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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. were female, 74.4%

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

11, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). 6, 2023 ( DOJ Press Release ). Prescriptions Containing No Diagnosis or Intended Use Controlled substance prescriptions issued with a non-specific diagnosis or no diagnosis. Several weeks later, also based on ability to pay, the U.S. Complaint ¶ 60. Complaint ¶ 61.

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What are the signs of an eating disorder?

Vida Family Medicine

This week, February 27-March 5, 2023, marks National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Less than 6% of people who have an eating disorder are considered "underweight," and those who live in larger bodies are significantly less likely to be diagnosed and access proper treatment.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. But what happened when we finally… When he did get the diagnosis, it all fell into place. So that’s I think diagnoses. But it was also later on in the disease. Diane: Yeah.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. We’re not paid, as part of a DRG, for any particular diagnosis. There are some subtleties there.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

AHRQ research and guidelines played a key role in lowering the incidence of hospital-acquired infections — such as deadly blood infections caused by contaminated IV lines, which fell 28% from 2015 to 2023, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. making medical mistakes the nation’s third-leading cause of death.