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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. 1.32) and hospitalizations (aIRR 1.14, 95% CI: 1.03-1.27).

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. Position Statement on Utilization of Measurement Based Care. Psychotherapy, 61(2), 101-109. American Psychiatric Association.

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HP&M Promotes James Valentine to Director

FDA Law Blog

James has been involved with the approval of many new molecular entities, often for serious and rare diseases, several which utilized the accelerated approval pathway (see examples discussed here and here ).

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Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015. Baum is the author of Marketing Your Clinical Practice-Ethically, Effectively, and Economicall y, which is in its 4th edition, has sold over 175,000 copies and has been translated into Spanish.

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It Takes Three [Components] to Make a Thing Go Riiiiiight – OPDP Challenges Two-Part Ad

FDA Law Blog

This content is likely one of the reasons for FDA’s withdrawal of the Draft Guidance in 2015 – the same year that FDA suffered one of the most significant blows regarding First Amendment protections for pharmaceutical manufacturer speech. Where FDA does not have jurisdiction, the agency may nevertheless take appropriate action (e.g.,

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HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Identify patient, provider, and healthcare process and utilization factors associated with rates of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine. Existing research on secondary acceptance has focused on demographics and initial declination with little evidence around factors associated with increased rates of secondary acceptance.

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A review of the utility of the ECG in Pediatric Syncope

PEMBlog

Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health, 2015. Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL , 22 May 2022, litfl.com/hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy-hcm-ecg-library/. Fleisher, Gary R., Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. Larkin, John, et al. Brugada Syndrome.” Life in the Fast Lane • LITFL , 20 Sept. Ritter, Saskia, et al.