Commonly missed diagnoses include thyroid disease, depression, meningitis, melanoma and appendicitis. Guidelines for diagnosing these and other conditions are elaborated. Doctors should be over-inquis...
While non-treponemal tests are inexpensive and easy to use, they are prone tofalse-positiveresults (meaning that they may say you have syphilis even if you don't). Because of this, a positive result needs to be confirmed with a second, costlier test.5 Treponemal Tests If a non-treponemal...
Although it's tempting to think otherwise, planning for the transition to the ICD-10-CM code sets for outpatient diagnostic coding still should be at or near the top of family physicians' "to do" lists. That's the opening message participating physicians will hear during a free AAFP webinar...
They told us that although there are official words for diagnoses in Mandarin, the terms often feel so clinical that many people don’t recognize them. Some emotional concepts, like being vulnerable, don’t have direct translations. Others carry harsher connotations in Mandarin. For example, while...
Comorbidities:A wide range of comorbidities, such asdiabetes, is associated with higher death rates. This means a patient has multiple diagnoses, with the primary diagnosis being treated, which typically means more challenging care. We used an inventory known as the Elixhauser comorbidities in r...
If you suspect that you or your child are experiencing symptoms of ADHD, you may be wondering: Who diagnoses ADHD? And will I need medication to manage my or my child’s symptoms? While medication may be a part of an ADHD treatment plan for some children and adults, it is possible for...
What breast cancer stages lead to good life insurance outcomes? Breast cancer survivors who have been in remission for a number of years and have no other health issues generally have an easier time securing affordable life insurance. Slow-moving diagnoses like Stage 0 breast cancer can also resu...
A known limitation of many diagnosis algorithms is that the number of diagnoses they return can be very large. This is both time consuming and not very helpful from the perspective of a human operator: presenting hundreds of diagnoses to a human operator (charged with repairing the system) is...
They told us that many diagnoses have formal terms in Vietnamese but will often require additional explanation for people to understand. Some concepts, like “self-care,” have more interpreted definitions rather than direct translations. Terms also vary among dialects spoken across Vietnam and othe...
"While certainly mental health diagnoses deserve flexibility on attendance, for many students, mild stress is actually easier to deal with by consistently going to school. So mental health days are not always as beneficial as we treat them." Encourage School Involvement School isn't just about ...