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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Administrative electronic health record (EHR) datasets offer a low-cost opportunity to investigate influences on knee osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and outcomes such as total knee arthroplasty (TKA). Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a clinical decision support? Long overdue.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? And, they thought, “This is a racket.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients. That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. Eric: Let’s say tomorrow, a patient comes into your clinic. Eric: Mm-hmm.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

His clinical study was ending. CDC vaccine safety officer Robert Chen built on VAERS to create the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which looks for evidence of vaccine harms in electronic health records. In 2001, the CDC set up the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment project, through which a network of eight U.S.