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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

In 2007, Dr. Mancini joined the practice, followed by Dr. Meadows in 2012, and Dr. Gendernalik in 2015. Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that.

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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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Episode 176: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 8 – Towards Justice and Race Conscious Medicine

The Clinical Problem Solvers

2007 Jan 2;146(1):52-6. 2007 Apr 17;146(8):616. However it is important to remember that this political invention DOES affect biology because of the way that it creates social inequity. The answer to this question may not be easily answered and may not always be found in the clinical setting. Am J Public Health. 2016;106(12):2127-2129.