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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, amidst a national opioid crisis and debate surrounding opioid guidelines, ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship (‘ECHO Pain’), the first ECHO in Canada, was launched. Objective To describe the achievements of ECHO Pain and highlight our research and program evaluation progress over ten years.

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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 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. The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date.

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Preventing Blood Pressure Misdiagnosis: Arm Position & Cuff Size

Family Medicine Initiative

Yet, a review in 2014 showed that guidelines and studies still recommend and use different arm positions. It remains questionable whether this modest effect is clinically relevant, or whether it justifies the effort and potential worries of patients. Last week (November 21), a systematic review of 65 studies was published.

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Episode 90: Clinical unknown with Rabih and Reza at MUSC – fever

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Rabih and Reza tackle a clinical unknown at MUSC with host, Dr. Marc Heincelman. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, medical degree from Loyola University of Chicago, and completed his combined internal medicine/pediatrics residency at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2014.

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Episode 165: WDx #8 – Clinical unknown with Dr. Ann Marie Kumfer & Dr. Debra Bynum

The Clinical Problem Solvers

After completing a year as Chief Resident, she joined the faculty at WakeMed hospital where she worked in the clinic caring for Raleigh’s underserved, attended on the inpatient service with UNC residents and students, and helped to found one of the first hospitalist programs in the area.

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. More than 35,000 patients completed clinical genetic testing following GWA or BHA completion.

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DEA Regs Bulk Up with 2014 Anabolic Steroid Control Law Additions

FDA Law Blog

Because anabolic steroids are also abused to enhance athletic performance and increase muscle strength, Congress has enacted three laws regulating anabolic steroids: the Anabolic Steroid Control Acts of 1990 and 2004, and the Designer Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2014 (“DASCA”). DASCA became law, amending the CSA, on December 18, 2014.