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Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia. Study Design: Retrospective single-site cohort study of patients diagnosed with SCD (ICD10 codes starting with D57) from Jan 2020 to December 2023.

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Using CPCSSN data, we defined a cohort of patients aged 50-105 with diabetes diagnosed before the pre-pandemic period. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description.

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

Recently, the Today Show highlighted Courtney (she asked that only first names be used), who visited 17 different doctors over three years to help diagnose her young son Alex, who she was watching suffer and decline before her eyes. The post Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses appeared first on Myriad Genetics.

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

Family Medicine Initiative

Even if one disagrees with the content, ESC guidelines are influential… The older 2020 ESC Leitlinie on atrial fibrillation has been cited over 10,000 times and read more than 2 million times. What do other Guidelines recommend?

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The association between BNT162b2 vaccinations and incidence of immune-mediated comorbidities [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background A large vaccination campaign was initiated worldwide in December 2020 in order to prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2 and severe Covid-19 disease. Therefore, our objective was to examine the association between vaccination and the incidence of autoimmune diagnoses in the first year after vaccine uptake.

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Long-Term Cancer Risk After Active Surveillance

Physician's Weekly

They implemented a nationwide population-based cohort study in Denmark, including all female residents diagnosed with incident cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 between ages 18–40 from 1998 to 2020. The primary outcome was vulvar, vaginal, anal cancer, or precancer.

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Triglyceride-Glucose Indices Predict Risk of NASH in NAFLD

Physician's Weekly

adults with NAFLD: results from NHANES 2017-2020,” published in the June 2025 issue of Frontiers in Endocrinology by Ma et al. The following is a summary of “Association between triglyceride-glucose related indices and at-risk NASH in U.S.