Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care. Dataset: We used data routinely collected through the CPSMP between December 2017 and May 2023.

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Management Utilities Referral Individual 130

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. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100

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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Patient-Centered Medical Utilities Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. Mixed models were used for analysis.

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical Illness 130

Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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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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Utilities Healthcare Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: We analyzed eleven interviews with primary care providers recruited from ABFM diplomates who completed a recertification exam in 2023. Instrument: Interviews were semi-structured and conducted in Summer 2023. Results: Participants conceptualized professionalism as individualized and highly focused on patient care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Eligible patients were aged ≥65 years. Patients were ineligible if unable to see or hear, not English or Spanish speaking, or if they had a DCA in the past 12 months with an unimpaired or impaired result. RESULTS There were 16,708 eligible encounters during the 12-month study period (June 2022-May 2023).

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: We explored how to design a system to provide near real-time feedback on context and impacts to inform health system innovations; and how to operationalize data collection across diverse patient populations and providers. Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — On September 6, 2023, FDA announced its latest efforts to modernize the 510(k) process, outlining FDA’s latest improvements to strengthen the 510(k) Program and announcing release of three draft guidance documents. In a statement released at the time, CDRH Director Jeffrey Shuren, M.D.,

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Medical Electronics Manufacturing Utilities 64

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician. Guided by the Andersen model of health care utilization, we identified predisposing, enabling, need, and structural community characteristics from public data sources.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Navigating the complexities of insurance and healthcare costs can be overwhelming for patients. Utilizing in-network providers ensures that you receive the maximum coverage and reduces your out-of-pocket expenses. In this blog, we will provide you with practical tips to help you navigate insurance and healthcare costs effectively.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients.

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Primary Care Electronics Provider Management 130

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Valentine will become the firm’s newest Director beginning on January 1, 2023. James has been involved with the approval of many new molecular entities, often for serious and rare diseases, several which utilized the accelerated approval pathway (see examples discussed here and here ).

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Utilities Patients 105

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

For many of us, the emergence of medical scribes, both in-person and remote, provided a valuable solution, offloading documentation and allowing us to have more focused patient interactions. At its core, the technology utilizes sophisticated speech recognition to transcribe a conversation in the exam room or at the bedside. The result?

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Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

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 link] Accessed February 2023. References National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD).

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Diagnose Screening Diagnosis Families 52

FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When FDA published the fiscal years (FY) 2023-2027 goals letter at the end of August, making known their commitments and planned initiatives for the coming years, we were both excited by many of the announcements, while recognizing the real success will come from how the Agency implements them.

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Patient-Centered Manufacturing Clinic Provider 52

FDA Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. Patients that use ESD undergo continuous 24/7 monitoring. Patients are continually monitored for safety. percent of examples.

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Medical Clinic Patients IT 111

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Moreover, center patients not only in discussions about individual decision-making but in constructing and drawing meaning from the research. While there indubitably exists a need to advance scholarship and theory, we must also ground ourselves in the day-to-day actions that can bring comfort and kindness to our patients.

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Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered 52

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” and remote or wearable patient monitoring devices (e.g.,

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Medical Patients Healthcare Electronics 45

PEMBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This nuclear medicine scan utilizes a radioactive tracer that is taken up by the gastric mucosa in Meckel’s diverticulum, thereby helping to identify its presence. Recognizing the characteristic features and understanding the differential diagnosis is crucial in managing patients with lower gastrointestinal bleeding. J R Soc Med.

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Diagnosis Complication Consulting Management 64

FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2023

This blog provides an update on the DHT-related PDUFA VII goals that were targeted for completion in the first two quarters of FDA’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2023, including: By the end of Q2 FY 2023, FDA will establish a DHT framework document to guide the use of DHT-derived data in regulatory decision-makings for drugs and biological products.

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Patient-Centered Clinic Medical Utilities 52

FDA Law Blog

JULY 17, 2022

An example of such a drug is a single-use vial of an injectable cancer drug that is dosed based upon weight, and therefore might not be entirely used for a lighter weight patient. On July 8, as part of its annual physician fee schedule update for 2023, CMS issued a proposed regulation to implement the new refund.

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Manufacturing Utilities Government Provider 52

FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In fact, as of November 2023, the CMS’s Standards and Certification’s (S&C’s) Quality, Certification and Oversight Reports (QCOR) CLIA Laboratory Lookup Database shows 17,206 CLIA-certified laboratories. FDA-2023-N-2177, at 21 (Oct. 4, 2023) [hereinafter PRIA], [link]. of 510(k) decisions, respectively. [13] 4] PRIA at 28.

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IT Medical Patient-Centered Provider 69

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Palliative medicine focuses on quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Historically, palliative care has been predominantly provided in the inpatient setting, but there is a growing awareness that patients may also benefit from outpatient care. Results The patients in the SMC had a mean age of 71.

Patients 130

Patients Diagnosis Patient-Centered Utilities 130

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

After issuing an Order to Show Cause and Immediate Suspension of Registration in September 2022, and an administrative hearing in March 2023, DEA adopted the hearing Administrative Law Judge’s (“ALJ’s”) Recommended Decision to revoke Coconut Grove’s registration based on the public interest factors of 21 U.S.C. 72,694, 72,703 (Dec.

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Insurance Patients Utilities Chronic Condition 52

FDA Law Blog

APRIL 23, 2023

This Draft Guidance focuses on the use of patient-level data from other clinical trials or from RWD sources. The goal is to select similar patients in the treatment and external control groups. The Draft Guidance also states that sponsors must include in their marketing applications relevant patient-level data for both arms.

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Patient-Centered Clinic Patients Provider 49

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Standard of care for withdrawal involves utilization of the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol revised (CIWA-Ar), a subjective score, and reflexive use of benzodiazepines despite notable associated risks and harms (hypotension, coma, respiratory depression). Intervention/Instrument: N/A. days; PB median 5.8 [IQR

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Hospital Utilities Patients Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

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Patients Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In Ontario, Canada, pharmacists were given authority to deliver service for 19 MAs as of October 1, 2023. Setting: Ontario, Canada Study Design and Analysis: This study used linked health administrative data, including pharmacist billing for MA services, patient demographics, and physician and hospital billing data, collected for 15.4

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Primary Care Management Utilities Vaccination 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

Utilization and variation of QMT was examined from quarter 1 (Q1) 2021 to Q2 2023. Utilization and variation of QMT was examined from quarter 1 (Q1) 2021 to Q2 2023. The median age of 43,558 patients admitted at 61 hospitals was 74 years; 38 percent belonged to racial and ethnic minorities and 51 percent were women.

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Medical Hospital Utilities Community 52

PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Our role as providers is to identify the patients who have a life-threatening etiology to their syncope. History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. A review of red-flag symptoms can be found in the linked PEMBlog post. 2017): 189-198.

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Utilities Screening Physicals Medical 97

FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

By Dara Katcher Levy — A win for patient access! Prescription drug and medical device Pre-Approval Information Exchange (PIE) now has specific legal protection allowing for sponsors to proactively communicate to payors certain information about products in development to help expedite patient access upon product approval.

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Patients Provider IT Utilities 64

PEMBlog

MAY 24, 2023

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. Emerg Med Clin North Am. 2009.07.003.

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Management Patient-Centered Physicals Finance 55