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Mashup Score: 9Misuses of “Quality of Life” Judgments in End-of-Life Care - 3 hour(s) ago
Physicians’ misperceptions about their disabled patients’ quality of life (QoL) can influence their decision to offer certain medical treatments. There are at least three domains in which misconceptions about a disabled QoL might result in unequal care for disabled patients and could even lead to a patient’s untimely death: (1) futility declarations, (2) recommendations for comfort care, (3) and the distribution of scarce resources. This article argues that medical futility decisions should not be based on a physician’s QoL judgments, that physicians should not steer disabled patients into comfort care when they have treatable illnesses, and that disability alone should never be a reason to deprioritize a patient for scarce medical resources.
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Mashup Score: 5
Some reviews state that a strong and early response to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) helps differentiate axial spondyloarthritis
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Mashup Score: 59
Lithium metal, due to its advantages of high theoretical capacity, low density and low electrochemical reaction potential, is used as a negative elect…
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Mashup Score: 9Combination T4/T3 Treatment for Hypothyroidism? - 6 day(s) ago
Some patients with hypothyroidism report feeling better when they take both levothyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) than when they take T4 alone,
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Mashup Score: 1The Devil is in the Detail ! - 9 day(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 4What Do Oncology Patients Think of Electronic Monitoring? - 10 day(s) ago
A survey indicates that patients are open to electronic monitoring systems, but the latter require dedicated personnel to implement.
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Mashup Score: 31Paradigm Shift in the Management of Advanced Urothelial Cancer - 11 day(s) ago
Platinum-based chemotherapy has long been the standard of care for metastatic urothelial cancer, with cisplatin eligibility determined based on
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Mashup Score: 0Generic Spondyloarthritis Screening Tool Needed Across Comorbid Diseases to Speed Referral, Diagnosis - 13 day(s) ago
A comparison of screening tools for SpA in conditions that commonly co-occur with the disease revealed few screening tool options for patients with uveitis or IBD, compared with psoriasis.
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Mashup Score: 9360. Obesity: Lifestyle & Pharmacologic Management of Obesity with Dr. Ambarish Pandey - 14 day(s) ago
Listen to this episode from Cardionerds: A Cardiology Podcast on Spotify. CardioNerds Dr. Rick Ferraro (CardioNerds Academy House Faculty and Cardiology Fellow at JHH), Dr. Gurleen Kaur (Director of the CardioNerds Internship and Internal Medicine resident at BWH), and Dr. Alli Bigeh (Cardiology Fellow at the Ohio State) as they discuss the growing obesity epidemic and how it relates to cardiovascular disease with Dr. Ambarish Pandey (Cardiologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center). Show notes were drafted by Dr. Alli Bigeh. CardioNerds Academy Intern and student Dr. Shivani Reddy performed audio editing. Obesity is an important modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, and it is on the rise! Here, we discuss how to identify patients with obesity and develop an approach to address current lifestyle recommendations. We also discuss the spectrum of pharmacologic treatment options available, management strategies, and some therapy options that are on the horizon. This episode was
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Mashup Score: 21Spontaneous Normalization of Subclinical Hypothyroidism - 15 day(s) ago
Subclinical hypothyroidism — above-normal level of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) but normal free thyroxine (T4) — becomes more common with age. To
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This is such an important piece from @accpchest! How healthcare workers must avoid making improper assumptions about acceptable QoL when having serious illness conversations. #MedTwitter https://t.co/LAtYrpfiL2 https://t.co/1dGUvbkSKC