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Resident Voices: Key Findings from Journal Club Surveys [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

The new format paired each resident with one focal research faculty and one focal faculty advisor, and enabled them to select articles that align with their individual interests. Study Design and Analysis We conducted a retrospective survey distributed electronically and securely among the graduating class of residents.

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Bipolar Depression Drives Higher Costs in Old Age

Physician's Weekly

They implemented the study across 4 psychiatry departments in Madrid, Spain, involving individuals aged over 60 years who accessed inpatient or outpatient psychiatric services and were diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), recurrent depressive disorder, bipolar depression, or dysthymia. The average age was 70.05

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The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?

A Country Doctor Writes

Electronic medical record notes are simply way too cumbersome, no matter in what order the segments are displayed, to be of much use if we quickly want to check what happened in the last few office visits before entering the exam room. We need something better – aSOAP ! It should follow logic.

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Research Gaps in Life Participation Support in CKD

Physician's Weekly

Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and narrative synthesis. The results showed that 23 studies were identified evaluating interventions aimed at supporting life participation in individuals with CKD. None of the studies focused on life participation as a primary outcome.

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Altered Pain Processing in Knee Osteoarthritis

Physician's Weekly

Very low-certainty evidence indicated reduced local CPM efficiency in individuals with KOA compared to controls, with a moderate effect size (556 patients and 379 controls; SMD = -0.55 [-0.86 to 0.51]; P = 0.03]. Investigators concluded that individuals with KOA exhibited impaired CPM and enhanced TSP. to -0.24]; P = 0.00].

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Persistent Neurological Symptoms After COVID-19

Physician's Weekly

Studies were included if they assessed the prevalence of long-term neurological symptoms in individuals who had recovered from COVID-19 and had a follow-up duration of at least 6 months.

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Extended duration of use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: Systematic review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Global Health electronic databases. Study selection The search identified articles published between January 2000 and June 2023 on long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods and extended duration of use. Other adverse events were infrequent.