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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. Remember most healthy children don’t have any indication for testing and a positive test does not necessarily mean that the virus is causing the present symptoms.

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome Amber Barnato, who’s a palliative care physician and health service researcher, and she’s director of the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. So we did a perfect cross so that the race and actual primary diagnosis was perfectly matched across groups.