Comments on: Expectations Trumps Exam http://symtym.net/2006/12/expectations_trumps_exam/ meandering healthcare, law, technology... Sat, 13 Feb 2010 14:46:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: universalhealth http://symtym.net/2006/12/expectations_trumps_exam/comment-page-1/#comment-290 universalhealth Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:14:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=806#comment-290 Yes to all of the above reasons and to add to them: employers' expectations that workers come to work when ill (presenteeism), parents' inability to take time away from work to bring children in for office visits, delay in getting office/clinic appointments, decreased availability of school nurses to see children with acute symptoms, attempts for primary providers to see as many patients as can be crammed into the clinic/office schedule, little risk of acute harm for extant practice. Does anyone still use the self-assessment diagnostic tool to distinguish viral from bacterial caused URIs? Yes to all of the above reasons and to add to them: employers’ expectations that workers come to work when ill (presenteeism), parents’ inability to take time away from work to bring children in for office visits, delay in getting office/clinic appointments, decreased availability of school nurses to see children with acute symptoms, attempts for primary providers to see as many patients as can be crammed into the clinic/office schedule, little risk of acute harm for extant practice.

Does anyone still use the self-assessment diagnostic tool to distinguish viral from bacterial caused URIs?

]]> By: universalhealth http://symtym.net/2006/12/expectations_trumps_exam/comment-page-1/#comment-291 universalhealth Fri, 08 Dec 2006 05:14:00 +0000 http://symtym.com/?p=806#comment-291 Yes to all of the above reasons and to add to them: employers' expectations that workers come to work when ill (presenteeism), parents' inability to take time away from work to bring children in for office visits, delay in getting office/clinic appointments, decreased availability of school nurses to see children with acute symptoms, attempts for primary providers to see as many patients as can be crammed into the clinic/office schedule, little risk of acute harm for extant practice.<br><br>Does anyone still use the self-assessment diagnostic tool to distinguish viral from bacterial caused URIs? Yes to all of the above reasons and to add to them: employers' expectations that workers come to work when ill (presenteeism), parents' inability to take time away from work to bring children in for office visits, delay in getting office/clinic appointments, decreased availability of school nurses to see children with acute symptoms, attempts for primary providers to see as many patients as can be crammed into the clinic/office schedule, little risk of acute harm for extant practice.

Does anyone still use the self-assessment diagnostic tool to distinguish viral from bacterial caused URIs?

]]>