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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Administrative electronic health record (EHR) datasets offer a low-cost opportunity to investigate influences on knee osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and outcomes such as total knee arthroplasty (TKA). The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. years (SD 8.8), 78.2%

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Typically, it includes a full review of your medical history, a physical examination, and a conversation about lifestyle, medications, and future health goals. For a new patient visit , both ICD-10 (diagnosis) and CPT (procedure) codes are assigned. What’s the Difference Between Establishing Care and a Physical? Absolutely.

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Research suggests most CXRs are performed because ED clinicians (and many parents) are concerned for the possibility of missing pneumonia or another diagnosis requiring specific management. A common phenomenon in EDs around the country, this scenario is only made worse by typical spikes in patient volumes during respiratory viral seasons.

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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.” Or somebody who has other physical cognitive problems at any age. Those things do just accumulate with age.

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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. Or there’s physical symptom needs. Kate: A diagnosis.

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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. You were focused on physical and psychological distress and symptoms. I have oncology on the brain.

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