Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Calibration was assessed by plotting observed versus expected.

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Vaccination Telehealth Primary Care Diagnose 130

PEMBlog

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you think that there’s an abscess, you can diagnose it clinically by a localized area of induration or fluctuance or use an ultrasound. And so a lot of the previous studies on getting blood cultures were done in the immediate post Haemophilus influenzae B and Prevnar vaccine era. Vaccinate your children, people.

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IT Patients Diagnosis Clinic 59

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Common variants associated with general and MMR vaccine-related febrile seizures. Vaccines don’t cause autism, but they might cause febrile seizures. The absolute risk is small, and genetic susceptibility likely plays a role in seizures after vaccines. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Nat Genet 2014; 46:1274.

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Illness Vaccination Families Family 59