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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

I wrote this in 2016, when my visits were shorter because that EMR was simpler. In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit.

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New Draft Guidance Provides Detailed (and Burdensome) Recommendations for Chemical Assessments to Support Medical Device Biocompatibility

FDA Law Blog

Since the first issuance of FDA’s guidance Use of International Standard ISO 10993-1, “Biological evaluation of medical devices – Part 1: Evaluation and testing within a risk management process” in 2016, sponsors submitting premarket submissions to FDA have had the option of using these techniques to evaluate certain biocompatibility endpoints.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.

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Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. So we took this idea of, and it’s really an invitation from the national consensus project that every member of the team should be screening in all domains. I don’t know.

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CDC Emphasizes Opioid Guideline is Voluntary and Should Support, Not Supplant, Patient Care

FDA Law Blog

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. We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). By Larry K. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R.,

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GeriPal Takeover! Nancy Lundeberg and Annie Medina-Walpole

GeriPal

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Annie 05:16 So if you look back in history, I think Eric and Ken have been doing this since 2016. How to talk to patients about screening colonoscopies. Go Cubs, go.

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department.