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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. By some estimates, one in four patients discharged to a SNF are readmitted. “We developed our own program to follow patients into SNFs,” Mr. .

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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001139 Prediabetes, a health condition with blood sugar levels higher than normal but not yet high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes, increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease. Of those, 76.8% Conflict of Interest: None declared

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Declining Uveitic Glaucoma Incidence and Subtype Risks

Physician's Weekly

They used the TriNetX US database to identify a uveitic glaucoma cohort, including patients with ICD-10 codes for uveitis and either glaucoma, ocular hypertension, or corticosteroid response diagnosed on the same day or after uveitis onset. years); 55.0% (n=16,875, 95% CI 54.4-55.9%) 55.9%) were female, and 50.7% (n=15,555, 95% CI 50.1-51.3%)

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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.

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Fast Facts: Traumatic Bladder Rupture

PEMBlog

However, in pediatric patients whose pelvic bones are not fully developed, the bladder is more prone to injury. To diagnose bladder rupture, CT cystography is the preferred diagnostic test. To diagnose bladder rupture, CT cystography is the preferred diagnostic test. 2013 Jan;189(1):288-93. 2013 Apr;32(2):239-46.

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

Myriad Genetics

In fact, in 2017 the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that every pregnant person be offered information on carrier screening and that all patients who are either considering pregnancy or are already pregnant should specifically be offered screenings for SMA and cystic fibrosis. 1 , 1–15 (2013).

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

Physician's Weekly

In analyzing electronic health records for almost 800,000 patients, the researchers found the vaccines to be 75% effective against acute infection, meaning illness that was serious enough to send a patient to a health care provider. 1, 2013, weren’t eligible for vaccination, but those even slightly younger were eligible.