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Healthcare Quality Gaps in Chronic Pain Opioid Therapy

Physician's Weekly

They performed a cross-sectional patient survey targeting a random sample of 3,037 individuals with chronic arthrosis and/or back pain receiving long-term opioid therapy, all insured by a major German statutory health insurance (SHI) provider. Internal reliability was assessed using Cronbach’s α.

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Agentic AI In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

This trend is likely to equally impact healthcare leaders, and they will have to manage a new type of collaboration. We consider such collaborations in this article. They are quite specific in their abilities and, in healthcare, can serve as assistants who summarise the latest medical research and provide advice for additional reading.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To synthesize literature on pain-related medication in adults with ID and examine how it relates to MLTCs and polypharmacy and explore the views of adults with ID, caregivers and healthcare providers on pain medication use. Results: 21,603 articles identified.

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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. We provide many more services over the phone and virtually and we have a whole division for preventative care. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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From Numbers to Names: How Concierge Care is Redefining the Doctor-Patient Experience

Concierge Choice Physicians

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal interviewed physicians, attempting to make sense of the declining numbers. For medical professionals and those working in healthcare, the article was grim. As the Wall Street Journal article pointed out, patients don’t want to feel like just a number on a chart.

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Rural Hospital Futures in Colorado - Rapid Review and Environmental Scan for Policy Opportunities [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

PubMed search resulted in over 500 articles published in the past 10 years, of which 120 offered relevant information, resulting in an annotated bibliography of 45 articles and pertinent organizational reports. Rubrics and themes with potential policy implications in Colorado. Conclusions.

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Super-utilization interventions - failing or evolving in complex systems? A scoping literature review [Complexity science]

Annals of Family Medicine

Reducing healthcare costs per capita has focused on reducing Super-utilization using system transformation and care management approaches. Aims: The review aims to uncover essential frameworks and articles to investigate the mindset of super-utilization and its evolution and to illuminate current understandings and prevailing themes.

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