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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

These include minimizing resource utilization and decreasing the risk of complications associated with IV antibiotics such as diarrhea. After screening, 31 full texts were reviewed, and 3 studies were included. Results The search yielded 2,478 records, with 813 duplicates.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

1 Besides harnessing technology, doctors and families have two other tools they can use much earlier in their journeys to help them diagnose a rare disease: Newborn screenings and genetic carrier screens. Which one of those 17 doctors ultimately was able to pull together the pieces of Alex’s health picture and suggest a diagnosis?

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More than the rule of 2s: All about Meckel Diverticulum

PEMBlog

Other complications include obstruction due to intussusception or volvulus, leading to bowel ischemia and shock. This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. The bleeding is usually painless.

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Versatility in the CEREC® World Today

CDOCS

& Fluo glaze was utilized, and the stains were shade 1 for gingival warmth, shade I 2 for translucency and shade Creme for the framing (Figure 5).</span></p> The articulation function can be found and turned on in the Administration screen as seen in Figure 11. </span></p> <p>[image:Figure_2.jpg]<br

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. One example that is presented involves the complicated relationship between the United States and Chinese immigrants and farmworkers in California.