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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Illness Script

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Demonstrate the utility of an illness script in clinical reasoning 4.- An illness script is a clinical reasoning tool used by clinicians to collect and retrieve clinically relevant information about a particular condition. This will solidify your knowledge of the condition and increase the utility of your Illness script.

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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. Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. .”

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Bathrooms “R” Us

Physician's Practice

Examples from my practice If we tell a patient that we will return a call to them in two days with a report of a lab test and the results are not available, it is essential to inform the patient of the situation and provide them with an alternative date for when someone will call with the results.