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MACRA Monday: Documenting current medications
Staying on top of a patient’s medication list could help you avoid a 4% MIPS penalty.
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Incidental lung nodules are frequently not mentioned in hospital discharge summary
How often are incidentally found pulmonary nodules and instructions for follow-up included in the discharge summary?
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Results support using MTD of HU in kids with SCA
Dosing of hydroxyurea (HU) in young patients with sickle cell anemia (SCA) should target a fetal hemoglobin (HbF) level above 20%, according to...
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Tick, Tick, Boom
When autumn colors burn bright, we head to the mountains for our nature "fix," foliage pics, and ... encounters with ticks. Their bites can erupt...
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VIDEO: ERAS for minimally invasive surgery
Stacy A. Brethauer, MD, FACS, discusses the role of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) in minimally invasive surgical procedures.
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Blindness linked to HCQ use rare in rheumatic patients
SAN DIEGO – Comorbidities seem to contribute more to blindness.
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TAP an alternative to epidural for colorectal surgery
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – Patients receiving a transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block had shorter hospital stays than those receiving epidurals in a...
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Acute cholecystitis guidelines need work
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. – A review of cases at a single institution showed that the Tokyo Guidelines had poor sensitivity for detection of acute...
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Unblinded data show extent of verubecestat’s failure in mild-moderate Alzheimer’s
BOSTON – No benefit was seen in any endpoint, in any subgroup.
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VIDEO: Evidence mounts for pulmonary embolism benefit from catheter thrombolysis
TORONTO – The treatment may be best suited to intermediate-risk PE patients.