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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

mg or placebo in 2019. 15 Also, a systematic review (2019) of 50,452 diabetes patients did not show a statistically significant increase of the overall cancer risk (OR 1.04; 95% CI: 0.94 Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). semaglutide 1.0

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The Mycoplasma Comeback: Why This Atypical Pneumonia is Back – A PEMCurrents Podcast

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Describe the clinical presentation, epidemiology, and complications of Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections in pediatric patients, including its atypical manifestations. Clin Infect Dis 2019; 68:13. Now some patients can develop severe pulmonary complications, fortunately those are rare. Pediatr Emerg Care.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #2: Flight of Passage

PEMBlog

It is believed that this sequestered portion of his lung placed him at an elevated risk for infections as this is a known complication of bronchopulmonary sequestration. Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Pediatr Ann.

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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Dr. Margot Kushel is a Professor of Medicine and Division Chief at the Division of Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations and UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. Published April 5, 2019. January 18, 2019.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

I had looked at a research article that had recently evaluated the prevalence of private equity transactions in the hospice market and noted that there was a pretty substantial uptick in the past decade, and really over the course of say around 2015 to 2019. Because people, they go to the hospital, then they revoke. Go ahead, Lauren.

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‘Not Accountable to Anyone’: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options

Physician's Weekly

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. The practice isn’t new.