Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. A recent analysis of the U.S.

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Screening Routine Screenings Complication Diagnose 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Ellen had been diagnosed with vascular dementia, peripheral vascular disease, and Type 2 diabetes. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” The AMA points out that doctors must have more schooling and significantly more clinical experience than nurse practitioners.

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Nurse Practitioner Family Families Primary Care 52

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Are there meaningful ways of assessing loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings and connecting patients with interventions? The Listening “EAR” approach that simplifies assessment of loneliness and social isolation in clinical settings, and other practical pointers. And then the second one in 2015.

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 99

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. And that was what I was becoming increasingly drawn to as I was going further in my oncology training.

Illness 110

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients 110

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access. As a nurse case manager in hospice, half of my patients had dementia.

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Family Families IT Patients 106

PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

It was inspired by a hot-off-the-presses publication from the Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) focused on clinical decision rules for cervical spine imaging in children. Epub 2010 Oct 29. Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. Cervical Spine Injuries are fortunately rare in children.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Hospital 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. Eric 07:31 A clinical perspective, why is it important to test this stepped care model versus implementing more? And there’s a mortality number of people who just can’t make it to get to our clinic.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 119