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

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. OASI is the sum number of care elements offered (NSAID fills, opioid fills, intra-articular injection, knee x-ray, knee advanced imaging, and physical therapy). years (SD 8.8), 78.2%

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Most children who present to Pediatric Emergency Departments these days with mental health concerns – including agitation – have a known psychiatric problem or diagnosis. Furthermore, the connection between physical and functional symptoms is inextricably linked in many patients. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

The hot sauces progressed from mild to extreme (and I mean extreme) heat. Can I just say…it works? Being asked a question with your mouth on fire, sweat streaming down your face, feeling the most awake and terrified you have ever been in your life, forces you to give an unadorned answer, straight from the heart. Lynn: Okay. Anne: GeriPal edition.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Wait, so one key message is that social health is linked to physical and cognitive health?!? Tsai-Chin’s article, published in Lancet Healthy Longevity, found a tantalizing hint that countries with stronger safety nets had lower incidence of wealth shocks, and less of a deleterious impact of the wealth shock on cognitive function.

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