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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

The analysis included data from 69,109 children born between 2010 and 2017, of whom 5,290 (7.65 Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D., from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues sought to externally validate and update the PARS as a passive digital marker (PDM) for asthma risk.

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Updated rheumatoid arthritis treatment recommendations

Medical Xpress

Since their first publication in 2010, the EULAR recommendations for the use of disease-modifying anti-rheumatic treatments (DMARDs) in people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have become a most important publication in the field, and their updates are relied upon by many healthcare professionals, professional organizations and other stakeholders to (..)

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

But it’s interesting because I started seeing, even though for instance I was working on this much earlier, but I published my large meta-analysis linking this to risk for premature mortality back in my first one in 2010. Eric: 2010 was so long ago, we barely had Amazon Prime then. And then the second one in 2015.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? I think that has been my biggest change in my clinical practice as far as prescribing is thinking about how we can better care for individuals and think about the risks of Opioids too. We mentioned her name before.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And the goal, even with comfort feeding only, and what was a revelation to me is it was introduced back in 2010 as a response to the recognition that tube feeding was fraught with problems, you know, caused decubitus ulcers, didn’t extend life. And also I’d rather know that I myself not going to be super thirsty.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Despite this deliberately circumscribed mandate (I lost count of the number of times during my tenure as an AHRQ medical officer from 2006-2010 that I was told, "We don't make guidelines. Ironically, the need for AHRQ's work has never been greater.