General Primary Care

Questions discussed in this category

How do you decide whether average-risk patients should undergo annual or biannual breast cancer screening?

1 Answer available

How do you determine whether to limit volume removal during therapeutic paracentesis in a patient without acute or chronic kidney disease?

1 Answer available

Do you recommend starting with oral or intramuscular B12 supplementation in patients with newly diagnosed deficiency?

1 Answer available

How do you recommend counseling patients on the prognosis of advanced cancer as a generalist who is not highly specialized in cancer literature or cancer-directed therapies?

1 Answer available

How do you decide whether to use lung POCUS versus CT as the next step when a chest X-ray is equivocal for pneumonia?

3 Answers available

How do you counsel patients who ask if they should take a daily multivitamin?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to secondary prophylaxis for C difficile infection during concomitant antibiotic use in a patient with a history of C difficile infection?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to duration of fidaxomicin in a patient receiving treatment for first C difficile infection while also receiving concurrent antibiotics for an infection?

Do you extend the course of fidaxomicin past initial 10 days to at least 3-7 days after completion of antibiotics?

1 Answer available

How do you approach the use of metformin in the management of prediabetes for patients who are neither obese nor have a family history of diabetes?

2 Answers available

Papers discussed in this category

Microbes and infection, 2024 May 06

Secondary prophylaxis for Clostridioides difficile infection for patients on non-C. difficile antibiotics: a retrospective cohort study.

Journal of palliative medicine, 2012-02

Systematic review of cancer presentations with a median survival of six months or less.

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2022 Mar 23

Post-Acute Care Outcomes and Functional Status Changes of Adults with New Cancer Discharged to Skilled Nursing Facilities.

Palliative medicine, 2022 Jul

The utility of the surprise question: A useful tool for identifying patients nearing the last phase of life? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

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