Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

Introduction The Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) recognizes the utility and potential for Measurement Based Care (MBC) as a core feature of high-quality integrated healthcare. Position Statement on Utilization of Measurement Based Care. Measurement-based care in integrated health care: A randomized clinical trial.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. The study is divided into three periods: pre-COVID (Oct 2019 to Mar 2020), COVID (Apr 2020 to May 2023), and post-COVID (Jun 2023 to Dec 2023). from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Mixed models were used for analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: We utilized the CDC state-specific Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BFRSS) data from 2020 and 2022. Study Design and Analysis: A cross-sectional study that incorporated multivariable Poisson regression models to estimate the adjusted prevalence ratio (aPR) with 95% confidence intervals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Early identification and intervention in behavioral aspects of chronic diseases leads to improved function with decreased healthcare utilization, yet we know little about referral patterns for behavioral support of chronic disease. Our work builds a foundation for cost-effective workflows to support patients with multimorbidity.

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

The NORD report notes: “Genetic testing…is being increasingly utilized to help diagnose rare diseases, the majority of which are genetic in origin. Knowing More and more, doctors, researchers, and families are turning to technologies like AI and even Google to help them decode health symptoms and get on the road to solutions and treatments.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our esteemed publications should ensure that investigations that utilize racial variables follow these guidelines before being published. September 8, 2020. Examining the Potential Impact of Race Multiplier Utilization in Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Calculation on African-American Care Outcomes. Published July 2, 2020.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

By the utilization of patient financing strategies, we can help to facilitate a means of affordability for the everyday patient.</span></span></p> Reinforce the motivation for treatment by utilizing the same interdisciplinary vocabulary amongst offices. link] & Updated December 2020.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. These systems also provide a consistent note structure, which can improve the overall readability and utility of patient records. That’s the essence of ambient dictation. References: 1.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

Further, “there is little utility in comparing the language of the BIS to that of the AKS.”. Most of these cases have settled out of court (see, for example, Actelion Pharmaceuticals , 2018; Astellas Pharma and Amgen , 2019; Gilead Sciences , 2020). OIG disagreed. The Lesson of this Case.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

released in April 2024, marks the first update since 2020. This update incorporates new guidelines and enhancements to address the evolving needs of the healthcare industry, improving the clarity and utility of the submitted information. The latest iteration, version 5.0,

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FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The final guidance appears not to make any meaningful changes that are actually likely to support or incentivize its increased utilization, which is disappointing, although not unsurprising. The Agency has reportedly been trying to improve the program, as we discussed in 2018 and 2020. Fiscal Year 2023 showed similar performance.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The Court found that there is at best little utility in interpreting the AKS by reference to the BIS. As Pfizer has argued throughout this legal battle, its proposed copay assistance program “poses no risk of corrupting independent decision making” or of inducing improper utilization of tafamidis. Pfizer’s Petition to SCOTUS.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

One less utilized method (and for good reason) to gain more certitude is the 513(g) Request for Information. Sometimes, though, there is no clear precedent, and the product’s regulatory status falls into an undiscovered country.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 22, 2022

In the second case, occurring from January to May 2020, a registered nurse, admitted to daily tampering of fentanyl vials and hydromorphone injectables wherein she removed the drugs from the vials replacing them with saline solution. See Sovah Non-Prosecution Agreement, Addendum A, Agreed Facts, ¶2. 4, 2022).

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 4, 2023

The CARES Act also provides for an administrative hearing process that may be utilized under certain conditions following the formal dispute resolution process. It may be a while before anyone seeks to utilize the processes covered by the draft guidance, but it is another commitment under OTC monograph reform checked off FDA’s to-do list.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Coding Q&A Podcast 2: Problem management credits; A/P notes for AWVs Drew Boxler ; Bill Dacey, MBA, MHA, CPC, CPC-I November 25th 2020 Podcast Coding expert Bill Dacey, principal of The Dacey Group, answers viewers questions in this second installment of our Coding Q&A podcast series. 'We'll

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

As we initially reported here , Texas enacted a law in June 2019 requiring manufacturers to submit two types of reports beginning in January 2020. A summary of these new state law developments is included below. The North Dakota law includes three reporting requirements for drug manufacturers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020. Intervention/Instrument: Disability status was identified from documented diagnostic codes from January 2018 to December 2019, and COVID-19 diagnosis was captured between April 2020 and December 2022.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. Reaffirmed October 17, 2020 Riviello JJ Jr, Ashwal S, Hirtz D, et al; American Academy of Neurology Subcommittee; Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Race and the Utilization of Security Responses in a Hospital Setting. link] November 17, 2020. Orlando, FL.

