Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT improves diagnosis and guided management of suspected inflammatory arthritis of the hand. The CE-DECT findings matched the final diagnosis in 119 patients (87.5%). Diagnosis changed after CE-DECT in 67 patients (49.2%). and its impact on patient management at 8.4 (SD

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Some providers felt that even with medication assistance programs and utilizing less expensive medications, medications and testing supplies remain a financial burden to their diabetic patients.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Biomarkers for drug-induced immune reactions aid clinicians in diagnosing, risk-stratifying, and managing diseases. But the varied mechanisms and clinical presentations of drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) can make diagnosis and treatment challenging, and most biomarkers still require validation.

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AMMD

JUNE 5, 2025

They keep your organs powered up and manage your overall metabolism. While conventional thyroid medications such as levothyroxine can help manage symptoms, they often fail to address the underlying cause of hypothyroidism and associated imbalances. It sends energy to every cell in your body through the hormones it produces.

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AMMD

JUNE 17, 2025

Whether you have received a formal diagnosis or you simply feel exhausted, foggy, or have noticed weight gain, your thyroid gland may be the root cause. Stress management is one of several natural remedies for hypothyroidism that can help restore balance. Low thyroid hormone is more common than many realize.

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Medical Xpress

DECEMBER 29, 2022

A clinical research team from the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has used amniotic fluid cells obtained during 16-24 weeks of pregnancy as a novel sample type for RNA-sequencing in prenatal diagnosis to help more families with tailored clinical management. The findings have been published in the journal, npj Genomic Medicine.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

received a new diagnosis of ADRD, and 5.1% received a new diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment within 90 days after the DCA. Among the 236 patients who were categorized as impaired, 2.1% CONCLUSIONS One-half of all patients scored impaired or borderline for cognitive impairment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Early identification and intervention in behavioral aspects of chronic diseases leads to improved function with decreased healthcare utilization, yet we know little about referral patterns for behavioral support of chronic disease. 88% (n= 11,483) of BH referrals were created for the management of a mental health condition.

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

Which one of those 17 doctors ultimately was able to pull together the pieces of Alex’s health picture and suggest a diagnosis? The NORD report notes: “Genetic testing…is being increasingly utilized to help diagnose rare diseases, the majority of which are genetic in origin. Knowing None of them. It was the AI program ChatGPT.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. Recognizing the characteristic features and understanding the differential diagnosis is crucial in managing patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

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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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

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. Evaluation of the utility of radiography in acute bronchiolitis. But it’s just a CXR right? Does this child have pneumonia? PMID: 28763554.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The diagnosis of a virus illness is generally made clinically with a history and clinical exam and does not require confirmatory testing. Identifying the specific type of virus that are causing a child’s symptoms, like rhinovirus vs parainfluenza, is often unnecessary, especially in otherwise healthy children who are managed at home.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. And I quickly found myself in a role of access lead for Orange County and where I managed over 300 doctors.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

Couple this with the in-office technologies of CEREC&reg; Primescan and CBCT allowed us to gain control of the technical processes necessary to manage and produce the surgical and restorative phases of treatment at one location.</span></p>

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith. It’s really important. Alex: Yeah.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

The following is a summary of “PLASMIC score to aid diagnosis of aHUS: an analysis of C5 inhibitor clinical trials and the PINC AI™ healthcare database,” published in the May 2025 issue of BMC Nephrology by Uriol-Rivera et al.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 2, 2025

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Management of chronic pain in the elderly: focus on transdermal buprenorphine. And how am I going to manage their pain? And then part of our role as folks in palliative care who as Katie mentioned, really try to help folks manage distress around serious illness. Two great videos on buprenorphine initiation. Transcript.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. Pediatrics.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Yet another rejection was a proposal requiring a diagnosis on Medicaid prescriptions as a condition for claims payment. Three-Year Limit on Disputes: The final rule establishes a three-year limit for manufacturers to dispute, audit, or request a hearing on state utilization data.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia. Nurse case management, social worker case management, medications, medical equipment, a home health aid, all that stuff goes away.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

We invited Dani Chammas , a palliative care physician and psychiatrist at UCSF (and a frequent guest to the GeriPal podcast), as well as Brent Kious , a psychiatrist at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute, focusing on the management of severe persistent mental illnesses. So it’s a lot of palliation. I gotta get some sleep.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) COVID-19 diagnosis of a relative Yes 98 (46.4) Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures. 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7) Age Groups Below 40 years of age 69 (42.6) 162 (58.7) p=0.001 40 years and over 70 (61.4)

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Healthcare, just the way healthcare is structured, that’s not something that’s feasible unless there’s a specific symptom management need that allows for more care, but just to provide simple care doesn’t exist. Well, I’d agree, John, for palliative care ideally starts around the time of diagnosis.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. As a managed care state also, our care managers in managed care for Medicaid could be 300 miles away. Eric: And Susan? Having that visual is really important.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, basically, with a stepped care model, the goal is to tailor care delivery to the patient’s needs while at the same time utilizing less clinician resources. Within eight weeks of diagnosis of advanced disease. It’s not just about physical symptom management. Can someone describe for me what a stepped model is?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right? They’re looking at difficult outcomes, utilization outcomes, right? Juliet: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I didn’t know how to manage it. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place.

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