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Decisional Regret Two-Year after Diagnosis with Low-risk Prostate Cancer in a Population-based Sample [Cancer research (not screening)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess decisional regret (DR) and QOL changes by treatment choice (surgery, radiation or active surveillance) two years after diagnosis in a cohort of men with LPC. Patients: Black and White men ≤75 years with newly diagnosed LPC, 2014 to 2017. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. years at baseline (SD=6.7,

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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 first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. Results: Overall, average age at OA diagnosis was 64.0 Final sample size was 435,731. Intervention/Instrument: OASI, updated every 6-months from OA date to end of follow-up. Outcome Measures: Time to TKA. years (SD 8.8), 78.2%

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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. During this ED visit, the family notes that the child has had 1 week of vomiting whenever he eats. What’s the Diagnosis? 9,3 (2014): 168-72. This is the first of the four cases. Epidermoid cyst B.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. Inborn errors of metabolism in infancy: a guide to diagnosis. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices.

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Medical Cannabis Revisted: A Podcast with David Casarett and Eloise Theisen

GeriPal

This is back in, I don’t know, like 2014 maybe. I mean, I think, you know, people talk about withdrawal syndrome and it is an official DSM for diagnosis, but I’m not sure it’s. But you really should be looking at family history, personal history. [laughter] David 04:24 That’s what they all say.

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