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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

Analyses were stratified by age at diagnosis (<30 years, ≥30 years), calendar period (1998–2012, 2013–2020), and index cytology (non-high-grade, high-grade). Stratified analyses by age, diagnosis year, and index cytology showed similar outcomes. The primary outcome was vulvar, vaginal, anal cancer, or precancer.

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Q&A: Cannabis Use Tied to Reduced Working Memory

Physician's Weekly

Gowin and his colleagues analyzed data from 1,003 adults between 22 and 36 years of age who had functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), urine toxicology, and cannabis use results collected at one academic site between 2012 and 2015 as part of the Human Connectome Project. The cohort (mean age, 28.7 The cohort (mean age, 28.7

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Fast Facts: Management of sleep apnea in children

PEMBlog

Shiffman; Diagnosis and Management of Childhood Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome. Pediatrics September 2012; 130 (3): 576–584. 2012-1671 Katz ES, Marcus CL. Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in infants and children. 10.1542/peds.2012-1671 Principles and practice of pediatric sleep medicine.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct. Complaint ¶ 60. Complaint ¶ 61.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 1: A House Divided

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. Diagnosis is typically delayed due to normal regular menstruations from incomplete vaginal outlet obstruction and slow progression of hematocolpos. 2012 Jan;5(1):67-70. This is the first of the four cases.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

PEMPix is the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Emergency Medicine’s annual visual diagnosis competition. What’s the Diagnosis? 7,1 (2012): 33-5. This is the first of the four cases. This case was submitted by Dr. Moves all extremities equally against gravity. Intact sensation to light touch bilaterally.