FDA Law Blog

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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Determine the epidemiological trends for patients infected with N. 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). Study Design and Setting: Retrospective case series.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Highlight how structural racism against Asian-Americans surfaces in clinical settings, and describe means of counteracting such structures. Nguyen encourages us to recognize how such barriers represent assumptions about people’s capabilities, how they can worsen people’s healthcare, and how they communicate exclusion to our Asian patients.

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FDA Law Blog

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. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R., MMWR Recomm Rep 2022;71(No.

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GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

Adapting Palliative Care Skills to Provide Substance Use Disorder Treatment to Patients With Serious Illness . 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. Right, Katie?

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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. Eric: And who are the patients including in this trial, again? Kate: These are very sick patients. Kate: Sure.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Clinicians “catching” patient life stories. . Our patients aren’t “the 76 year old with heart failure in room 202,” as Heather Coats astutely noted. Storytelling Helps Hospital Staff Discover The Person Within The Patient. She was a heart failure patient. Because that really is what this is about. What’s in a story?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. It was eyeopening to see patients in their own home. And so that really triggered my interest.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Alex: Okay.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Along the way we address: Is this degree of slowed cognitive decline meaningful to patients or care partners? Eric: So patient narrative storytelling, independent of what we call it, I’d like to turn to both of you and just how you got interested in this as a subject. She was a heart failure patient.

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GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

You have a patient with dementia severe enough that she cannot recognize relatives. A huge part of this decision rests on (1) her previously stated wishes, values, and goals (prior to the onset of dementia); and (2) the outcomes of surgery for patients with dementia. Summary Transcript Summary. She falls and breaks her hip.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

We all must recognize the codification of racism within our institutions and work to unlearn these hierarchies in order to better care for Black and Indigenous patients. She urges us to recognize that maternal mortality changes the life trajectories of individuals and communities. Published April 20, 2016. Healthcare.

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

Annie 02:31 So if you go to the A G S meeting every year, you know that this group of three individuals comprises the AGS literature update. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. But in spite of that, it is a lot of work for three individuals to pull all this together.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 5, 2024

Houck — The Associated Press reported on Tuesday following confirmation by five anonymous individuals with knowledge that the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) is moving to reschedule marijuana from schedule I to the less stringently controlled schedule III. By Larry K. 30, 2024). 53,688 (Aug. 53,767 (Aug.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Eric: And what a research agenda that you’ve done, including one of the most seminal papers that we have in palliative care in lung cancer patients.

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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. Inborn Errors of Metabolism.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The proximity to campus health clinics may also afford college students greater accessibility to healthcare providers for prescription medications such as stimulants which could end up being misused. Besides the risks to an individual, there are also population-level harms from normalizing certain harmful behaviors (e.g., Pediatrics.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. And yet, we know little about the clinical experience of people with dementia in hospice. People with dementia make up about half of hospice admissions. And I had a blast playing Take the Money and Run!

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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.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in children: incidence and patient characteristics. 2016 Apr;83:78-83. But it might underestimate it because lots of mild cases don’t actually present clinically, and they’re not diagnosed endoscopically. 2005 Nov;128(5):3391-7. Isaac A, Zhang H, Soon SR, Campbell S, El-Hakim H.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 5, 2023

I love this article as it specifically discusses what’s wrong with “ need ” statements and how we can shift our communication and thinking to create space for deliberation about patients’ priorities and the best course of action. Now doctors are unwilling to understand patients’ values and make recommendations, taking the science to it.

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GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

Liz wrote a fabulous perspectives piece in the NEJM titled “ Deciding on My Dimples ” which talks about her experience as a patient doing shared decision making during neurosurgery for resection of an astrocytoma. But my piece in the New England Journal is about being a patient right before awake brain surgery. I could learn this.

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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. There have been a few severe cases and one individual died with H5N1 infection. H5N1 is currently known to be widespread among wild birds and is thought to be spread by migratory waterfowl.

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BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries. 9 The availability of electronic health records makes it easier to follow up on patients’ health information for an extended period.

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GeriPal

JULY 25, 2024

The PPS is one of the most widely used prognostic tools for seriously ill patients, but the prognostic estimates given by the PPS are based on data that is well over a decade old. Eric 04:39 Yeah, I see it used on inpatient, side on consult clinics in hospices. Why do this? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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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. What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? Really appreciate that.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Currently, individual Medicare Part D plan sponsors negotiate rebates but the government is explicitly prohibited from interfering in those negotiations. Controlling Medicare Part D Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs and Total Drug Costs. Drug Price Negotiation to Benefit Medicare and Commercial Plans.

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