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Intensity of medication review activities in private and public clinics [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: One private primary care clinic and two clinics of a safety net hospital system that serves inner-city populations with significant socio-economic challenges. Population: Primary care visits by patients 55 years or older, taking 5 or more chronic medications, speaking English or Spanish during April through December 2023.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-150-9-200905050-00006 African American Study of Kidney Disease and Hypertension (AASK): AASK Clinical Trial in the NIDDK Repository: [link] Lewis J, Agodoa L, Cheek D, et al.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

This case was submitted by Dr. Andrea De Jesús Martínez Chief PEM Fellow at Baylor College of Medicine | Texas Children’s Hospital Instagram: @bcm_pemfellows Co-author: Benjamin Silva, MD, MPH The Case A 4-year-old male with no significant past medical history presents with headache and vomiting. 2023, doi:10.7759/cureus.33652

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s. “I would not recommend starting a GLP-1 in the hospital.” Nor should they be.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So you mentioned the burden of chronic multimorbidity and sort of flogging through the diabetes and the hypertension. Patient just got discharged from the hospital, just coming back from the skilled nursing facility. It’s been revised in 2023. I think it’s. And ideally at other times too.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year. So respiratory complications include apnea, secondary bacterial pneumonia, and pulmonary hypertension. Greater than 50 percent of kids under 12 months of age with pertussis could require hospitalization.

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