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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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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2).

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

Permanente Medicine

And then, so from that point on, I began to look at technology systems, processes for all settings, inpatient, outpatient care at home, a hospital at home. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Outside of work.

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District Court Interprets EKRA

FDA Law Blog

Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.” S&G Labs Haw., 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 220(e)(2).

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What can we learn from simulations? Amber Barnato

GeriPal

And I think the crisis that we’re in right now in healthcare delivery, the idea of laying down my badge, I think that’s maybe a metaphor for being a sheriff, but what about being a healthcare provider? It also feels like, I also grew up in med school in a three hospital system. So I just can’t keep going.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

But I think if I were under normal constraints of the healthcare system, I wouldn’t have that time. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. Well, I do it personally. Mazie: Yes. Mazie: Oh, for sure.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting?