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Dramatic improvement in the prevalence of disabilities among older Americans since 2008

Medical Xpress

The prevalence of disabilities among American adults aged 65 and older is much lower than it was for the same age group a decade earlier, according to a nationally representative study published online in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).

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Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015. Analyses from a decade ago revealed stagnant funding levels, prompting further investigation into the subsequent years.

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Elevated BAR Signals Poor Prognosis in Patients With CKD Admitted to ICU

Physician's Weekly

The study investigated the association between BAR and 28-day mortality risk in 4,625 adult patients from the publicly available Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care IV database, which included health records for patients in the ICU at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center between 2008 and 2022. By tertile, mortality rates were 14.6%

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ICU Statin Therapy Tied to Significant Sepsis Mortality Reduction

Physician's Weekly

Using the Medical Information Mart for Intensive Care-IV database, the authors reviewed health record data from 20,230 adults with sepsis treated in the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center ICU between 2008 and 2019. Statin exposure during the ICU stay defined the treatment cohort.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

Lavrakas served the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) as its first Conference Operations chair in 1996-1997, as Program Chair in 1997-1998, and as Senior Counselor at Large in 2008-2010. In 2003, he was the co-winner of the AAPOR Innovator’s award for helping to establish the Standard’s Definitions Manual.

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Letitia Bridges, MD, MBA, appointed to chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation

Permanente Medicine

Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. Visionary physician leader to oversee national coordinated efforts that support and advance Kaiser Permanente’s acclaimed levels of high-quality care OAKLAND, Calif., million members.

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Silence Isn’t Golden: Two Executives Convicted in First Criminal Prosecution Under the Consumer Product Safety Act

FDA Law Blog

17, 2023, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the first-ever conviction of two corporate executives in a criminal prosecution for failure to report a consumer product defect under the CPSA. What led to this conviction? It is a long story that started more than a decade ago. It involved Gree Electric Appliances Inc. and Gree USA Inc.