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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study aesign and analysis: Multilevel linear probability models used to test the association between primary care utilization and geographic accessibility of primary care providers (PCP) after controlling for demographic characteristics, medical conditions, rurality, and neighborhood-level racial and economic segregation. PP; p=0.017).

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The primary care practitioners’ (PCP) perceptions of disease given patients’ conditions are reflected in their narrated questions to specialists while using eConsult, an online primary care service. We then used pretrained Language Model (BERT) to extract important terms associated with contrasting segments of data.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Eric: Any other interesting tidbits or facts that we should know as providers about gabapentin or Lyrica dosing or pharmacology? But also just in my limited practice, and I’m a relatively new provider, I’ve just noticed that pain management is so individualized.

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DEA Cranks Out Updated Special Surveillance List and Proposed Regulatory Actions

FDA Law Blog

The newly updated Surveillance List includes chemicals, materials and equipment used in the manufacture, production and distribution of currently abused synthetic drugs like fentanyl, amphetamine, methamphetamine, PCP, LSD, ketamine and others. Scheduling 4-FA in schedule I will enable the U.S. to fulfill its treaty obligations.