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Pain-Related Medication in Adults with Intellectual Disability: a systematic review [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Measures: Varied by study design; self/carer-report or electronic health records (EHR). Results: 21,603 articles identified. Following removal of duplicates 20,425 titles, 2,716 abstracts, 341 full-text articles were screened; 28 articles were eligible for inclusion.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. This week’s Journal has a very profound article about why healthcare has not evolved through its technology the way other sectors of society have. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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Effect of vitamin D supplementation on patients with low back pain; A systematic review [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Five electronic databases were searched: MEDLINE, CINAHL Cochrane Library, Web of science, SCOPUS and Google scholar Population Studied: We included all clinical trials examining the impact of vitamin D supplementation on LBP, regardless of the form, dosage, or route of administration, and featuring a placebo control group.

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Administrative burden in primary care: Critical review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE and CINAHL electronic databases for peer-reviewed original research articles, literature reviews, and commentaries that discuss administrative burden in the context of primary care or primary health care.

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Research Gaps in Life Participation Support in CKD

Physician's Weekly

They applied the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology; 5 electronic databases were searched, and additional sources were retrieved through backward chaining and 4 screeners independently reviewed titles and abstracts following initial inter-rater calibration and 2 researchers screened full texts and extracted data in duplicate.

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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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11 device policy essentials to keep your practice secure

Physician's Practice

Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article These essential strategies will enable your practice to safeguard digital assets and ensure compliance. Even innocuous habits— scrolling social media at the nurses’ station —can expose screens to wandering eyes or distract staff from patient care.