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Should We Screen for Atrial Fibrillation? ESC Says Yes (2024), Evidence Says…?

Family Medicine Initiative

In November 2024, two new RCTs were published that investigated whether atrial fibrillation screening using an ECG is effective. A limitation was that only 49% of those invited participated in the screening. UK National Screening Committee (2019): “Screening is not currently recommended for this condition.”

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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. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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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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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. 3, 4) Why is MBC important? 3, 5, 6) b. Lengerich, A. DeSantis, B., Comeau, C.

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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. in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery.

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Incidence Rates of Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma Increasing

Physician's Weekly

The study included 4,858 persons aged 20 years or older when diagnosed with pathologically confirmed primary AA (nonmucinous, mucinous, goblet cell, or signet ring cell carcinoma) from 1975 to 2019. Twenty-one overlapping birth cohorts were created using five-year age groups and time periods (1891-1899 to 1991-1999).

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My I am able to help my family members, taking them to appointments, go to my job—in fact, I was just promoted–without wanting to just run away!” exclaimed Ms.