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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Timing of Repeat Epinephrine in Pediatric Anaphylaxis: How Long Should We Observe?

PEMBlog

Researchers conducted a retrospective cohort study across 30 US and 1 Canadian pediatric emergency departments, analyzing data from 5641 children (ages 6 months to 17 years) treated with epinephrine for an acute allergic reaction between 2016 and 2019. 4 hours 1.9% 6 hours 1.1% No respiratory or cardiovascular symptoms 105 (95% CI 54–135) 4.1%

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COVID-19 Series (Part Two) with Dr. Laura Bishop

Louisville Lectures

She covers practical aspects of evaluating patients including appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) usage and finishes this segment with clinical exam/laboratory/imaging findings. Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patietns with 2019 Novel Coronavirus-Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China.

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Episode 26 – Clinical Unknown – Drs. Eckenrode & Centor present to Reza & Rabih – Chest pain and anemia

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She is passionate about medical education and is excited to be staying at UAB next year doing both adult primary care and pediatric hospital medicine. [link] Episode description Drs. In her spare time she enjoys reading (and is proud of the book club she started in Birmingham), doing calligraphy, and traveling.

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? mg or placebo in 2019. mg or placebo in 2019. Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). over 40 months (ARR).

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Risk Factors for Coercion in Open Psychiatric Inpatient Wards

Physician's Weekly

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the prevalence and risk factors of coercive measures in open inpatient wards of a Swiss university psychiatric hospital. They analyzed the use of seclusion and restraint from 2017 to 2019.

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Heart Failure Pharmacology with Dr. Regan Wade

Louisville Lectures

Watch on YouTube Listen as a Podcast Watch more Lectures about Cardiology Regan Wade, PharmD, BCPS Dr. Regan Wade is an Internal Medicine Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacy Residency Preceptor at the University of Louisville Hospital. For more information, see our citation page.