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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.31) and hospitalizations (aIRR 0.74, 95% CI: 0.54-1.02).

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Episode 354: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 25 – Live from SGIM 2024: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2024 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Interconception Care for Primary Care Providers: Consensus Recommendations on Preconception and Postpartum Management of Reproductive-Age Patients With Medical Comorbidities. Health Equity Considerations in State Bills Related to Doula Care (2015–2020). Zakaria, S., Vaught, A. Toth-Manikowski, S. Karbeah, J.,

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Beach has won numerous awards for her scholarship and mentorship, including the David Levine Mentoring Award from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2015. Clinically, she is boarded in both Internal Medicine and Addiction Medicine and practices as a primary care physician and teaching hospitalist.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today. Jessie, welcome back to GeriPal.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

It was also the time that in 2015, that people who were trans and famous really put being trans on the map at that time, too. And then if, let’s say they plan to switch to you as their primary care provider, then there are a few steps that you can take. So it coincided with that. Eric 05:59 Thank you.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

There’s always questions, are we going to update the alternatives list that we did for the 2015? And it sounds like there was this alternatives list from 2015, and you’re considering maybe. It orexins and the melatonin receptor agonists? Todd: Well, we haven’t come out with a statement to that effect.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And then when I did residency in internal medicine first, there was just a lot of focus on a lot of heroic management in the ICU that didn’t always appeal to me without thinking about what the morbidity might look like. I think we’re probably managing sicker patients on the floor. Julien: It’s a good question.