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Category: Clinic
Scheduling patients for a pulmonary clinic follow up
Per clinic policy, the following chart should aid providers on who to contact regarding pulmonary clinic follow up visits
DOAC/NOAC anticoagulation dosing by indication
The following document might help with dosing information by indication and renal function for the Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOAC) or novel oral anticoagulants (NOAC) medications
Easy way to order sleep studies on pulmonary patients
With the long waiting times to get patients into Sleep Clinic, Luisa has provided some tips you can do on your clinic visit to expedite this. There are only 3 very easy steps you need to do. Step one: in your note use this dot phrase: .sleeprequirements This info in your clinic note will be […]
Determining inhaler coverage
Although Zach created a list of all of the inhalers out there, it is often difficult to determine which inhalers are actually covered by a patient’s insurance plan. In addition, co-pays vary greatly. This is a significant barrier to writing prescriptions “on the fly”, as you are seeing the patient in clinic. In Epic you […]
nebulized hypertonic saline for sputum expectoration.
Although we may rarely need to prescribe hypertonic saline as an outpatient, finding this order in Epic is not intuitive. This post serves as a reference for when we need to write this. TYPE: sodium chloride 7% for nebulization. Then click the database lookup tab.
Ordering a sweat chloride test for patients
If a sweat chloride test needs to be performed to help workup a patient with bronchiectasis (to rule in/out cystic fibrosis): To set up the test The provider or the patient can call the main number at the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan (313-745-5541) Appointments are made for Monday and […]
Pathology consults
External pathology for review: 1. Order ‘surgical specimen exam 2. In the history, include the date of the biopsy and “Attn: ___” if you need a specific pathologist to read the slides (contact the pathologist directly to let them know there is path you want to review with him/her). You can also include a ‘due […]
Lung Nodule Surveillance Guidelines
Lung-RADS Fleischner Society Guidelines