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Sepsis Screening Decreases Mortality. Well, not really.

Sensible Medicine

This would mean that instituting sepsis screening would lead to escalating treatment in patients – transferring them to the ICU, escalating antibiotics, bringing in more consultants – without benefiting them. I’ve predicted that any screening tool would be more sensitive but less specific than a well-trained doctor.

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Do you think a bone marrow transplant is worth it?

Sensible Medicine

“I am on bone marrow transplant— which basically means that for some people with blood cancer we transfer a different person’s immune system into them. At the same time, the profession has— in my opinion— not been good about testing dogma. “The people who get a transplant, they can get very sick?

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Money in Medical Education Makes Me Sad

Sensible Medicine

Examples: patients with new heart failure get coronary angiography; patients with chest pain without evidence of heart attack get stress tests; certain drugs and devices become favored over generics. Practice patterns. Ways of doing things. The curious thing about many therapeutic fashions is their lack of evidentiary support. Less money.

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Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire

The Healthcare Blog

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. Companies that control both insurance and care delivery have a great deal of flexibility in what the accountants term “transfer pricing”.

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Post #2 Back-to-Sleep Series

Sensible Medicine

One third of the retained milestones were transferred to different ages; 68% of those transferred were moved to older ages.” Comparison of 1967 Denver Developmental Screening Tests and 2022 CDC milestones, 75 th percentile. Let’s look at 1967 vs. 2022 for the DDST and the CDC: Table 2.

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Nurse Allegedly Refused to Send an Ambulance for Migrant Child Who Died in Custody

Scrubs

The family was being held there after Reyes Alvarez tested positive for the flu. He said the agency has launched a review of cases involving medically vulnerable migrant children in detention to make sure they were properly transferred out of CBP custody.

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NEW CE: Inpatient Transfers

NHA Now

While performing patient transfers, patient care technicians are at high risk of these types of injuries. Safe movement bolsters patients’ health and is required for the completion of many personal care tasks, diagnostic testing, and medical procedures. Patients are also at risk for falls and injuries as you assist them.