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PEMBlog
JUNE 2, 2025
While elevated blood pressure readings are critical data points, the presence of symptoms and signs of end-organ dysfunction are paramount in diagnosing a hypertensive emergency (Kamat 2024). Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. So, Alex, imagine you’re a seriously-ill hospitalized patient and I’m your doctor, unluckily for you.
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PEMBlog
JUNE 5, 2024
2012 Jan 13;61(RR-1):1-20. It’s particularly difficult to diagnose cervical spine injuries in kids under three because they can’t give you an accurate history and cooperate with the exam. Any patient with a cervical spine injury or a neurologic deficit They’re getting admitted to the hospital. MMWR Recomm Rep.
Physician's Weekly
JUNE 25, 2025
Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses. Half of new diagnoses today are in the South and a third are among people with low incomes. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.
Physicians News Digest
APRIL 3, 2025
Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. Nobody does these things except AHRQ,” she said.
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