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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

Unless FDA provides timely responses to pre-submissions, laboratories (and current IVD manufacturers) will not be able to submit applications that address FDA’s expectations. Thus, it is wholly unrealistic for the Third-Party Review Program to provide any meaningful reduction in Agency workload. Certain points are indisputable.

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Key Bills in the 2025 Legislative Session AAFP is Watching Closely

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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

GeriPal

I feel like I recognize it when I see it, but I struggle to give a clear definition or provide effective ways to address it. He’s chair of the department of Palliative Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine at MD Anderson Cancer center. But the patient would say, well, but it still hurts, though. Come down here.

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Black/African American Caregivers of Older Adults Living with Dementia: Fayron Epps and Karen Moss

GeriPal

Feyron has centered her work in Black/African American faith communities and churches – a program she titled Alter. Karen has a Cambia Sojourns award to pilot an intervention in which Black/African American former caregivers are trained to provide peer support to current caregivers (Peer2Care). Why this focus? Alex: Yeah, right.

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