The update includes 19 recommendations in six key areas of asthma diagnosis, management and treatment. Several new features aim to help clinicians put the recommendations into practice, and the stepwise treatment tables have been refreshed.
Missed bill payments and lowered credit scores may be evident years before a dementia diagnosis, a new study shows. Earlier diagnosis could help protect patients’ financial well-being, investigators say.
Almost a third of older emergency department patients who were subsequently diagnosed with COVID had delirium at admission, investigators say. And many had no other COVID symptoms, such as cough or fever.
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Long-term care facilities soon may face longer waits for PCR test results as diagnostic laboratories reach or exceed testing capacity, lab reps say. The warning comes as U.S. COVID cases spike upward.
Among 13,000 facilities that provided their testing speed to the government, only 17% reported an average turnaround time of less than a day; and fully 29% waited three days or more on average for residents’ test results.
The agency clarifies that rapid antigen tests, “like all diagnostic tests,” are subject to false positive results, especially in low prevalence settings. It offers recommendations for administering the tests and interpreting results.
If the goal is to identify all asymptomatic nursing home staff, comprehensive repeat testing may be needed regardless of COVID positivity rates in the community, investigators told McKnight’s.
A new blood test that detects the presence of Alzheimer’s brain plaques on Thursday became the first to hit the commercial market on a wide scale.
A multi-state study in Genesis HealthCare facilities found that more than 40% of nursing home residents with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Facility-wide testing was more successful in detecting these lurking infections than unit-only surveys.
