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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. 2019 Apr 1;48(4):e169-e174. He initially presented to his pediatrician two months prior with 10 days of cough and unexplained fevers. References Palla J, Sockrider MM. Pediatr Ann.

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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

PEMBlog

For more specific recommendations related to diagnosis and management of SARS-CoV-2, please see www.aap.org/en/pages/2019-novel-coronavirus-covid-19-infections/ ) · Hospitalized patients where tests impacts cohorting decisions, like in intensive care. antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., Hosp Pediatr. Pediatrics.

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An Arm and a Leg: The Prescription Drug Playbook, Part I

Physician's Weekly

In January of last year, Cole went to a Walgreens in Appleton, Wisconsin, to get refills on the medication he used to control his asthma. A few days later, he had a massive asthma attack. Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. He left without it. He was 22 years old.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

We used the first six years of the dataset to form a predictive model using Holt-Winters forecasting (a time series predictive method based on trends and seasonality), and then compared the observed data from November 2019 to November 2020 with the model to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on prescribing.