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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

It was discovered by accident back in 1975, so a little bit before I was born, and it was labeled B19 because of the sample number in a Hepatitis B screening panel. Parvovirus B19 is not routinely screened for in pregnancy, but vertical transmission can cause hydrops fetalis, stillbirth, and severe fetal anemia.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Going back to when I was shopping this idea around the health systems in 2012, we landed on the stepped-wedge design because no one was… I said before you couldn’t randomize people to get palliative care or not, specifically. Did they screen charts? Eric: And this was done pre-COVID, right? Scott: This was, yes. Eric: Yeah.