The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She is the Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Chair of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). Dr. Benton mentors clinical and research physicians, fellows, and postdoctoral trainees. Jeffrey Bridge, a leading researcher at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. Experts even say the eye is an ideal place to start for the first clinical use of CRISPR. Google is not the only one working on A.I.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Regulating LDTs: A Long and Winding Road In what might sound to some like protesting too much, the PR invokes FDA’s longstanding assertion that IVDs “manufactured” by laboratories are medical devices and that clinical laboratories that develop tests are acting as manufacturers. FDA’s position is, however, only one side of the story.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Javitt — On September 28, 2022, the FDA issued the long anticipated final Clinical Decision Support Software Guidance (CDS Guidance), which replaces the revised draft guidance document from 2019. Interpretation of Statutory Criteria Under the Final Guidance. Other medical information.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Most patients are afebrile by the third day of treatment and clinically improved within two weeks. doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.TNMI7-0032-2016. 2018 Jul;48(3):247-250. Epub 2018 Apr 6.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The generation of HF data is a detailed and fairly burdensome process, although certainly short of a full-blown clinical study. By Jeffrey K. Shapiro — More than a decade ago, FDA began systematically to incorporate review of human factors (HF) design validation within 510(k) reviews. In one way, this is good news.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied – The Vizient® Clinical Data Base was queried for inpatient discharges between January 2016 and February 2024 with an ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for naegleriasis (B60.2). Objective: Determine the epidemiological trends for patients infected with N. Study Design and Setting: Retrospective case series.

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FDA Law

MARCH 17, 2022

We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. 2016 Guideline. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. 7,838 (Feb.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

The person, who lives in southern Illinois, was hospitalized with complications from the mosquito-borne virus, according to the U.S. This is the earliest West Nile virus case reported in Illinois since 2016. More information The Cleveland Clinic has more on West Nile virus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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FDA Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

FDA conducted the eight-factor scheduling analysis required by the CSA in 2016 and found that marijuana continued to meet the scheduling criteria for remaining in schedule I. 12, 2016); Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to Reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Houck — On November 4th, CDC issued its revised guideline on prescribing opioids for pain as an expansion and update of its 2016 CDC Opioid Prescribing Guideline. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy.

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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. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.” Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Dr. Kozhimannil discusses her work on rural maternity care and the lack of hospital-based obstetric services. hospitals could improve access to high-quality maternity care. Published April 20, 2016. The practice of midwifery in rural US hospitals. The Clinical Problem Solvers Podcast – Antiracism in Medicine Series.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. 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.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. In other words, in addition to being a specialist (e.g. Naomi 01:09 Thank you. Good to be here.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

Alex: And we are also delighted to welcome Areej El-Jawahri, who is an oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital as well, who specializes in blood cancers. Jennifer: They have a meaningful impact on what happens to them during the hospitalization and after. They all self-identified as a hospital based practice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We used all of our political capital to make sure it happens in Chicago, which is where we started for the literature Updates back in 2016, back when it was just me and Ken, and then we brought in Alex, like two years later. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. Go Cubs, go.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Been in the hospital four times, vented, been told the story to her family, she won’t live. Within the VA it’s now at 70 VA hospitals. It started here at Madison at one and it’s also spread outside the VA now to hospitals in Boston, Providence and now starting up actually in California and UCLA and UCSF.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. This is both a research and a clinical interest of yours. They don’t have an addiction clinic. Eric: And why Under Pressure. I’m going to start off with Katie. Right, Katie?

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

Joel: The Brigham and Women’s Hospital likes me to say that too. Alex: And the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. And she was rushed to the hospital. And they agreed on that and they talked to the people at the hospital, the surgeons and the nurses. They stayed in the hospital for longer. Joel: Oh yeah.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 11, 2024

The number of people who have used MAID in Canada since it was legalized in 2016 has increased year on year from about 1,000 people in the first year to over 13,000 people in 2022. Alex: We’re delighted to welcome Leonie Herx, who’s a palliative care physician and clinical professor at the University of Calgary. Eric: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She is a member of the Clinical Genome Resource Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) Clinical Domain Working Group, where as a biocurator she assesses the pathogenicity of variants in IEM-associated genes to facilitate expedited genetic diagnosis for IEMs. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. On clinical presentation.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. For-profit hospices having much higher rates of their patients visiting the emergency department and being hospitalized, in addition to disenrollment. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke. What motivated you?

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. We have these quality metrics like hospitalization days before death, used hospice, enrolled in hospice, and days before death. And so, how can this be?

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

We need to strike it from our vocabulary and leave sort of a gap in the clinical vernacular about how we talk about life-sustaining treatment. I have never had a patient come into the hospital and say, Doctor, regardless of what you do, do a little CPR that’ll make me feel better. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

So tiny, tiny, in a hospital bed. And so the importance of the picture and the epiphany that really came many years later, I published a paper in the Journal of Clinical Oncology called Dignity in the Eye of the Beholder. How do you do that in clinical practice, in a way that doesn’t take five hours of sitting down with somebody?

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FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities. For providers, it is highly encouraged to submit samples from hospitalized patients to a laboratory capable of identifying H5N1 if influenza is confirmed in the inpatient setting and H5N1 is suspected.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

First time on the GeriPal podcast, Liz Lilley, who’s a surgeon and faculty in surgery at the Brigham Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Alex 00:18 Prognosis, super special today. And we have some great guests. Liz 00:32 Thanks.

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GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

Today we talk with Margot Kushel about how we got here, including: That sense of powerlessness as a clinician when you “fix up” a patient in the hospital, only to discharge them to the street knowing things will fall apart. We would admit them to the hospital. Who doesn’t want to leave the hospital? Really appreciate that.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. 2015, 2016. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive.

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FDA Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Under priority 3, CDRH will continue to promote advancement of regulatory science; strategize gap areas; discover and improve understanding; better understand women’s experience; facilitate sex and gender analyses; and identify areas where clinical trial enrollment can be better balanced for women.

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FDA Law

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

To counter this increase, the Administration threw its support behind proposals to levy an excise tax or a rebate for manufacturers that raise product prices faster than the rate of inflation with no clinical reason. Other legislative proposals included improving supply chain transparency.

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