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Involvement in Health-Related Decision Making Among US Adults: Findings from the Health Information National Trends Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Involvement in health-related decisions is an important aspect of patient-centered care and a key component of shared decision making, a communication process by which patients and clinicians work together to make optimal health care decisions that align with what matters most to patient.

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Power to the Patient with Patient Generated Health Data

FDA Law Blog

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently partnered with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to host a two-day workshop to help advance the use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) to support improved clinical trials, medical device development, and regulatory science.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. And we invited Tamryn Gray from the Dana Farber joins us to ask insightful questions, including: What blood sugar range should we target for patients in the nursing home or hospice?

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A Final LDT Rule in April!? Will FDA be prepared?

FDA Law Blog

Even assuming a 3% reduction in the 510(k) workload from the Third-Party Review Program, under FDA’s projections OHT7 will need to be staffed to review nine times the current capacity of the entire Center. [21] 21] Calling this task impossible may be an understatement. Certain points are indisputable. 360(m)(a)(3). [16] 31, 2023), [link].

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

The bill also requires the Alabama Statewide Area Health Education Center Program Office to administer and verify the eligibility of physicians claiming the credit and mandates an evaluation of the program’s success during the 2030 fiscal year.

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Cachexia and Anorexia in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Eduardo Bruera

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

GeriPal

We were never going to have all the geriatricians that folks had forecast, whether it was 25,000 in 2025 or 30,000 in 2030, we were never going to get there. And he asked me questions like, “Why is this patient in bed? So now we have geriatric emergency departments. Why do they have a Foley catheter?”