Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) maintains that clinical privileges should be based on documented training and experience rather than the physician’s specialty. From 2016 to 2021, the percentage of screening colonoscopies performed by family physicians decreased from 11.3%

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

In 2016, FDA determined that e-cigarettes and their component parts fell under the term “new tobacco products,” requiring manufacturers of such products to submit PMTAs for FDA review before the Agency would issue a marketing order permitting the legal sale of the product. FDA failed on each count.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Most patients are afebrile by the third day of treatment and clinically improved within two weeks. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0032-2016. 2003.11.013.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Patients Asthma 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. And then we had clinical decision support. What is a cluster stepped wedge randomized trial? Long overdue.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? So when I was a resident at Cleveland Clinic, I got to see really cutting-edge technology, some of the best surgeons in the country, and perhaps in the world, operating on patients.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? I’m just stunned even writing that! Alex: Thank you.

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