Articles Tagged With: screening
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ED Visits for Alcohol and Substance Use Disorders Surging Nationally
Presentations often are bundled with a host of comorbid conditions and chronic or acute traumatic events. Providers should suspect and expect an underlying potentially serious coexisting medical complication in each patient encountered until proven otherwise.
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AAP Recommends Routine HIV Screening, Prevention for All Teens, At-Risk Youth
The organization advises pediatricians to create safe spaces that allow frank discussions of sensitive topics.
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Screening and Diagnosis of Chagas Disease in the United States
Chagas disease is an important public health problem in the United States. An expert panel has made a series of specific recommendations for screening for and diagnosis of Chagas disease in at-risk groups.
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Temperature and Symptom Check Rarely Prevents Presenteeism
During the COVID-19 pandemic, a common ritual at hospital entry for healthcare workers is undergoing a temperature and/or symptoms check upon arriving for their shift. The problem is it rarely works.
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Do Women 64 to 66 Years of Age Qualify to Discontinue Cervical Screening?
These studies evaluated adherence to national guidelines for exiting from cervical cancer screening at 65 years of age and managing abnormal results on screening with human papillomavirus (HPV) and Pap co-testing and found that the majority of women 64 to 66 years of age do not qualify to discontinue screening, and the majority of women with discordant Pap and HPV test results are managed incorrectly.
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Mammograms as a Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention Tool
In a study of women undergoing routine mammographic screening for breast cancer, mammographic features, such as microcalcifications and breast density, were associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease.
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Screen Older Heart Failure Patients for Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis
A screening study of heart failure patients ≥ age 60 years, left ventricular ejection fraction ≥ 40%, and left ventricle wall thickness ≥ 12 mm revealed 6.3% prevalence of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, a highly treatable disease.
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Equipping Clinicians with Appropriate Training on Firearms-Related Injuries
Several healthcare organizations believe it is time for healthcare professionals to do what they can on the prevention front to identify patients at risk, leverage those encounters to promote safety, and address access to firearms when that is a concern. Admitting there are knowledge gaps when it comes to firearms-related counseling, there are new efforts to shore up medical education in this area.
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Data Reveal Pediatric EPs’ Biases, Both Implicit and Explicit
Recent findings suggest ED providers probably do not treat all patients equally. Researchers want to use these data to determine just how much hidden biases might affect care. Meanwhile, they suggest providers self-screen to improve awareness. -
Researchers Make the Case for STD Screening in Pediatric EDs
Considering the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in adolescents and young adults, should pediatric EDs screen for STDs when these patients present to the ED? From a cost-effectiveness standpoint, the answer is yes, according to a team of researchers who examined this issue recently.