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. Nguyen, also the chief medical officer for care navigation with the Federation, described the innovation priorities at Kaiser Permanente.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. 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.

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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. Additional lab testing can be completed to account for the broader differential diagnoses. A value of > or = 50 ng/mL is considered abnormal.

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