Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention Practices for Lyme Disease by Clinicians

Written By amyarchambaultstudio

"Providers often don't test for Lyme disease when they should and do the test when they shouldn't. This leads to both under-diagnosis of Lyme disease ( in those people who have it) and over-diagnosis of Lyme disease ( in those people who don't have it)."
— Steven Luger, MD

From the medical literature - CDC, September 2021

“...Few providers correctly chose Lyme disease testing as clinically useful in the hypothetical case of a patient from a state with a high incidence of Lyme disease with an arthritic knee (36.0%) or with a new-onset atrioventricular block (39.5%), and respondents across all provider types incorrectly chose testing when not clinically indicated...”

Conclusions

“Many providers evaluate patients for tick bites and treat patients for Lyme disease, but knowledge about appropriate testing is low...”

Read More (Sage Journals):

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0033354920973235

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