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STAT+: Epic overhauls popular sepsis algorithm criticized for faulty alarms

STAT

Corporate documents obtained by STAT show that Epic is now recommending that its model be trained on a hospital’s own data before clinical use, a major shift aimed at ensuring its predictions are relevant to the actual patient population a hospital treats.

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Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document!

Pharmacy Joe

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about FDA guidance on AI, meds releasing ‘forever chemicals,’ and more

STAT

The brief, 20-page document, instead, focuses on AI models used to produce data that supports regulatory decision-making about the safety, effectiveness, or quality of drugs. The wastewater continued to contain high concentrations of organofluorines and other compounds that meet the definition of PFAS even after treatment.

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Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document!

Pharmacy Joe

Episode 908: Finally, All the VTE Recommendations In One Document! This meant that any unchanged guidance statements from the 2012 9th edition were still considered to be part of the guidelines, but were not reprinted in the 2016 document. appeared first on Pharmacy Joe.

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How I Educate Series: Jacob Avila, MD

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

Does this come at the expense of your documentation? The amount that I teach definitely depends on patient volume. What is your method for reviewing learners’ notes and how do you provide feedback on documentation? I usually text them if it’s after shift, or talk to them on shift about their documentation.

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The Febrile Infant: Incorporating the 2021 American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

Well-appearing febrile infants The AAP acknowledges that clinician experience is likely the best determinate of what is “well-appearing”, further admitting that there is no measure or definition of either “experience” or “well-appearing” Febrile Rectal temperatures of 38.0C What should be done if the viral panel is positive ?

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FDA Releases Final Guidance on Use of Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — As an end of the year gift, FDA finalized its guidance document, Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations , in late December. The final guidance provides additional discussion with respect to DHTs that meet the definition of a device.