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

2020, pemcincinnati.com/blog/redflags-syncope/. . “Canadian Cardiovascular Society and Canadian Pediatric Cardiology Association position statement on the approach to syncope in the pediatric patient.” ” Canadian Journal of Cardiology 33.2 2017): 189-198. Sobolewski, Brad. It’s Not the Heart? PEMBlog, 8 Feb.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Adults aged 65 years and older with T2DM enrolled in a national Medicare Advantage plan Setting or Dataset: Enrollment and claims data (2016-2020) Measures: The dependent variable was DCSI. Results: We included 49,843 individuals in model 1.

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Vascular Physician

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The TCAR procedure also utilizes a special tool that reverses the blood flow that usually goes from the aorta to carotid and to the brain. Accessed March 10, 2020. In both techniques, a metal umbrella-like stent opens up to keep blood flowing through the artery. European Journal of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery. 2019;58:e638.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Pearls: In 2020, American Indian and Alaska Native (Indigenous) communities experienced the highest drug overdose mortality rate of any racial or ethnic group, also surpassing rates among the non-Hispanic white population. Epub 2020 Dec 3. Academic Psychiatry , 45 (1), 78–83. link] Castillo, E. DeBonis, K. Braslow, J. 2020.108218.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

As an aside, we have found this inconsistency between which accelerated approval therapies are saddled with this sentence to be a paradoxical FDA policy as there is but a single standard for surrogate endpoints to be utilized for purposes of every Accelerated Approval (i.e., be “reasonably likely to predict” ultimate clinical benefit).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. I think it was Bob Lee’s 2020 JAGS paper. And a lot of it centers around communication in that acute care setting. Eric: Kelly?

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

First, section 90006 imposes a moratorium on HHS’s implementation of an HHS OIG final rule, published on November 30, 2020, which amends the Federal health care program antikickback statute safe harbors as they apply to drug rebates paid to Medicare Part D plans and Medicaid Managed Care plans (or their PBMs).

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: VA people will know what that is. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020. And then you have a problem with missing data always based on utilization patterns and trying to identify what that might look like.

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 21, 2023

Further, FDA has utilized a variety of strategies to call attention to safety issues through Dear Doctor letters or other forms of communication, even if directing changes to labeling is difficult. Most OTC drugs, particularly drugs that have been around for a while, are primarily marketed pursuant to OTC monographs.

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

For 10 high-cost single source covered outpatient drugs selected annually by CMS, manufacturers would be required to respond to a so-called “price verification survey” by providing not only clinical and utilization information about the drug, but also costs of production, distribution, research, and marketing; revenue and profit; and ex-U.S.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Would it have changed potentially utilization rates like hospice utilization?

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

From 2019 to 2020, the rate of firearm related deaths among children increased by 30%. Studies demonstrate that utilizing one of these storage methods can reduce the suicide and unintentional gun deaths in children by up to 54%. [ Kristen ] Great question. Each year, 3200 children die from firearm-related injuries.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Eric 14:24 So it’s hard to improve resource utilization for these people where some of them didn’t sound like the sickest of people admitting them to the hospital, but all had some type of serious illness. We are going to have healthcare utilization data as well.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Or maybe we will see an increased utilization of and reliance on registries and other real-world evidence to gather this information in the post-market setting. Another question is the impact on rare disease drug development, where broader populations are small and there may be limited knowledge about differential impacts of disease.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

METHOD The cross-sectional study was conducted on family physicians and family health staff working in primary care family health centers in Üsküdar district of Istanbul with a population of 520,771 between 25-29 December 2020 [4]. Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures. BMC Fam Pract.

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