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Breaking ICD Codes: Identifying Ambiguous Respiratory Infection Codes via Regional Diagnosis Heterogeneity [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We aimed to analyze regional variations in the assignment of International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) codes to acute respiratory infections, seeking to identify notable anomalies that suggest diverse diagnoses of the same condition. Data were aggregated into age brackets.

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Demystifying the Role of HHS and ASPE in Guiding Federal Aging Policy and Priorities with Dr. Tisamarie Sherry

GeriPal

For the policy buffs and policy newbies out there, we hope this podcast is an essential primer to government in action. How we came about to select these articles or to have interest in this topic is really older adults are unique population that are at risk for both over diagnosis of infections as well as under diagnosis of infections.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Just today (June 17th) as we record this podcast: Ezra Klein released a wonderful interview with Sarah McBride , the first openly transgender member of congress A judge ruled that cuts to NIH grants focused on minority groups, including transgender people, were illegal and ordered the government to restore funding.

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What is going on with MAID in Canada? Bill Gardner, Leonie Herx, & Sonu Gaind

GeriPal

And so in that context, knowing that there was going to be some evolution of policy in this area, that’s how I got involved consulting with members, trying to understand the situation better, that type of thing. Alex: Self-administer and psychiatric illness is not considered a qualifying diagnosis. Eric: Yeah. Eric: Yeah.

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The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Medicine: Guest Bob Wachter

GeriPal

The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts. You and I would listen to a suggested list of diagnoses and say, “That’s a reasonable idea. They had no idea. I’m connecting.

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What is Death? Winston Chiong and Sean Aas

GeriPal

I love these topics, too, because even how do we define what is a diagnosis? Like, if we think about the fact that hospitals around the country, around the world, you know, people are, you know, coming in, they’re being diagnosed as dead on the basis of neurologic criteria, and that we. It’s coming up very much right now.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

At their first meeting with the leadership of AHRQ last month, officials from Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency said that they didn’t know what the agency did — and that its budget would be cut by 80% to 90%, according to two people with knowledge of the meeting who were granted anonymity because of fears of retribution.