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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Pre and Posttest Probability – Jack Penner

The Clinical Problem Solvers

As you walk down to the ER, you’re already creating a list of possible diagnoses in your mind. This new framing of diagnostic likelihood is your posttest probability , or the probability of each diagnosis after initial diagnostic tests have returned. You may even pull up your schemas for pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea.

Clinic 52
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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. An extended release (“ER”) opioid in legitimate pain management generally accompanies an IR opioid, with patients taking the ER opioid on a set schedule and the IR opioid as needed.

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

PEMBlog

We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. Understanding that imaging isn’t always necessary to make a diagnosis, and that’s something that I think today’s trainees need to hear, and also some of the families need to hear. and it can be overwhelming.

Families 101
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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

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. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.

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

GeriPal

I remember walking through San Francisco Airport with Bob, we just happened to be there at similar times, and saying, “Eric and I are thinking about starting a blog.” In the ’70s and ’80s, there were a lot of efforts to build AI programs, and the first problem that they tried to tackle was diagnosis.