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Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze regional variations in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to acute respiratory infections, seeking to identify notable anomalies that suggest diverse diagnoses of the same condition.

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To develop and externally validate a simple risk score for influenza diagnosis based only on vaccination history and patient-reported symptoms. Outcome measures: In each study patient-reported symptoms were recorded and PCR used to diagnose influenza.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

James Stevermer and Kenneth Fink wrote in an AFP editorial : Few men diagnosed with and treated for prostate cancer will experience a mortality benefit, and an estimated 20% to 50% of those treated will never become symptomatic, even without treatment. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. At the end of the program, he was walking down the hall, you probably don’t remember this, but a woman I know who you had diagnosed with some type of Alzheimer’s went running after him down the hall. She had been included. And that was a transformative experience for her.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. I have oncology on the brain. I loved Areej’s article.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. I threw out a lot. Melissa: Yeah.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. What we know was evidence based before?