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SGEM#263: Please Stop, Prescribing – Antibiotics for Viral Acute Respiratory Infections

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings. A Multifaceted Intervention Improves Prescribing for Acute Respiratory Infection for Adults and Children in Emergency Department and Urgent Care Settings.

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SGEM#402: Call Me – On the Telemental Health Line

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

The effect of telemental versus in-person mental health consults in the emergency department on 30-day utilization and processes of care. He is also the CME editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. The effect of telemental versus in-person mental health consults in the emergency department on 30-day utilization and processes of care.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 9/28/23 (Issue #15)

PulmCCM

Systemic corticosteroids (such as intravenous dexamethasone) improve outcomes in severe pneumonia due to SARS-CoV-2 infection. It makes sense that inhaled steroids might improve outcomes from less severe infections. Do inhaled steroids improve Covid pneumonia? About two thirds of patients in each arm were vaccinated.

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Friday Reflection #26: General Internal Medicine in the Time of COVID

Sensible Medicine

As our hospital filled up, I was left doing video visits with my patients (visits that I found unrewarding), educational sessions about COVID for doctors from other specialties, and urgent care shifts to see the patients who needed to be seen in person. I also began to feel useful as a physician and an academic.