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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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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. Der Beitrag Preventing Blood Pressure Misdiagnosis: Arm Position & Cuff Size erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative. So, here is a “standard”… What do the current ESC guidelines from 2024 recommend?

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Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Challenges persist in securing substantial funding for the Family Medicine (FM) research enterprise, particularly from major sources like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015.

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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. 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. Final sample size was 435,731.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

series The Pitt has drawn praise for its unflinching portrayal of the ED, including a widely discussed episode in which a patient’s family member violently assaults a nurse. The emergency room has become a pressure cooker, and healthcare professionals are paying the price. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My I am able to help my family members, taking them to appointments, go to my job—in fact, I was just promoted–without wanting to just run away!” exclaimed Ms.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. Still though, he usually perks up when I come in, because he gets to show me my scans from November 2014 and compare them with now and we both applaud the wondrousness of the miracle that is my recovery. That was a good week.

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