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Coach McLungsSM, Facilitating Shared Decision Making for Asthma - Patients and Caregivers Perspectives [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Asthma is a prevalent chronic disease that is difficult to manage and associated with marked disparities in outcomes. Coach McLungsSM (CML) is a pre-visit interactive, digital coaching experience that engages patients, caregivers, and providers in a tailored conversation about asthma and fosters SDM in creating a plan of care.

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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. Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home.