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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Lymphoma D.

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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common complication of diabetes mellitus and is the leading cause of blindness in working age Americans. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And then from a dementia and multiple different diagnoses, how much should hospice look the same for everyone, or tailored to the patient or the diagnosis that we’re dealing with? I threw out a lot.

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