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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 Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. However, it is unclear whether results would generalize to other healthcare populations.

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Do Food Packaging Health Claims Correlate with Healthiness Or Mislead our Patients? [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007). But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods?

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. The practice steadily grew through the 80’s and 90’s, and Dr. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Joseph, P.C.,

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). It was then externally validated in a contemporary US population (EAST-PC data).

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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Lower Repeat BP in Primary Care [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). However, MBI brief enough for the primary care setting have received little attention.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

2007 ( Representative Nadeau ) established a spoken language health care interpreter work group. The Minnesota Hospital Association, as well as some individual hospitals, testified in support of the bill. Committee members raised concerns about what would happen if the federal funds were no longer available, but no clear answer was provided.

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Biased research, aggressive sales, harmful drugs

The Health Policy Exchange

Although a 2007 meta-analysis first sounded the alarm about rosiglitazone's cardiovascular risks, the manufacturer successfully stalled regulatory action in the U.S. Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine The size of average doses would more than triple.