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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Demonstrate the utility of an illness script in clinical reasoning 4.- our own illness scripts) as we reason to a working diagnosis or a final diagnosis. This will solidify your knowledge of the condition and increase the utility of your Illness script. lab tests, imaging, and/or pathology). Objectives: 1.-

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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? There is abundant evidence showing that routine lab tests in such patients have a very low yield and are not indicated, in adults as well as in children. Decades ago, psychiatric complaints in the pediatric ED were infrequent.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.