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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. remain between 15-30%, costing $150 billion annually.

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Film Representation and Stigma of Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures: Demographic characteristics, presence of abuse, use of actors with ID, change in the frequency of derogatory language like "retarded", degree of character development, community development, relationship development, common stereotypes and archetypes, and perceived movie quality (based on IMBD ratings), before and after 1990.

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Association between obstructive sleep apnea and quality of life in Korean middle-aged people: a cross-sectional study.

Physician's Weekly

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between OSA risk and quality of life among middle-aged and older adults in South Korea. Enhancing sleep quality is essential for improving overall quality of life.

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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.,

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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

2019 Sep 4;2(9):e1910465. 2019 May;143(5): PMID: 29987170. Heard-Garris N, Sacotte KA, Winkelman TNA, Cohen A, Ekwueme PO, Barnert E, Carnethon M, Davis MM. Association of Childhood History of Parental Incarceration and Juvenile Justice Involvement With Mental Health in Early Adulthood. JAMA Netw Open. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10465.

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Long-Awaited Guidance on FDAMA 115: Confirmatory Evidence Finally Has Its Moment (to be Crossed Off the FDA’s Guidance To-Do List)

FDA Law Blog

However, the two previous FDA guidance documents, released in May 1998 ( Providing Clinical Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products , available here ) and December 2019 ( Demonstrating Substantial Evidence of Effectiveness for Human Drug and Biological Products , available here ), differ from the new guidance.

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