Permanente Medicine

APRIL 29, 2025

million men and women aged 50 to 75 examined the outcomes of a Kaiser Permanente Northern California initiative begun in 2006 to increase colorectal cancer screening rates. Deaths per 100,000 for Hispanic, white, and Asian patients decreased to 20 during the same time period. The study of 1.1

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FDA Law

MARCH 15, 2023

The MQSA was passed to ensure, among other things, that nationwide, patients have access to quality mammography services. See Government Accountability Office, “ GAO-06-724 Mammography: Current Nationwide Capacity Is Adequate, but Access Problems May Exist in Certain Locations ” (July 2006). Your breast tissue is not dense.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. And just going back to that patient, I’ll tell you, before I started this role, I would have probably looked at the handout box in our clinic and been like, oh, okay.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database that includes vaccine safety information from millions of patients, according to multiple sources. The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. Results of that work are expected this fall.

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GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And so the patients who had been admitted there to die, essentially most, if not all, got better and HIV became much more of a chronic condition. It is kind of weird that my first publication was in jama, part of the Care of the Aging Patient series. And I think patients too, don’t always people. Meredith 11:29 Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Everything.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates.

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