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Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for the initial treatment of acute pyelonephritis in adults: a systematic review [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. These include minimizing resource utilization and decreasing the risk of complications associated with IV antibiotics such as diarrhea. Two independent reviewers performed study selection, data extraction and quality assessment.

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Better Care Models Needed for Young Adults With Obesity

Physician's Weekly

Obesity drugs were not utilized often in young adults and adolescents despite high complication rates, prompting researchers to call for chronic, holistic care. Obesity in children and young adults is associated with the early development of several obesity-related complications,” wrote Theresa Hunter Gibble, PhD , and colleagues.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

Eye conditions through augmented reality Patient education is key in prevention and it also gives the best chance for physicians to arrive at the most accurate diagnosis based on their patients’ explanation of their symptoms. and a specificity of 95.5%. The use of Orca Health’s EyeDecide could bring exactly this result.

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

Donors, government ministries, agencies and academic partners regularly cascade requests for data that multiply and complicate the simple interaction into a complex, and often redundant, set of data requirements for the same singular interaction. Digital uptake is more prevalent in high-volume and urban hospital networks.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

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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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often when there’s a cognitive concern, it’s a family member that is calling saying, “I just want to make sure my mom should still be driving after this happened, or after this diagnosis.” If they’re in a major car crash, they’re going to have more long-term complications probably than a 20-year-old would.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

By diagnosis? And that’s where things like diagnosis triggers, if you will, prognostic triggers, and then the ideal need-based triggers. But there’s no real system and systematic electronic way to identify need-based palliative care right now. That gets really complicated as well. Kate: A diagnosis.