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What percent of doctors are qualified to do surgeries in US?
I am looking for a rough estimation of how many doctors are qualified to do surgeries. Google searching with this prompt and variations of it, have found me no reliable sources. The only one I could ...
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What constitutes a de-identified patient data in US healthcare?
HIPPA mentions 18 attributes listed here as PHI. Sharing of this data requires certain considerations as outlined by HIPPA. Most importantly data should be de-identified before sharing. As per this ...
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What information is a US healthcare provider required to provide access to under the 21st Century Cures Act?
In the United States, in response to the 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health and Human Services has developed regulations that prohibit "information blocking".
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The number of new cases of COVID
I have noticed that the number of new Covid cases in the United States is running roughly 100,000 per day and increasing. What percentage of those new cases are people that are fully vaccinated?
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USA: What is the correct way to code and bill for diabetic foot exams in claims data?
I'm working with some USA medical claims data and was asked for a gaps in care report for members of the population with diabetes. The total population is around a million people, with tens of ...
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How does Pfizer vaccine affect covid test?
Medical question on possible outcomes of tests. Assuming patient does NOT have actual covid. Perfectly Healthy
A patient gets a Pfizer vaccine first dose today. Will the patient’s Covid nose swab ...
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What is the authoritative US document that delineates concrete standards for vaccine approval?
What is the authoritative US document that delineates concrete standards for vaccine approval? Presumably said document would be from the FDA. By concrete, this should include all measurable ...
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Is the decrease in vaccine uptake in the US for two weeks in a row in line with some models' expectation?
According to Reuters news of May 3, vaccinations have also fallen in the US for two weeks in a row.
Nationally, deaths from COVID-19 fell 3% to 4,819 in the week ended May 2, the fewest deaths in a ...
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How accurate is the individual number covid-19 variant cases in each state?
How accurate is the individual number of covid-19 variant cases in each state?
US COVID-19 Cases Caused by Variants
I am trying to estimate the risk of being exposed to the one B.1.351 variant where ...
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How long would societal restrictions be in place if a COVID-19 vaccine has upward of 90% effectiveness? [closed]
Background
Back in October, Dr. Fauci said that the United States will need societal restrictions potentially until the beginning of 2022 according to WebMD:
Coronavirus vaccines -- once approved and ...
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What is the definition and significance of administration of "Compassionate Use Drug"?
There seems to be some conflict about the use of "Compassionate Drug Authorizations".
Does the request and use of such a drug indicate that a patient is in extreme danger?
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Estimated deaths if Covid control is based on herd immunity
Rachael Maddow suggested on her 9/16/20 show that reliance on herd immunity (naturally acquired immunity) to control the continued spread of COVID-19 could result in the death of 2 to 6 million ...
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COVID19 Vaccine Clinical Trials
I am interested in learning about the details of the Phase 3 clinical trial designs for the Moderna, Pfizer/Biotech, and AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines.
I expect that the trial designs would be published ...
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What is the principal goal in pooled COVID-19 testing?
Pooled testing for COVID-19 is being considered as a method to ramp up testing Stat News. Apparently this is being considered by the White House coronavirus team.
It's not clear to me what the goal of ...
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In Washington state must a doctor report situations that happened in the past? [closed]
Are Washington state's mandated reporting requirements triggered if a doctor discovers that their adult patient had been abused in the past? What if there are no longer any 'protected populations' at ...
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What would it be like to participate in a (coronavirus) challenge trial, in the US?
I am strongly considering volunteering for any COVID human challenge trial that becomes available near me (midwestern United States). I am willing to undergo long-term isolation. However, I am not ...
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Is there a graph over time of Covid-19 test positivity rate in the US?
Back in mid-April some commentary/news was that the US was not doing enough testing as evidenced by the test positivity rate:
America’s 20 percent positivity rate is disquieting. The U.S. did almost ...
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Accuracy of COVID-19 Diagnostic Testing, particularly false-negatives [closed]
I was surprised to hear Sanjay Gupta (CNN) say this morning (4/28/20) that there is significant disparity in the accuracy of the COVID-19 Diagnostic testing. He specifically mentioned that the ...
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Research paper published SARS-CoV-2 persistence and durability
I know that there have been other papers published, but I was specifically looking for the one referenced by Bill Bryan, an undersecretary at the Homeland Security Department, in the press briefing ...
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COVID-19 Contact tracing- Is there any clarity on the duration of "contact"
I was somewhat surprised to hear that contract tracers are instructed to disregard contacts between an known infected person (positive tested) person and their contacts if the duration of a contact is ...
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What is the delay in ILINet case reporting?
In the "Opening Up America Again" White House presentation they showed this graph
How up-to-date is that precipitous drop though we can see there?
I found the relevant CDC page (there's a similar ...
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Why does the CDC say there are an order of magnitude more COVID-19 deaths than COVID-19+Pneumonia?
The CDC has a webpage that lists "Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and pneumonia reported to NCHS by week ending date, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 4/4/2020.*" ...
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What is the expected false positives/negatives for COVID-19 tests?
As of March 13, 45/301 people have tested positive/negative for COVID-19
in Florida. What is the expected false positives/negatives here?
UPDATE (March 14): 71/478 from what I consider the best ...
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Can a medical doctor write a prescription which has not gone through a formal diagnosis to identify as needed?
This question largely arises from a scene in the TV Show Frasier, but it got me wondering, can a Doctor write a prescription for an individual that he knows they need, but has not gone through the ...
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Is it safe to eat raw flour in Europe?
A few years back the FDA said that you shouldn't eat raw flour (for example in color dough). Is that also true in the EU which has (AFAIK) better food standards?
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Can a medical student get an expedited certification as a paramedic?
Medical students, as future doctors, are in a rather unique position to support themselves in a part-time job in the medical field that provides a decent amount of on-call study time while also ...
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What abbreviations for pill types are there, and what do they mean?
Looking through my prescription history, the first time I was prescribed a particular drug the label said "20 Mg Tab Auro". The second and third times it said "20 Mg Tab Nort". What's the difference?
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Why did the FDA approve Biafine only in 2006?
Biafine is a topical non-steroidal medication, which has been used use in France for over 25 years. Why did the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approve Biafine for prescription only in 2006?
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Has the calorie content of soda (in US) increased over the years?
I recall reading, perhaps 25 years ago, one of those counter-intuitive factoids noting that milk had more calories than soda, ounce for ounce (but of course that this was offset by nutritional ...
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Why has the number of medication errors increased by 463% between 2010 and 2016 in the US?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/10/skin-melts-off-medication-error/315930001/ (mirror) says:
According to the Food and Drug Administration, medication errors jumped from 16,...
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