PodMed – Week of October 20, 2017
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This week’s topics include Medicare spending on frail elderly, resorbable stents, men with HPV, and procalcitonin to assess antibiotic need. Program notes: 0:41 Looking at procalcitonin to determine antibiotic use 1:42 Improve or worsen survival 2:40 Point of care testing 2:54 Stents that resorb 3:52 First approved in Europe in 2011 4:50 Post marketing surveillance […]
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