DigDugDude

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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   I'm a registered nurse, and while not an expert in microbio, I have more training in it than the average bear. It doesn't take much for bacteria or fungi to start growing on previously filtered water once it's open to air. Ju
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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   The majority of cost comes from associated procedures and admin/staff costs (not including that of physicians and nurses).
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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   I appreciate your frustration as a patient. Myself, I am both a patient and a clinician. I do think you're missing some things about the way things work "behind the curtain", and I was hoping to offer some insight. I'm n
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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   As I said above, there is widespread use of clinical decision support systems already. They do things like flag patients that the program determines might have sepsis in the hospital. The issue is, even these relatively simple programs gene
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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   This. They act well as warning systems in case you may have missed something, but they don't solve the issue very well of who to work up in the first place or how to do it.
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   by DigDugDude 4y ago

   Actually, there is widespread use of what are called clinical decision support systems (CDSS). But, one of the primary problems with these systems is they generate a large number of false positives and negatives depending on the context. Yo