Sensible Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

A 76-year-old woman presents to a community hospital after waking with garbled speech and right-sided weakness. Case 1: Excess An elderly woman is admitted to a community hospital with a minor stroke. The hospital does an excellent job. By the time she leaves the hospital, she has no residual symptoms. I love my job.

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Forbes Healthcare

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Dr. Fauci was hospitalized for WNV. And a New Hampshire resident tests positive for 3 mosquito viruses. Multiple deaths from EEE were reported the past several weeks. Is the risk increasing?

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Medicare covers GRAIL GRAIL is a single blood test to screen for multiple cancers, typically solid organ tumors. If the test is positive, it is entirely unclear what the optimum work up should be. We have no evidence that GRAIL testing will lower all cancer mortality. Manufacturers have to show benefits exceed harms.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 9, 2024

The model, if finalized, will test whether putting hospitals on the hook for kidney transplant access and quality might improve the nation’s shoddy system of organ procurement and transplantation.

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The Healthcare Blog

APRIL 2, 2024

Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. non-hospital) medical groups with significant at-risk (e.g. Source: UNH 10K, Kaiser Annual Report Optum Health receives $57.7

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 12, 2024

For instance, the estimate includes only the initial cost of the mammogram, PSA test, and CT scan. As everyone knows, the downstream costs to evaluate positive tests likely exceed initial costs many times over. Most hospitals have dedicated sections for screening. Randomized controlled trials output average effects.

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Medical Economics

JANUARY 21, 2025

The newly approved TriVerity combines a single-use test cartridge and the Myrna instrument to deliver results at the point of care, informing decisions related to antimicrobial therapy, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and guide patient disposition.

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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 tests give you more than just a diagnosis.

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Health Populi

JUNE 10, 2020

I’d interviewed Roy at CES 2020 in Las Vegas in January to catch up on consumer health developments, and the March meeting was going to cover Philips’ innovations on the hospital and acute care side of the business, as well as to learn more about Roy’s new role as head of Connected Care.

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Health Populi

APRIL 21, 2021

In the COVID-19 pandemic, as peoples’ daily lives shifted closer and closer to home, and for some weeks and months home-all-the-time, health care, too, moved beyond brick-and-mortar hospitals and doctors’ offices. In 2019, J.D. Power found that only 10% of health consumers had been using telehealth services.

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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

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Instead, he designed a randomized controlled trial to test this idea. Along with a team of researchers at numerous hospitals, they randomized ≈1000 patients who had had stroke of unknown cause and evidence of atrial cardiopathy to either treatment with an oral anticoagulant (apixaban) vs aspirin. He and his team had a great idea.

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Sensible Medicine

JANUARY 15, 2024

Doctors and hospitals incur penalties if a patient with an MI is not on a beta-blocker—unless there is a darn good reason put down in the chart. Here comes a key feature: patients were randomized 5-21 days after the hospital admission. This trial tested the use of early IV beta-blocker (atenolol) in patients with MI.

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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. The debate has mostly changed from simple and cheap vs. sophisticated and expensive to the right test at the right time. You make a hypothesis - a possible diagnosis - and then you test that hypothesis.

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Scrubs

MARCH 31, 2023

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. They underwent various diagnostic tests, all of which came back negative. ” I knew I couldn’t rush this. .

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Forbes Healthcare

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Patients can now access the test with their physicians at 20 hospitals around the nation and get reimbursed by their insurance companies. Joshi says Valar could be "the next billion-dollar company in cancer," and he's working on developing similar tests for more cancer types, including pancreatic, ovarian and lymphoma.

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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. But trials are best case scenarios. A: It does not.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

MAY 10, 2024

The health system’s electronic health records, MyChart patient portal and several systems for ordering tests and medications are unavailable, Ascension said.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There are 1,844 rural hospitals operating in the U.S. That number is down by 19 in the 2019 calendar year, the worst year of rural hospital closings seen in the past decade. That hockey-stick growth of closures is shown in the first chart, where 34 rural hospitals shut down in the past 2 years.

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Scrubs

APRIL 5, 2023

Marc Succi, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital who has been evaluating the bot, says it can produce a diagnosis on the level of a third or fourth-year medical student when presented with hypothetical information about a patient. . “So, what tests they would order and what treatments they would order.”

