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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

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). It was then externally validated in a contemporary US population (EAST-PC data).

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Rural-urban differences in continuity of primary care among persons with prediabetes [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

A binary indicator for rural was the main independent variable and was defined using the 2010 Census Bureau’s Urban and Rural classification. Persons diagnosed with prediabetes and/or an HbA1c between 5.7-6.4% A healthcare system located throughout central and northeast Pennsylvania serving a large rural population.

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World’s Premier Cancer Institute Faces Crippling Cuts and Chaos

Physician's Weekly

Nearly 2 million Americans are diagnosed with malignancies every year. Those populations have higher rates of certain cancer diagnoses and are more likely to receive diagnoses later than white or heterosexual people. . “We use the word ‘drone attack’ now regularly,” one worker said of grant terminations.