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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

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. 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.

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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Lower Repeat BP in Primary Care [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). Population: Adult patients 18-85 presenting for ambulatory care with initial BP 140/90. However, MBI brief enough for the primary care setting have received little attention.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

19:05 Clarifying the “ethics vs science” argument and critiquing research techniques 22:00 Resurgence of race-based speculation in COVID-19-related research 25:57 Implantation of ideas about innate racial inferiority within medicine 28:32 Will removal of race from algorithms potentially harm our patients?

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

The patient has had improving activity and energy since his fall and initial ED evaluation 2 weeks prior. This patient had a subsequent brain MRI that also revealed papilledema. He also developed hypertension with bradycardia prompting surgical intervention. 2019, doi:10.1136/bcr-2018-228790 Jafrani, Ryan et al.

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FDA Publishes Two Draft Guidances Addressing Non-prescription Drugs Labels

FDA Law Blog

Interestingly, in the 2019 proposal for sunscreen labeling, FDA proposed to require a size at least one quarter the size of the most prominent printed matter). Patients with certain conditions, such as heart failure, hypertension, or chronic kidney disease, are advised to restrict their dietary intake of sodium, potassium and/or phosphorus.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2021-001143 The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound changes in patient and prescriber behaviour. In the United Kingdom (UK), primary care practitioners are the first-line clinicians which most patients encounter, providing initial assessment and treatment of a wide variety of conditions.