article thumbnail

Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Community-based primary health care. learning), the use of guideline-based information in clinical practice, and subsequent patient health outcomes. After de-duplication, the selection process started with 4922 articles. Phase-2: We extracted descriptive statistics and tabulated them by type of outcome.

article thumbnail

Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

News & Notes: Spring 2025

ABIM

Read Full Article Close Article Important certification and MOC dates Enrollment and Registration Enrollment for all assessments is currently open. All these enhancements reflect ABIM’s commitment to listening to the physician community and making changes aimed at delivering a certification program that better meets their needs.

article thumbnail

Deprescribing Super Special III: Constance Fung, Emily McDonald, Amy Linsky, and Michelle Odden

GeriPal

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. Alex 00:36 And next we have Connie Fung, who I know well through the Beeson community and is a physician, researcher, professor of medicine at UCLA. Ethical and practical. Amy, welcome to GeriPal. Why is that?

article thumbnail

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

There’s an article about her in New York Times. We talk about diagnosis, et cetera, but it’s almost more of a community conversation. It’s going to be at home what community resources are out there. And this is, of course, an old and foundational idea about clinical practice. Anna 01:38 Yeah.

Screening 120
article thumbnail

Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

GeriPal

But estimates in community dwelling older adults are around 15%. But again, most of my clinical practice, until recent years, has been in the acute care setting. We’re going to have show notes with article links and other helpful resources. And so I always think of thickened liquids as a tool in our toolkit.

IT 125
article thumbnail

Improving Hospital Care for Older Adults through Acute Care for Elders (ACE Units): Kellie Flood and Stephanie Rogers

GeriPal

If you want to do a deeper dive in ACE units, check out some of the following articles: The original NEJM paper on ACE units from 1996. And so I thought let’s try to figure out actually how many they are, where they are they in academic centers and community centers. Are they community dwelling? Kellie: Yes.

Hospital 101