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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Pre and Posttest Probability – Jack Penner

The Clinical Problem Solvers

For our first post, we are going to talk about two concepts that help us decide whether we treat, test for, or toss specific diagnoses (i.e., As you walk down to the ER, you’re already creating a list of possible diagnoses in your mind. moving them much lower on our differential): pre and posttest probabilities. Let’s dive in!

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. An extended release (“ER”) opioid in legitimate pain management generally accompanies an IR opioid, with patients taking the ER opioid on a set schedule and the IR opioid as needed.

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

And I think that when we’re faced with a child who has one of these diagnoses, that’s where we need to weigh the risks and benefits. We know that nine out of ten children that go to the ER do not go to children’s hospital ERs. Nobody wants to miss an appendicitis. Nobody wants to miss a head bleed, right?

Family 101
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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. Urgent care clinics provide quick diagnoses and treatments, including antibiotics if needed. The ER is open 24/7 and has the equipment and staff to handle life-threatening conditions at any time.

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Finding the Right Clinic: A Guide to Quality Care

Plum Health

No more googling "ER near me" in a panic; you can get quick and competent care at an urgent care center. Whether it's a urinary tract infection or a severe ear infection, urgent care clinics can quickly diagnose and treat infections. Patients can receive consultations, diagnosis, and treatment without needing an overnight stay.

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Anxiety in Late Life and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Alex Gamble and Brianna Williamson

GeriPal

If you look in the diagnostical statistical manual, right, the sort of handbook for diagnoses, most of the diagnostic criteria are in some important ways kind of arbitrary, right? If they’ve said they had a traumatic experience receiving a diagnosis. And so in terms of, am I looking to put a DSM diagnosis to someone?

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatr Rev.