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Casey Finnerty

Will polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based diagnostics improve outcome in septic patien... - 0 views

  • if the primary aim of PCR diagnostics is to decrease inappropriate empirical treatment and improve patient outcome, detection should focus on those pathogens or resistance determinants that are not covered by guideline-recommended treatment regimens and that have been identified as the major cause of inappropriate treatment according to current studies
Nate Scheibe

Diagnostic tests for agents of community-acq... [Clin Infect Dis. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI - 0 views

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Casey Finnerty

What Happens When Parents Are Rude in the Hospital - The New York Times - 0 views

  • “All the collaborative mechanisms and things that make a team a team, rather than four individuals working separately, were damaged by the exposure to rudeness.”
  • After such a comment, the teams performed significantly worse in the simulated patient emergencies. Their diagnostic skills deteriorated, and so did their technical procedural abilities, from ventilating and resuscitating the artificial babies properly to ordering and giving the right medications. Both doctors and nurses tended to perform worse individually. They also worked less effectively as teams, as far as communicating and helping one another take care of the sick “patient.”
Casey Finnerty

Flawed herpes testing leads to false positives, and needless suffering - 0 views

  • Up to 1 in 2 positive tests could be false, according to the USPSTF’s most recent guidelines.
Casey Finnerty

CDC Threat Report: 'We Will Soon Be in a Post-Antibiotic Era' - Wired Science - 0 views

  • And it calls for action in four areas: gathering better data; preventing infections, through vaccination, better protective behavior in hospitals, and better food handling; improving the way in which antibiotics are used, by not using them inappropriately in health care or agriculture; and developing not just new categories of antibiotics but better diagnostic tests so that resistant organisms can be identified and dealt with sooner, before they spread.
  • “My biggest frustration is the pace of change,” he told me. “Hospitals are making progress, but it’s single digits in terms of the number of hospitals that are being very proactive.
Casey Finnerty

In a First, Test of DNA Finds Root of Illness - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • But in the first procedure of its kind, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, managed to pinpoint the cause of Joshua’s problem — within 48 hours. He had been infected with an obscure species of bacteria. Once identified, it was eradicated within days.
Casey Finnerty

CDC - Seasonal Influenza (Flu) - Guidance for Clinicians on the Use of Rapid Influenza ... - 0 views

  • Sensitivities of RIDTs are generally 40-70%, but a range of 10-80% has been reported compared to viral culture or RT-PCR. Specificities of RIDTs are approximately 90-95% (range 85-100%). Thus false negative results occur more commonly than false positive results.
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