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Socioeconomic status key factor in CPAP adherence in older adults
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- Jeff Craven
Clinicians may need to borrow ideas from other therapeutic fields to help improve patient adherence.
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Early recognition of oncologic emergencies deemed ‘crucial’
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- Jeff Craven
“Early recognition of these emergencies is crucial, and there are simple initial interventions that can make a big difference in patient outcomes...
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Simplifying the antibiotic selection process
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- Jeff Craven
“I won’t necessarily expect attendees to use everything I talk about, but if you have a patient on service that infectious disease started...
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Get updated: Latest ATS/ISDA guidelines for pneumonia
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- Jeff Craven
This session will cover the new ATS/IDSA guidelines for CAP, which will include what initial testing to order, which empiric antibiotics to use,...
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Sepsis: Vitamin C, thiamine, glucocorticoids remain controversial
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- Jeff Craven
Hospitalists are traditionally well versed in current sepsis guidelines, but time to treatment is paramount, and it can be difficult to stay up to...
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Colonoscopy over age 75 should be ‘carefully considered’
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- Jeff Craven
Older age was an independent risk factor for postcolonoscopy complications, with individuals older than 75 years having twofold greater odds of...
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Cushing’s and COVID-19: Nontraditional symptoms keys to assessment, treatments
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- Jeff Craven
Features of Cushing’s syndrome may confound diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19, and also could make patients more susceptible to the pandemic.
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WHO clarifies comments on asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2
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- Jeff Craven
Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said she wasn’t stating a WHO policy when she characterized asymptomatic transmission as rare.
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WHO: Asymptomatic COVID-19 spread deemed ‘rare’
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- Jeff Craven
- Katie Lennon
“It is important to breakdown truly asymptomatic vs pre-symptomatic vs mildly symptomatic.”
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Biologics may carry melanoma risk for patients with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases
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- Jeff Craven
“We advocate for more large, well-designed studies of this issue to be performed to help improve certainty,” the researchers said.
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Atopic dermatitis in adults, children linked to neuropsychiatric disorders
- Author:
- Jeff Craven
“Additional work is needed to really understand the mechanisms that drive these associations,” Dr. Joy Wan said.
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MCC response varies based on immunosuppression type, especially CLL
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- Jeff Craven
About 10% of patients with Merkel cell carcinoma are immunosuppressed at diagnosis and tend to have a more...
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Erythema and sclerosis predict chronic GVHD clinical response, survival
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- Jeff Craven
"Our findings highlight the importance of thorough skin exams in chronic GVHD patients."
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‘Loss-frame’ approach makes psoriasis patients more agreeable to treatment
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- Jeff Craven
Explaining possible outcomes without treatment was more effective in getting patients to agree to treatment than was messaging that focused on the...
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California wildfires caused uptick in clinic visits for atopic dermatitis, itch
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- Jeff Craven
During the deadliest wildfire in California’s history in 2018, dermatology clinics 175 miles away at the University of California, San Francisco,...