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Using Machine Learning to advance primary care: an example of predictive modeling of hypertension risk to impact outcomes [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future. The model was trained on 80% of the data and validated on 20% of the data.

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Rare Diseases: Pathways to accelerating diagnoses 

Myriad Genetics

The NORD report notes: “Genetic testing…is being increasingly utilized to help diagnose rare diseases, the majority of which are genetic in origin. Knowing More and more, doctors, researchers, and families are turning to technologies like AI and even Google to help them decode health symptoms and get on the road to solutions and treatments.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

The possible complications were communicated so that the patient could make an informed decision and proceed with treatment. I utilized 2CC of the mineralized freeze-dried allograft, particle size 500um to 1000um. I chose to utilize a zirconia abutment and selected shade 20 used for midrange shades in the VITA shade guide, i.e. A2.

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Versatility in the CEREC® World Today

CDOCS

& Fluo glaze was utilized, and the stains were shade 1 for gingival warmth, shade I 2 for translucency and shade Creme for the framing (Figure 5).</span></p> She hated her smile, and it had gotten to the point where she was just overwhelmed by the amount of appointments and the cost.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

We put a couple extra things in place to really try to reschedule appointments, and this was telehealth. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. Getting the appointments for outpatient palliative care was a challenge, it sounded like. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

It used to be a much more complicated model. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. As a nurse, how challenging would it be to do eight hours of training and jump into this complicated world? David: We used the VA specific care assessment needs score, which- Eric: Oh, the CAN score.