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

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. 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.

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Pain Management Trajectories in Parkinson’s Disease

Physician's Weekly

70056 The post Pain Management Trajectories in Parkinson’s Disease first appeared on Physician's Weekly. compared to 31.2% in those without PD. Investigators concluded that individuals with PD experienced a higher incidence of moderate to severe pain demanding opioid-class analgesics. Source: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejp.70056

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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. Context: Millions of American are churning out of Medicaid coverage following unwinding of continuous enrollment as a results of the end of the public health emergency.

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The Great RIF(T): One FDA Division’s Destruction and What it Could Mean for Generic Drugs

FDA Law

Indeed, since 2014, DPD facilitatedthe publication of 42 quarterly batches and dozens of stand-alone PSGs, plus three one-off batches of PSGs updated to align with recommendations in general guidance documents ( g. , Publishing virtually every GDUFA guidance and MAPP since 2014 to fulfill FDAs GDUFA commitments.

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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. To date, over 4,000 patients have been identified to have a pathogenic or likely pathogenic variant in a gene with medical management implications.

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Empowerment Self-Defense Arms ED Staff Against Rising Workplace Violence

Physician's Weekly

Security guards and panic buttons can help, but frontline staff are often left to manage volatile situations with few practical tools Empowerment Self‑Defense: A Practical Solution Empowerment Self-Defense (ESD) training offers a timely, evidence-based response.

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Probiotics don’t improve outcomes in children with acute gastroenteritis

PEMBlog

2018 Nov 22;379(21):2002-2014. References Schnadower D, Tarr PI, Casper TC, Gorelick MH, Dean JM, O’Connell KJ, Mahajan P, Levine AC, Bhatt SR, Roskind CG, Powell EC, Rogers AJ, Vance C, Sapien RE, Olsen CS, Metheney M, Dickey VP, Hall-Moore C, Freedman SB. N Engl J Med. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1802598. PMID: 30462938; PMCID: PMC6358014.

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