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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

ECHO Concussion was launched in 2019 to teach clinicians a comprehensive approach to concussion diagnosis and management. Results From November 2019 to June 2024, 636 clinicians attended ECHO Concussion sessions. The qualitative descriptive approach was used to inductively code FGD transcripts. 11 (9%) participated in FGDs.

Management

Management Education Illness Chronic Condition

PEMPix 2024 Online Case #4: Frozen Ever After

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis The child protection team and orthopedics were consulted due to concern for possible healing femur fracture. This is the last of the four cases. mg/dL] Phosphorus 6.7 Reference Range 3.2-6.2

Routine Screenings

Routine Screenings Patient-Centered Diagnosis Clinic

PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. This is the second of the four cases.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma

Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

In our direct primary care setting, we take the time to deep-dive and explain options to our patients so they’re comfortable with a diagnosis and treatment plan that might not require an X-ray. Maybe they think it’s time to consult an orthopedic surgeon for immediate joint replacement. Scans are expensive and require scheduling.

Management

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Board-Certified

Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

2024-066854. 2024-066855. We really do have so many resources at our disposal, and it is very hard for them to know everything about kids and adults while practicing in locations where they don’t have these consultants available 24/7. Pediatrics. 2024;154(1):e2024066854. doi:10.1542/peds.2024-066854. Pediatrics.

Family

Family Families Hospital Patient-Centered

Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Hypertensive emergencies can result either from primary or secondary hypertension.

Hypertension

Hypertension Management Physicals Lab Testing

FDA to Require Breast Density Notification Amongst Other Updates to Mammography Regulations

FDA Law

MARCH 15, 2023

A reader may miss a cancerous lesion if the image quality is poor, resulting in a false negative diagnosis, which could delay treatment and result in an avoidable death. Conversely, a diagnosis could be a false positive, which can occur when an otherwise normal tissue is erroneously read as abnormal.

Healthcare

Healthcare Diagnosis Provider Individual

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2024 Jan-. Pediatr Rev. Pediatrics.

Consulting

Consulting Individual Family Families

What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

A planned expansion of MAID to include people with mental illness was placed on hold until March 2024. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. They could have a prognosis of years, or decades. Eric: Yeah.

Illness

Illness IT Medical Provider

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. Should they?

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

And I wonder, now, was this 2024 version sort of a redo? For the foreseeable future, it’s going to be right 90%, 95%, 85%, so the safety system, of course, will be, the AI says something, makes a recommendation or gives you a draft diagnosis or drafts your note, and then, the failsafe is, the doctor reads it over. This is GPT-4.

Electronics

Electronics IT Patients Healthcare

Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Alex 10:53 Yeah, or like palliative care if they get a consult for whatever reason, but not trn consult, like standardized, you know, randomized to palliative care versus whatever they’re doing before. If they get palliative care consult, they get one. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital

Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. And since starting the clinic, median time for consult to death was. Kara 10:43 Those are inpatient consults? Eric 10:44 No, all consults. Alex 10:40 Wow.

Family

Family Families Patient-Centered Patients

What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. This way of coping with pluralism is a tradition that he really extended and pioneered and was deeply influential. And a lot of my work has kind of been that vein. Alex 04:49 Amyloid.

IT

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

PEMPix 2024 Online Case #4: Frozen Ever After

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist

Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

FDA to Require Breast Density Notification Amongst Other Updates to Mammography Regulations

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

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