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

Annals of Family Medicine

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

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To validate the use of OASI among patients with knee OA to predict TKA in Veterans Health Affairs-Corporate Data Warehouse (VHA-CDW) administrative dataset. Objective: To validate the use of OASI among patients with knee OA to predict TKA in Veterans Health Affairs-Corporate Data Warehouse (VHA-CDW) administrative dataset.

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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. They have remained independent and committed to caring for patients as a small practice, all the while introducing new ideas and setting new standards in Michigan’s Great Southwest.

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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

Objective: To develop and externally validate a simple risk score for influenza diagnosis based only on vaccination history and patient-reported symptoms. Outcome measures: In each study patient-reported symptoms were recorded and PCR used to diagnose influenza.

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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). Population: Adult patients 18-85 presenting for ambulatory care with initial BP 140/90. However, MBI brief enough for the primary care setting have received little attention.

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Roberts JD For the patient I see tomorrow: Beyond recognizing that race is not a proxy for biology, we can all ask ourselves “What way is structural racism affecting my patient and what can I do about it?” For example, GFR- race correction for Black patients. We should be focusing on root causes rather than proxies.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Boarding of Mentally Ill Patients in Emergency Departments: American Psychiatric Association Resource Document. Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Characteristics, Clinical Care, and Disposition Barriers for Mental Health Patients Boarding in the Emergency Department. 10.1542/peds.2022-057383