Kaiser Permanente Roseville Medical Center

Electronic Visit Use for Sexually Transmitted Infection Testing in a Large Integrated Healthcare System

Abstract Background Incorporating online testing platforms, such as electronic-visits (e-visits), into a larger healthcare system could increase access to services for persons in need of testing. A sexual e-visit was built that allows users to order laboratory-based sexually tran...

Predictors of Blood Culture Ordering and Results for Febrile Infants Aged 91 to 365 Days in the Emergency Department

Introduction The risk of invasive bacterial infections has dropped significantly among febrile infants due to widespread vaccination efforts. In older infants (age 91 days and older), diagnostic guidance is limited, and blood culture ordering is based on clinical judgment. We sou...

Wellens’ Syndrome: A Critical ECG Pattern Signaling Impending Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Infarction

Wellens' syndrome is an underrecognized electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern that indicates critical stenosis of the left anterior descending (LAD) artery and impending myocardial infarction (MI). Unlike other acute coronary syndromes, it often presents without ST-segment elevation or...