Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S.

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Medical Staff Medical Patients Healthcare 52

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. The group discussed policy shifts and potential implications for graduate medical education and health equity. Outcomes are pending but the sponsors will report on the program as fellows begin to graduate, and track practice data as well.

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

FDA Law

MARCH 17, 2022

Houck — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a voluntary practice guideline on opioid prescribing for clinicians treating chronic pain five years ago. (We We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed.

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Patient-Centered Clinical Practice Patients Individual 75

FDA Law

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. We blogged on the 2016 guideline here in March 2016, and the proposed guideline here on March 18th). Clinicians should consider toxicology results as “potentially useful data” along with other clinical information. RR-3):1–95.

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Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. And you wrote, actually, a beautiful GeriPal blog about it a while ago. Bragging rights.

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Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137