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Good Clinician Communication Improves Continuity of Care for U.S.-Born Latino Patients but Not for Immigrant Latino Patients [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Examine the association between patient-clinician interactions (communication, patient education, and shared decision-making) and continuity of care, patient satisfaction and diabetes treatment used among Non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Latino adults (including by nativity). 4.1), patient education (2.5,

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed two examples, anemia drugs and the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia) , which were prominently featured in recent articles by Peter Whoriskey in The Washington Post. for three more years, during which thousands of new patients were prescribed the drug.

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Bisphosphonates for Osteoporosis: Podcast with James Deardorff and Sei Lee

GeriPal

James: Yeah, I mean, first of all, I think anything in medicine is not going to be like a slam dunk type thing, except when we’re dealing with like insulin and type one diabetes it’s pretty obvious. It’s like 2007 or something. I don’t remember the exact year, but it was like… Eric: It was a ways ago.

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Navigating Insulin Initiation in Type 2 Diabetes: Unraveling the Sociodemographic and Biological Dynamics [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Treatment strategy for type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) often involves stepwise medication intensification, including the consideration of insulin therapy. The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors.

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