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. But it’s just a CXR right?

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. The clinical utility of respiratory viral testing in hospitalized children: a meta-analysis. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., JAMA Pediatr.

Patients 52

Patients Illness Hospital Management 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

I’m a dementia specialist, and so what I was experiencing was that many people were coming to see me to get a diagnosis of a very straightforward case of mild Alzheimer’s or moderate Alzheimer’s disease, whose doctors had told them there was nothing wrong with them or that their memory was better than my own, says the doctor.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

So we know the individual actually has a swallowing disorder at that point, whereas proactive care is having more of that multidisciplinary approach, where the speech pathologist is part of the care team, we’re involved at the time of diagnosis, or soon after, and we can start doing our assessments.

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IT Hospital Patient-Centered Individual 125

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And we’ll tell you the scope of practice, and this is top of license, and this is how you can best utilize a social worker and, no, actually that skillset belongs over here.” What does this diagnosis mean to you? And sometimes social workers feel intimidated by it, too. And you feed the medicine in.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. What I’d really like to see is that when POLST is utilized, it’s utilized correctly.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127