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Primary care severe asthma registry project-phase 1: e-Delphi results for registry entry and indices of clinician behaviour [Pulmonary and critical care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: A severe asthma registry in primary care is needed to determine the population prevalence and best practices in the real world. Objective: To establish consensus on a) a definition of severe asthma, b) criteria for severe asthma registry entry and c)indices of clinician behaviour.

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Passive Digital Marker Can Identify Childhood Asthma Risk

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is feasible to use electronic health record (EHR) data in the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) to accurately predict childhood asthma risk, according to a study published in the June issue of eClinicalMedicine. percent) had a confirmed asthma diagnosis after age 4 years.

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A Closer Look - EMR Review of Coach McLungsSM; Is Shared Decision Making Taking Place? [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Asthma is a prevalent chronic disease that is difficult to manage. Studies have shown that effective communication between the patient and provider, or shared decision making (SDM), is associated with improved outcomes for asthma patients. Intervention/Instrument: Chart review. 002; OR [95%CI] 2.43 [1.356, 4.356]).

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Many of the children you will evaluate during your shift are among the estimated 10 million United States (US) ED visits made by children with asthma, bronchiolitis, and croup, the most common pediatric respiratory conditions presenting to acute care settings.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. I’m a family physician by training. million members and patients.

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Intellectual Disability (ID) and Chronic Conditions Burden among Adults : Insights from Harmonized Electronic Health Records [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Compare burden of chronic diseases for adults with and without ID using electronic health records (EHRs)from 3 learning health systems serving underrepresented groups. Studies on adults with ID are scarce, and understanding chronic disease burden is important.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

CDC vaccine safety officer Robert Chen built on VAERS to create the Vaccine Safety Datalink, which looks for evidence of vaccine harms in electronic health records. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente. centers study rare vaccine reactions.