Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

The prevalent cohort required a diagnosis of COPD any time during the observation period, and the inception cohort required a diagnosis of COPD made after entry into the database. Hazard ratios were significantly increased in the prevalent and inception cohorts for recurrent pneumonia (HR = 2.88; 95% CI, 2.62-3.16; 2.06; P < 001).

Individual 130

Individual Diagnosis Diabetes Electronics 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. But treatment first, securing the diagnosis is secondary and often delayed.

Management 59

Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

AMMD

MARCH 13, 2025

Brain fog is not a medical condition or a diagnosis. These include our physical environment, jobs, relationships, traffic, and unexpected events. Sleeping well can also lower your risk for diabetes and heart disease. These are signs of brain fog! A little bit of stress is natural and can come from internal or external factors.

IT 130

IT Medical Patient-Centered Relationship 130

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Eric 12:05 Any pearls on the diagnosis of HFpEF. So I would agree, just in terms of not trying to dismiss a lot of these patients in terms of deconditioning and really trying to sometimes hone in on the diagnosis despite a Bnp level that is not necessarily very high. Nicole 12:14 No, HFpEF is cool, and it’s fine. What is GDMT?

Primary Care 114

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 114

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

There is a lot to digest with these draft clinical guidelines but the big change from the 2018 guideline is moving Alzheimers to a biological diagnosis (biomarker evidence only) not just for a research framework but now from a clinical one. That’s going to whole groups of people excluded from formal diagnosis. Eric: PET scans.

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

And so many older adults with diagnosis of osteoporosis have never received any therapy for it. These were clinical trials involving postmenopausal women with a diagnosis of osteoporosis, based on either an existing vertebral fracture or a bone mineral at the density T-score of less than negative 2.5, Eric: I like that one.

Clinic 68

Clinic IT Patients Medical 68

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So if you can think about certain decisions like continuing to screen for certain cancers like colon cancer or breast cancer, or how strict you should control diabetes or blood pressures. And really providing these estimates of how long a person has to live affects a lot of the decisions we have to make clinically. Alex, what other decisions?

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95