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Scrubs

MARCH 23, 2023

The nurse at the hospital gave her some medication and sent her home, but she went back several days later when the pain returned. Go back to the ER and they’ll do some more tests,’” Byrnes said. Byrnes initially thought the issue was related to COVID-19. They’re like, ‘we don’t know what to tell you.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 30, 2023

Patients present with troublesome symptoms that they “just want checked out before the weekend” and I’m left either worrying about them all weekend or admitting them to the hospital where I know little will happen for the next two days. He had also had had a normal stress test a couple of years before.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

There are nights when you the leave the hospital, but your mind remains behind. At the same time, the profession has— in my opinion— not been good about testing dogma. The dinner was supposed to begin at 8pm, but I didn’t arrive till 9pm. I sat down at the table: preoccupied, disheveled and flustered.

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Sensible Medicine

MARCH 14, 2025

If sepsis screening was shown to be beneficial in one hospital, would it be beneficial in another, with an entirely different set of caregivers? Article Background With all that as background, I was excited when I saw the article Electronic Sepsis Screening Among Patients Admitted to Hospital Wards in JAMA.

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Sensible Medicine

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

If applicants are more impressive on paper, but no more impressive in the clinics and hospitals, aren’t we doing something wrong? They spend money on test prep courses and needle their teachers into inflating grades. Competition for the slots in “premier” (frou-frou?) programs is even stiffer.

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Scrubs

JULY 21, 2023

I think my nurses loved me when I was hospitalized. The nurse advised him it would be cheaper if he went to a COVID testing place because ER will “test for everything”. I just judge them quietly -Dan My dad was hospitalized recently, and I had to sit on my hands or play on my phone to keep myself from micromanaging.

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Sensible Medicine

APRIL 16, 2024

The idea was that interventions could then be tested in the high-risk groups. The tool developed on the PLCO participants was used to analyze the CXRs of outpatients taken in 2010 or 2011 at 1 of 2 hospitals ( The General or The Brigham ). This was long ago enough that I was awed by the potential.

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Scrubs

JANUARY 31, 2023

Federal prosecutors say 37% of the aspiring nurses who purchased the degrees to get around having to do the coursework required to sit for the National Council Licensure Examination passed the test. Local officials in Georgia confirmed that at least three of the suspected nurses were employed at a veteran’s hospital in Atlanta.

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Healthcare Dive - Practice Management

JANUARY 14, 2025

Hospitals with more financial resources and technical expertise were more likely to locally test their models, suggesting a potential digital divide that could impact patient care.

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Sensible Medicine

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The MINT trial tested these two strategies. In the hospital, restrictive transfusion policies are in vogue. I may be wrong, but I think we need to look at this trial with more common sense than statistical testing. (We measure something called the hemoglobin level or Hgb to quantify the anemia.) No drug companies. No devices.

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Health Populi

MAY 4, 2020

The most visible product of the new drive-through health care is COVID-19 testing, which keeps people in their cars and out of brick-and-mortar doctors’ offices, clinical labs, and hospital outpatient centers. While labs and hospitals are offering coronavirus testing where they can access testing supplies, they are doing so.

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ACI Medical & Dental School

JANUARY 9, 2025

Medical Assistants work in healthcare settings such as clinics, hospitals, and doctor’s offices. 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.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 20, 2024

These authors write that projected cost of andexanet alone would exceed the entire hospital reimbursement in 74% of patients by a median of $7604. This is exactly why new treatments need to be tested in proper randomized controlled trials. The projected cost of andexanet is ≈ $22,000.

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Sensible Medicine

JUNE 8, 2024

Below some amount of clinical work (not sure exactly, but often less than 1 month a year of service), a doctor becomes very bad: unable to manage basic internal medical problems like sugar or high blood pressure in hospitalized patients. Is there a minimum amount of clinical work below which a doctor is out of practice?

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Sensible Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

We so desperately need RCT data for our screening tests. In a multinational, open-label, randomized, parallel-group trial, patients aged 18–85 years, admitted to hospital with acute heart failure, were randomly assigned to either usual care or high-intensity care. So why does this article not make me more bullish on mammography?

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Her outpatient follow-up appointments were scheduled; we had reviewed her safety plan; she felt well and ready to leave the hospital. Her hospital course was uneventful, and she made good therapeutic use of her time on the unit. She had been brought to our hospital from jail, where she had been taken for some misdemeanor.

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Scrubs

JUNE 7, 2023

Records show the child suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, but the agency confirmed that Border Patrol officials and medical professionals allegedly repeatedly denied requests to send Reyes Alvarez to a hospital. The family was being held there after Reyes Alvarez tested positive for the flu. near Brownsville, Texas.

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