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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

By combining levels of urea nitrogen and albumin, BAR provides a comprehensive reflection of renal function, protein metabolism, and chronic inflammatory status, potentially offering a more holistic risk assessment for ICU patients with CKD.” By tertile, mortality rates were 14.6% in Tertile 1 (BAR, ≤9.8 mg/g), 24.6% in Tertile 2 (BAR, 10.0-17.4

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

It’s encouraging to see patients recognize what we, as healthcare providers, already know—that medications can be an effective option for people struggling with depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions,” said Dr. Brown. He was elected to serve AAPOR as its Vice President, President, and Past President from 2011-2014.

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

Permanente Medicine

There she led more than 600 physicians providing care for 275,000 members in various facilities including a Kaiser Permanente hospital, a contracted hospital, and 14 medical office buildings in Woodland Hills and West Ventura. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. million members. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

Palmer — The 2008 Ryan Haight Online Pharmacy Consumer Protection Act placed strict limits on online prescribing or the use of telemedicine encounters to prescribe controlled substances. a)(3), provided certain requirements, including requirements under state laws and conditions are met. By Karla L. 21 U.S.C. § 21 U.S.C. §

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Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

Which patients are eligible to go to an ACE unit? What are the benefits of an ACE unit? If ACE units are so great, why are they not so common? . What does the future look like for ACE units and how does it differ (if at all) from Age Friendly Health Systems? But before we do, do you have a song request? I think Kellie, do you have it? Alex: Yeah.

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FDA Cracks Down on ClinicalTrials.gov Reporting Failures

FDA Law Blog

The implementing regulations provide an alternative option for delayed submission of results information if the responsible party submits a certification that a premarket submission “has been filed or will be filed within 1 year” of the reporting deadline. The ClinicalTrials.gov database was launched more than 10 years ago in 2008.

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