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A Comparative Study Using Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) in Prenatal Screening Among Pregnant Women in Canada [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context The non-invasive prenatal screening (NIPS) has higher sensitivity and specificity in detecting trisomy 21, 18 or 13 than standard care screening, thereby reducing the need for more invasive confirmatory tests that can result in pregnancy loss. Population Studied Pregnant women aged 19 and older.

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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. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Meanwhile, the estimated time needed to provide guideline-recommended preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care to a nationally representative panel of 2,500 adult patients is an impossible 26.7 Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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"Survival Mode": Experiences of moral distress in Canadian primary care professionals during and after the COVID-19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This project explored the presence, nature, and effects of moral distress in Canadian primary healthcare professionals from two provinces during (March 2020-May 2023) and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Results: Twenty-five primary care professionals were recruited.

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The Future Of Vision And Eye Care

The Medical Futurist

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen. The journal Nature provided a commentary report on HKUST’s research into the bionic eye.

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GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor Results

Myriad Genetics

Myriad Genetics has been conducting the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor surveys since 2020 to learn about American attitudes towards mental health and related issues. Among those diagnosed with depression and/or anxiety, 62% of patients whose healthcare provider did not use PGx testing wish they had been informed about it. “I