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Declining Uveitic Glaucoma Incidence and Subtype Risks

Physician's Weekly

Demographic data were collected, and cumulative as well as yearly incidence and prevalence of uveitic glaucoma from 2013 to 2022 were calculated. The cumulative incidence was 5 per 10,00,000, and prevalence was 27 per 1,00,000 between 2013 and 2022, both declining during the study period. years); 55.0% (n=16,875, 95% CI 54.4-55.9%)

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

A struggle for enough staffing When the federal government launched the readmission penalty program in 2013, staff with OSF HealthCare knew their readmission rates fueled by bouncebacks from SNFs were running between 18% and 25%. Contracting with an outside company brought the coverage and care coordination needed to prevent readmissions.

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Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

While echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose LVSD, its limited accessibility in primary care poses challenges. Setting or Dataset: A dataset was used, consisting of 350 long-term female breast cancer survivors included between 2013 and 2016 in general practices in the Netherlands. For NT-proBNP, a sensitivity of 50.9%

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Fast Facts: Traumatic Bladder Rupture

PEMBlog

To diagnose bladder rupture, CT cystography is the preferred diagnostic test. While routine CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis can differentiate between intraperitoneal and extraperitoneal fluid, they are unreliable for diagnosing bladder rupture since they cannot distinguish urine from ascites (fluid accumulation in the abdominal cavity).

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A New Outlook: How Carrier Screening Shaped One Family’s Future

Myriad Genetics

Because we’d had the carrier screen, we could make a plan: [Emily] was tested at three days old, diagnosed at five days old, and treated at 5.5 1 , 1–15 (2013). “We started asking questions because he still wasn’t walking. We went through the pediatrician, the physical therapist, and none of those people brought up carrier screening.

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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

1, 2013, weren’t eligible for vaccination, but those even slightly younger were eligible. Kim Beckham, an insurance agent in Victoria, Texas, had seen friends suffer so badly from shingles that she wanted to receive the first approved shingles vaccine as soon as it became available, even if she had to pay for it out-of-pocket.

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Sometimes We Just Can’t Be Ideal

CDOCS

<p><span style="font-size:14px;">The Spear Facially Generated Treatment Planning workshop I took early in my career had a massive impact on the amount of comprehensive dentistry I can now see and diagnose and present to my patients. I present to you Greg.</span></p>