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Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

nurse practitioners and physician assistants), as well as validity of the measure and its association with poorly controlled diabetes (e.g. Study Design and Analysis: A retrospective cohort of providers and its patient panel for two performance years, 2019 and 2022. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study).

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

4 Chronic Kidney Disease The FLOW trial randomized 3,534 patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes and started treating them with s.c. mg or placebo in 2019. Both the FDA and EMA recommend that doctors monitor patients with diabetic retinopathy who are undergoing semaglutide treatment closely. semaglutide 1.0

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

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Outcomes associated with timing of screening for gestational diabetes [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Screening for gestational diabetes (GDM) at recommended times, based on a pregnant woman’s risk for GDM, is important in order to initiate and optimize the management of GDM as early as possible, thus mitigating the risk of several adverse outcomes for both pregnant women and their offspring.

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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. 46,844 patients were diagnosed with diabetes during study period. Having a prescription of insulin was not associated with likelihood of churning.

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Automatic Detection of Osteoporosis in Electronic Consultation (eConsult) Service Using Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied Population is a sample of the 2019-20 of endocrinology cases off the Champlain eConsult BASE™ system. Setting or Dataset Out of 844 size sample of endocrinology cases, our human expert annotated only 144 as true osteoporosis cases, flagged as a binary target. We took a random sample of 144 endo cases as non-osteo.

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Hyperinsulinemia Linked to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Physician's Weekly

from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study from June 2019 to August 2023 at a single institution’s outpatient gynecology clinic involving 205 premenopausal women aged 18 to 54 years: 116 with AUB and 89 with normal menstrual cycles. Salcedo, D.O.,