call them CMS 4201 violations.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This week will be a straight up critical appraisal (with a bit of a critique of Wall Street Journalism Churnalism thrown in). The studies leading up to the Annals of Oncology study demonstrated that the most effective assay targeted specific methylated, cell-free DNA. We then work up every positive test.

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We Care Online

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Staying up-to-date with the latest practices, regulations, and medication management techniques is essential to providing the highest quality of care. Our update class ensures that youre up-to-date with state and federal regulations, helping you stay compliant and avoid potential legal issues.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 19, 2024

What follows is one of those written by Mariana Barosa. Over time, following guidelines became synonymous with delivering optimal evidence-based care, giving rise to what I call guideline-driven EBM. In 2005, the average primary care physician would need 18h/day to follow recommendations for chronic disease and preventive care.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 20, 2025

The providers who make my job harder and make me feel useless insinuate that we administrators follow rules blindly, as if someone like me were part of a herd of sheep and not an adult with a master’s degree.

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Sensible Medicine

JULY 9, 2023

Yet, like most unexpected clinical changes in my career, I ended up learning unexpected truths. There were several concerning spots on his CT scan and in the years that followed a few were treated. In fact, that view was vindicated a few years later, as the all cause mortality benefit vanished in follow up.

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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. I started with a steroid two years ago, but the pain was too severe and I ended up with an injection in my back. What follows is the suggested reply to the partner of a patient of mine.

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Scrubs

JULY 21, 2023

The doc in question might act as though you’ve whapped him or her across the nose with a rolled-up newspaper, but it’s still your right to call him or her out. Sometimes the doc will follow you and keep going, but mostly he or she will give you your space. Simply saying, “That behavior is unacceptable” is totally within your rights.

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Scrubs

JULY 28, 2023

Physician: “Emphasize proper follow-up care.” Physician: “The patient has a good fund of general knowledge” Translation: ”She reads more than I do.” Physician: “Every four hours around the clock.” Translation: ”This person won’t take pain medicine and needs to be encouraged to do so.” Physician: “There will be moderate discomfort.”

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Scrubs

MARCH 3, 2023

She is a hospice nurse and educator who spends her time teaching her followers about the end-of-life experience. So, I started playing around a little bit, sharing my message, and before I knew it, I developed quite a following,” says Haver. Julie McFadden shares content on TikTok under the username @HospiceNurseJulie.

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Scrubs

JULY 27, 2023

The following exercises can bolster your core, legs, and back strength, which are essential for a psychiatric nurse. To do a squat, stand with feet hip-width apart, bend at the knees and hips as if sitting back into a chair, keeping the chest upright and the back straight, before standing back up to the initial position.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They were dedicated, followed directions, worked hard, were skilled at the “customer service” side of medicine, and were mature enough to know that medicine was for them. One could also follow the lead of the tech industry and invest in the selection process.

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