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Low-Value Opioid Prescribing Trends for Acute Low-Back Pain in Rural Virginia Between 2019-2021 [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective A) Evaluate LVOP in Virginia during 2019-2021, and B) determine variation in LVOP for rural patients and those with low income in Virginia from 2019-2021. Despite declining opioid prescribing in the last decade, low-value opioid prescribing for acute pain (LVOP) (inconsistent with professional guidelines) has persisted.

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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

Study Design and Analysis: A retrospective cohort of providers and its patient panel for two performance years, 2019 and 2022. Setting or Dataset: The American Family Cohort database, derived from the PRIME registry. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study). Intervention/Instrument: Comprehensiveness of care for validity testing.

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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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Portrait of the reasons of consultation at a walk-in clinic in Quebec, from a patient perspective [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting Walk-in clinic of an academic family medicine clinic in Quebec, Canada. Population Studied All patients consulting at one walk-in clinic from January to October 2019 were invited to fill the CPS anonymously before seeing the doctor. Descriptive analyses were performed. On a voluntary basis, they could return their CPS.

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The Azento experience - Streamlining implant workflow at IDS 2019

CDOCS

Now Azento has crossed the Atlantic for the European launch.</p> We truly streamline digital implant workflow in three major steps; scan, approve, treat. And that is unique.&rdquo;</p> &rdquo; After scanning and approving a selfie, they received a custom-made treat in the form of a milkshake with their selfie on top. .&rdquo;</p>

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Fishhook Removal Techniques for GPs

Family Medicine Initiative

There are four common methods for removing a fishhook, which are explained well in the journal American Family Physician : Retrograde : the simplest method, but it only works in some cases. Der Beitrag Fishhook Removal Techniques for GPs erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative. Watch a 3-min-video here. Watch this 3-min-video.

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National variation in ASCVD risk between Pooled Cohort Equations and PREVENT [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis This study utilized data from NHANES 2011-2019 to calculate two ASCVD risk scores for each eligible individual: one using the race-based PCE and the other using the race-agnostic PREVENT equation. Each individual was separated into clinically significant risk categories of <7.5%, 7.5-10%, 10%, and >10%.