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Multifaceted Disparities Impact Outcomes in Keratoconus, Corneal Hydrops

Physician's Weekly

In patients with unstable keratoconus, several sociodemographic and medical factors independently increased the odds of developing acute corneal hydrops, including Black race, public health insurance coverage, obesity, and developmental delay, researchers reported in PLOS One. with public health insurance coverage, and 1.05

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

GeriPal

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. They have poor pain, they have poor function, but you also can’t clearly make a diagnosis. And sometimes you can make a use disorder of diagnosis in hindsight.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. 2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. That never happens in CMS and other health insurance. But it was also later on in the disease. Malaz: Yeah. Diane: Huge.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Makary published a controversial study in 2016 hypothesizing that errors killed 250,000 people a year in the U.S. To track covid, he relied on daily feeds of private insurance data from around the country. There are things we could learn to improve our care and get more timely diagnosis of cancer.”