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The Impact of a Health Professions Education Program on Concussion Management: A Multi-Methods Study of ECHO Concussion [Neurologic illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

The ECHO (Extensions for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model is an ideal platform for dissemination of best practice guidelines and standards of care in common, complex, acute and chronic conditions. ECHO Concussion was launched in 2019 to teach clinicians a comprehensive approach to concussion diagnosis and management.

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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: Administrative data from the Optum Labs Data Warehouse 2015-2019 that contains de-identified medical and pharmacy claims and eligibility information for commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees in the US. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 0.76) and similar rates of pain-related ED visits (aIRR 1.12, 95% CI: 0.95-1.31)

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Trends colliding: Aging comprehensive family physicians and the growing complexity of their patients

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To assist in workforce planning by updating trends in the characteristics of near-retirement comprehensive family physicians (FPs) and their patients since the COVID-19 pandemic. We compared these populations to pre-pandemic analyses (2008, 2013, and 2019). Setting Ontario.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

Potential use in palliative care , chronic pain , and for mood disorders is tantalizing. Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. Research is exploding. Stacy: Yes.

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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

A May 2019 CMS final rule that would have required drug TV advertisements to disclose the WAC of the drug was challenged by a group of pharmaceutical companies and vacated on statutory grounds by the D.C. Controlling Medicare Part D Patient Out-of-Pocket Costs and Total Drug Costs.