General Internal Medicine

Internal Medicine

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What are the best practices for optimizing transitions from hospital to skilled nursing facilities for older adult patients, with specific regard to adapting hospital medication regimens to the skilled nursing facility setting?

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Do you routinely recommend transition to dual PO antibiotic coverage for strep species and MRSA, for patients with purulent cellulitis and in the absence of culture data?

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What factors influence your decision to start salt tablets, urea, or a vaptan first in the management of a patient diagnosed with SIADH?

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For patients with newly diagnosed VTE on IV heparin planned for transition to DOAC, would you start at the loading or maintenance DOAC dose?

If they have been on IV heparin for 3 days, for example, would you subtract those days from the recommended loading dose time?

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What is your approach to deprescribing gabapentinoids so as to prevent withdrawal effects?

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What treatment combination approach would you recommend for mucous membrane pemphigoid?

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How would you approach hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause in a patient with increased risk factors for VTE (hereditary thrombophilia without personal thrombosis, family history of thrombophilia or thrombosis, etc.)?

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Besides treadmill, what other exercises may be considered for post-exercise ABIs, and are their diagnostic parameters identical to standard post-exercise ABIs?

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Would you supplement iron for low iron studies in absence of anemia?

Primary care providers often check iron studies during workup for fatigue, even if anemia is not present.

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Papers discussed in this category

American journal of hematology, 2024 Jan 29

Expert consensus guidelines: Intravenous iron uses, formulations, administration, and management of reactions.

Blood advances, 2024 Jul 09

Decision theoretical foundations of clinical practice guidelines: an extension of the ASH thrombophilia guidelines.

Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28

American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.

BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2010 Sep 16

A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making.

The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2018 Aug 23

Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care.

Annals of internal medicine, 2025 Sep 30

Trends in Dispensed Gabapentin Prescriptions in the United States, 2010 to 2024.

British journal of clinical pharmacology, 2023 Jun 13

Deprescribing interventions for gabapentinoids in adults: A scoping review.

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 2013 Sep

Gabapentin withdrawal: case report in an older adult and review of the literature.

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