Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The context: Immigrants, particularly those moving from lower to higher-income countries, often exhibit a heightened susceptibility to non-communicable diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes (T2D), which may manifest at an earlier age and present with different complications compared to the native population. 0.83, HR 0.70; 95% CI 0.65-0.76,

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Chronic Disease Community 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Giant cell arteritis is one of the most common when we see it, particularly when it presents with signs and symptoms of head and neck ischemia. If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms. But treatment first, securing the diagnosis is secondary and often delayed.

Management 59

Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

PEMBlog

JANUARY 21, 2025

The concurrent circulation of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), COVID-19, and norovirus during peak viral seasons presents a diagnostic challenge in pediatric emergency settings. Common Complications : Otitis media : Diagnosis is supported by the presence of a bulging tympanic membrane with purulent effusion.

Clinic 52

Clinic Complication Diagnosis Illness 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

No prior history of atrial fibrillation – just hypertension and diabetes. The second major factor complicating our diagnostic reasoning during this time is the dramatic shift in prevalence of the disease in the community. It started off like any other cardiology admission that we’d had during that month.

Illness 52

Illness Diagnosis Emergency Room Diagnose 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People experiencing homelessness (PEH) and type 2 diabetes are hospitalized more often, develop diabetes complications, and die on average 10 years earlier than their housed peers due to poorly controlled chronic physical and behavioral health conditions.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Medical Complication Physicals 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 26, 2023

Can you give us some examples, even the ones you mentioned in the paper, about how some of these structural races, like these common things that may occur in the hospital or in the clinics that we use, and we may not even think about? Eric: And it’s even more complicated, right? Eric: Six months ago. Eric: Yes. I just choose GFR.

IT 91

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Patients 91

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. We can figure out how to keep them in the hospital for a month, or do all these other imaging tests, but we can’t do this one thing. William: Not the future, but the present.

Patient-Centered 129

Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 129