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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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

PEMBlog

Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. This often requires hospitalization and transfusionin one series, 87% of children with transient aplastic crisis required packed red blood cell transfusions. Diagnosis is confirmed with PCR, often as part of a viral panel, or via characteristic bone marrow findings.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? 7,1 (2012): 33-5. This is the first of the four cases. About 2 weeks prior, he had an ED evaluation after a 2-3 foot fall onto a carpeted floor with subsequent vomiting. Epidermoid cyst B.

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis. Enter the real diagnosis—human rights violations—with clear evidence-based solutions. Since 2012, I’ve spoken to thousands of suicidal doctors—even published a book of physician suicide letters. I’ve witnessed all far too frequently among physicians. Not burnout.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. 2012 Sep 5;4:85-92. Quick References 2024; 10.1542/aap.ppcqr.396258. Patel NH, Romero SK, Kaelber DC. Open Access Emerg Med. doi: 10.2147/OAEM.S32809.

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As Federal Health Grants Shrink, Memory Cafes Help Dementia Patients and Their Caregivers

Physician's Weekly

Losing Memory, and Other Things, Too Kennedy’s diagnosis led him to retire, ending a decades-long career as a software engineer at the University of Scranton. They have given him purpose, Kennedy said, and help him cope with negative emotions around his diagnosis. Socializing can also become more difficult after diagnosis.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’” He has taken on the role of dad or uncle to many.