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

The Health Policy Exchange

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only. in 2000 to 59.8%

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

Yet this expansion has come with a significant administrative burden, particularly that of clinical documentation. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment. Ambient dictation, or ambient clinical documentation, represents a paradigm shift. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment. The result?

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Promoting Compassionate Emergency Care for Children with Autism

PEMBlog

What you can do: Implement brief screening tools at registration to identify communication needs, sensory triggers, and calming strategies. Manage Wait Times with Intentionality Long, unstructured waits are hard for all kidsbut especially for autistic children who rely on routine and predictability. 2019-1895L. Pediatrics.

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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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Reducing cancer deaths, one test at a time

Permanente Medicine

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. The approach was simple: consistently alert patients that it’s time to get screened and make getting screened as easy as possible.

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Fundal Variceal Bleed Outcomes Improved With TIPS

Physician's Weekly

The primary composite outcome was all-cause mortality or clinically significant rebleeding within 1 year. Analyses included the modified intention-to-treat (mITT) population. The results showed that from January 3, 2019, to February 25, 2023, 292 individuals were screened, and 105 were randomly assigned. SD 5.0]).