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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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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Seeing Double

ALiEM

She initially presented to urgent care with a chief complaint of chest heaviness and concern that her blood pressure was too high, but was sent to the emergency department for further cardiac and neurological evaluation after her urgent care provider noticed abnormal eye movement. Br Ir Orthopt J. doi: 10.22599/bioj.280.

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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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Case 16 – Come out, come out, wherever you are

Urgent Care Ultrasounds

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. For a comparison of the ultrasound with the chest x-ray for both of these patients see LUNGus v's CXR References (1) Helland G, Gaspari R, Licciardo S, et al. 2016; 23(10):1170-1175.

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

PulmCCM

with Covid-19 randomized to 800 μg of inhaled budesonide twice daily had significantly fewer urgent care visits, and faster resolution of symptoms. In the STOIC trial (a phase 2, open-label, randomized trial), 146 outpatients in the U.K.

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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.