Articles
Plain explanations of what these assessments measure, written for the person having them and for the clinician reading the report.
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What Happens Before Your Appointment
Most of the history is collected beforehand, so the appointment itself is spent measuring rather than typing. What to tell us, and what to bring.
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Which Laboratory Runs the Blood Work
Where blood work is part of the plan it is drawn at the same visit. Which panels are selected, and the markers a standard annual panel usually leaves out.
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Quality Measures That Cardiometabolic Testing Supports
Most of what these assessments produce is documentation a practice already has to generate. The difference is that it is measured rather than attested.
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What Makes a Good Vascular and Autonomic Tester
Nearly every false abnormality in this suite is procedural. The person performing the studies is the largest single determinant of whether the numbers mean anything.
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Getting Diagnostic Results Into the Chart
A report filed as a scanned image satisfies a documentation requirement and answers no question you can ask across a panel.
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Supervision and Staffing for In-Office Testing
Whether a physician must be present depends on the study and the setting. The questions to settle in writing before the first patient, and who does what.
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How to Read Your Measura Report
Three habits make a report useful instead of alarming: read the pattern, read the conditions, and keep the previous one.
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Small-Fiber Versus Large-Fiber Neuropathy
If you have burning feet and a normal nerve conduction study, you were probably tested with the wrong instrument rather than reassured.
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How a Testing Plan Is Chosen
Nobody has all fifteen assessments. The panel is built backwards from the question you actually came in with.