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Validation of Mood and Anxiety Disorder Case Definitions using Primary Care Electronics Medical Records [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. Objective: To validate and apply electronic medical record (EMR)-based definitions for mood and anxiety disorders (inc. depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

Alex: Today we’re delighted to welcome Jerry Gurwitz, who is a geriatrician and professor of medicine at the UMass Chan Medical School. I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then one day when I was in my third year of medical school, I was in the gym and I hurt my back in a really horrific way. I was helped into a wheelchair kind of rushed to the emergency room, which was not far away because I was on the medical school campus. I thought I couldn’t finish medical school.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

So serious bacterial infection defined as any bacterial infection requiring medical intervention, but it may not invade sterile sites. And Van den Bruel in BMJ 2011 found procalcitonin to have better specificity than white blood cell count. Can they follow up with their primary care doctor or at your facility within 24 to 48 hours?