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

Annals of Family Medicine

The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. 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. Final sample size was 435,731.

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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

To address this crisis, China has launched the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program in 2009, which includes several elderly care initiatives. However, its future remains uncertain. We advise the government to engage "quasi-officials" in the "third sphere" with the primary care policy-making process in the future.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Since we basically don’t have a clue, let alone agreement, about what Quality really is ( see my 2009 post “ Quality or Conformity? Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I Googled his name and found another article he had written, in 2009, in the Swedish Medical Journal, Läkartidningen. Medicine is a love that finds us wherever we happen to be. It snatched me, a quiet four year old boy, almost sixty [ eight(!) ] years ago. I don’t know how it happened.

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I Feel Things.

StorytellERdoc

What started as a small adventure and challenge from my writing group, with my first posting on November 19, 2009, turned into quite an amazing ride throughout the literary and social media world. Well, well, well.hello my long, lost friends. I missed you! I am human and I have flaws. My life isn't perfect. Not even close. Let me share. "I

ER 100
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FDA Knows Its Own Strength—and It Includes Concentration

FDA Law

This of course, make sense—after decades of experience implementing the Hatch-Waxman, Congress and FDA had learned a few new tricks by 2009/2010. To Boehringer’s first and most significant argument, that Congress intended the terms “strength” to match FDA’s interpretation in 2009—prior to the codification of the definition in 21 C.F.R.

IT 59
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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

2009 Jun;101(6):501-12. 2009 Jun;101(6):513-27. 1:05:57 Outtakes Takeaways Name Racism for What It Is If we don’t explicitly say the word racism, and identify its historical context, then we are complicit in its denial. This means that anti-racism must be embedded into practice, performance standards and institutional culture.