The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

[link] In this Clinical Reasoning Rafael Medina Subspecialty episode, Dr. Kuchal Agadi presents a case to Dr. John Woller and Dr. Areeb Masood of a 67 year-old male with altered mental status. areebmasoodMD Case presenter: Dr. Kuchal Agadi , is first year Resident at a community hospital in Chicago.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JULY 28, 2020

The Gender Gap in Diagnostic Reasoning: The Launch of Women in Diagnosis (WDx) Smitha Ganeshan, MD MBA Acknowledgements: Sharmin Shekarchian, MD, Emma Levine, MD, and Lindsey Shipley, MD, Daniel Minter, MD Medicine has a gender problem. The challenges of being a woman in medicine resonate with my own and many others’ experiences.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

AUGUST 25, 2019

Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! A CXR showed a left upper lobe consolidation, and he was treated with antibiotics for presumed community-acquired pneumonia. A lung biopsy demonstrated necrotizing granulomatous inflammation, and a diagnosis of GPA was made. A CT Chest showed multifocal cavitary lung nodules.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A new study from investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of Mass General Brigham, the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and the University of Pittsburgh, finds that COVID-19 "Test to Treat" sites—clinical centers launched based on a federal initiative to provide free testing, diagnosis, and immediate access to COVID-19 (..)

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

Would I’ve been able to reason my way to his underlying diagnosis from the initial data? I find it awe-inspiring to listen to clinicians pick up on subtle clues and use both intuitive and analytic reasoning to reach a final diagnosis. Parenthetically, the question around CT for the diagnosis of COVID-19 is interesting.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

The POUND mnemonic (ie, pulsatile quality, one-day duration, unilateral headache, nausea or vomiting, disabling intensity) can help clinicians make the diagnosis of migraine in primary care, and the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) quantifies headache severity.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

For the first time, the rate of autism diagnosis is higher among Black and Hispanic/Latine populations and for those from a lower socioeconomic background, although they continue to face diagnostic disparities compared with White populations. The demographic split found across analyzed studies was: Latine/Hispanic participants: 9.4%

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

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. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

However, the study authors suggest that assessing postural sway may be another route for early screening and diagnosis of DPN. Community-Based Study Researchers recruited study participants from an adult daycare center to evaluate whether balance and gait are predictive for DPN.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 4, 2025

In this episode we dive into the resurgence of Mycoplasma pneumoniae an atypical bacterial cause of community-acquired pneumonia thats making waves in pediatric emergency medicine. Well cover its clinical presentation, epidemiology, diagnostic approach, and management, including why standard beta-lactam antibiotics wont work.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 26, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast, we explore the clinical pearls behind “no-zone” management, how to distinguish hard and soft signs, when to image versus operate, and why airway always comes first. Penetrating neck injuries in children are rare—but when they happen, the stakes are high.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The draft guidance states that this addition is consistent with FDA’s obligations under the Substance Use-Disorder Prevention That Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment (SUPPORT) for Patients and Communities Act , which required FDA to update existing guidance documents to address how the Agency may apply breakthrough criteria to such products.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2025

Our reader informed us of two additional prescribing/dispensing red flags that DEA has alleged are unresolvable that he wanted to share with the pharmacy community. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain United States, 2022 , 71 MMWR Recomm. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec. Deborah Dowell et al., 1, Recommendation 3.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Her most recent book is Dementia Friendly Communities: why we need them and how we can create them . It is a heavy load and yet I think all of us here think that it can be lighter when there are supportive programs and community engagements in place. And that’s why we need this community support, I think. Transcript.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. In Kaiser Permanente here, we exist to provide high-quality, affordable health care for our patients in the communities we serve.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

(Blooms: Apply; Kirkpatrick Level 2 Learning) Evaluate the risks and benefits of ultrasound, CT, and MRI for common pediatric emergencies and identify appropriate imaging modalities based on clinical guidelines discussed in the podcast. And so we routinely do outreach with our community providers. Subspecialists are key, right?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We have a discussion about the decision to remove race, a social construct, from clinical risk calculators (though I’m not 100% sold that race should always be removed – if removal is likely to worsen disparities for example – at least until a superior race-blind calculator can be developed). So you’re right.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? Most patients are afebrile by the third day of treatment and clinically improved within two weeks. Time course of symptom resolution in patients with community-acquired pneumonia.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

As many as 40% of these children will receive a chest x-ray (CXR) during their ED visit despite clinical guidelines advising most of these tests are low value. Understanding root causes of CXR use in the ED clinical setting is key to mitigating overuse of this test.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Alright, let’s scope things out.

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CDOCS

APRIL 7, 2021

This entails that I implement products that have been researched with scientific evidence and are proven as clinically viable. This will continue to build our reputation as local experts to assist our referring dentist in a team approach in providing the highest quality of care to our community.</span></p>

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GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

George 03:01 So I would say that as many clinical issues in older adults, we need to think about them in two ways. And we can talk about that later in terms of potential clinical implications that may have code. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office?

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. So, the consult will come in and then we’ll do what we call a clinical bedside evaluation, where we’ll go and see the patient at the bedside. Here at UW Health, we call it our Swallow Service. We actually have even subspecialization, which is kind of fun.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. A) to induce a referral of an individual to a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory; or. (B)

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Comments, including data from research and clinical practice, that provides evidence that an alternate maximum day supply (other than the proposed 30-day supply). Proposed practitioner recordkeeping obligations. Additional safeguards or flexibilities that should be considered with respect to the rule.

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Tiny Physician

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

This may result in errors in the diagnosis of the patient whom the doctor was examining initially. Studies have shown that increasing manpower at hospitals has resulted in improvements in resident perceived educational value and clinical experience of ward rounds [7].

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. A) to induce a referral of an individual to a recovery home, clinical treatment facility, or laboratory; or. (B)

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

The beautiful thing about it, it’s more than just having a career development award; it’s a community of aging researchers. One of the highlights really is the networking and the community that it fosters and highlighted, in some ways, by the meeting, which of course you often lead the sing along at. I agree with you.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Jackson Supreme Court decision has made it disproportionately difficult for people of lower socioeconomic status and members of the BIPOC community to access safe and legal abortion services. Setting or Dataset: Data was gathered by surveying the 15 family medicine residents at Mayo Clinic family medicine residency - Mankato.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eric 00:27 So we’re going to be talking about making the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in a primary care setting, not specialty care, but maybe we could talk a little bit about that. How much should it change how we think about making a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease in primary care? Great to be back. Absolutely.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

If in your own work, your clinical work, is this something that you see people struggle with you, you see yourself struggle with? So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

8) VisualDx Thousands of hospitals, clinics, and medical schools use VisualDx to aid diagnostic accuracy, enhance medical education, and improve patient outcomes. VisualDx is an excellent source for diagnostic clinical decision support. That’s what smartphone apps developed for physicians aim to go against.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

Corley, MD, PhD I think I can speak for most physicians in saying that one of the most frustrating situations we face is late diagnosis of a serious condition. To improve early diagnosis and drive better outcomes, KPNC launched a powerful, integrated screening program that has saved thousands of lives. A third of U.S. Douglas A.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

Knowing that the community is really underrepresented in sort of our knowledge, what we do, how we provide care that’s truly inclusive and welcoming. For instance, our indigenous communities, such as some of our indigenous communities use the Term two spirit, to identify their sexual orientation and also sometimes their gender identity.

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