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The Impact of a Health Professions Education Program on Concussion Management: A Multi-Methods Study of ECHO Concussion [Neurologic illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Concussions, or mild traumatic brain injuries, are diagnosed in 150,000 Ontarians annually, resulting in disruptions to work, school, and sport. ECHO Concussion was launched in 2019 to teach clinicians a comprehensive approach to concussion diagnosis and management. 11 (9%) participated in FGDs.

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Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze regional variations in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to acute respiratory infections, seeking to identify notable anomalies that suggest diverse diagnoses of the same condition.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 2: Walk Softly

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. She was seen at an urgent care the day prior to presentation, diagnosed with a viral exanthem, and discharged with oral prednisone. The family denies any sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, conjunctivitis.

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Disparities in Post-COVID Conditions among Persons with Disabilities: Findings from Primary Care Patients, 2019-2022 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Compare the incidence of post-COVID conditions (PCC) by pre-pandemic diagnosed by the type of disability. Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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

PEMBlog

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Messaging for patients and families When children have a viral respiratory illness, it is usually pretty self evident based on their symptoms e.g. runny nose, cough, congestion.

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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 yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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