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Combinations of Conditions Constituting Complex Multimorbidity Among Midlife and Older Adults with Diabetes in the Health and [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with diabetes often present with co-occurring chronic conditions (CC), or multimorbidity. Objective: We aimed to describe C-MM in midlife and older adults with self-reported diabetes and identify the combinations of conditions constituting C-MM. Intervention/Instrument: Observational study.

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Predictors of Poor Health Outcomes in Midlife and Older Adults with Diabetes in the 2018-2020 Health and Retirement Study [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

Diabetes co-occurs with other chronic conditions (CC), functional limitations (FL), and geriatric syndromes (GS). We conducted Classification and Regression Tree (CART) analysis to identify the specific combinations of CC, FL, and GS conditions and sociodemographic characteristics that predict each outcome overall, and by age and race.

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Rethinking Opioid Conversions: Mary Lynn McPherson and Drew Rosielle

GeriPal

I think part of it’s the math, but I think what really happened is, I think the story here is that in 2018, MD Anderson published this really landmark study by Dr. Reddy and her colleagues about going from IV Dilaudid to other to oral Dilaudid, oral hydromorphone, I should say, oral morphine and oral oxycodone. You take their function.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

The Health Resources and Services Administration projects a 50% increase in demand for geriatricians from 2018 to 2030, when the entire baby boom generation will be older than 65. They are increasingly filling a gap that is expected to widen as the senior population explodes and the number of geriatricians declines.

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Drug Pricing Reform Gathers Steam (Part 1): White House Drug Pricing Plan Offers Laundry List of Existing Democrat Priorities

FDA Law Blog

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize. Part D currently has no such cap.