Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural.

Chronic Disease Management 130

Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Illness Management 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes. And it can cause harm because if you’re springing this test on someone, it actually could create a lot of anxiety. So I get all the referrals from my great colleagues in primary care. I just had lab tests done.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Febrile seizures are due to the degree of fever, not the rate of temperature rise, even though we see them as the temperature is increasing rapidly in the early parts of the illness. The majority of children have febrile seizures on the first day of illness. In some cases, it’s actually their first manifestation of illness.

Illness 59

Illness Vaccination Family Families 59