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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. OASI is the sum number of care elements offered (NSAID fills, opioid fills, intra-articular injection, knee x-ray, knee advanced imaging, and physical therapy). Final sample size was 435,731. Outcome Measures: Time to TKA.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. The severity of this problem has even made its way into pop culture.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

I opened my diary (an actual physical book, not Outlook) and the silver ribbon is firmly stuck in the week of Wednesday 22nd May. Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. I am catching up on various emails and tasks that I have been ignoring for the past few weeks.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

At that visit, his physical exam was normal. During this ED visit, the family notes that the child has had 1 week of vomiting whenever he eats. During this second ED visit, his physical exam including vital signs and mental status remains normal. 9,3 (2014): 168-72. No facial asymmetry. 7,1 (2012): 33-5. Arachnoid Cysts.”

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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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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. – As a pediatrician, Sayantani shares that physical health, corporeal health, intellectual health, and imaginative health can be thought of as a part of the same praxis. 2014 Feb;103:126-133. Soc Sci Med.

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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. Since an individual must have two copies of the mutation to be affected, the parents and other family members who have one copy, which are known as carriers, will be unaffected. Updated 2023 Jul 17].