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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. Establishing benchmarks for the hospitalized care of children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and pneumonia. antivirals for influenza) or public health recommendations (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).