The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Sax is Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases and the HIV Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sax is also on the core faculty of the International AIDS Society – USA and the New England AIDS Education and Training Center.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

After searching 177 keywords using FOAMSearch, the top 50 FOAM websites on the (now defunct) Social Media Index, and seven additional PEM-focused blogs, we reviewed and quality assessed 441 blog posts on relevant topics. For each blog, we extracted information such as author names and date of publication. Happy learning!

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). The only more specific guideline I could find on semaglutide for weight loss is from NICE in the UK (September 2023). Stopping the medication leads to a rebound effect (½ – ⅔ weight regain after one year).

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FDA Law

MAY 3, 2021

Maintaining complete and accurate records with direct, ongoing oversight by management reduces risk of internal employee pilferage and maximizes potential for early detection should diversion occur. We will discuss these actions in more detail in later blog. 21 U.S.C. § We expect this trend to continue. 21 U.S.C. § 880(a)(2).

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. A light bulb went on for me as I had the exact same thought about 6 years ago when I began to think about leaving my job in an office owned by a hospital system. Martin says “There has to be a different way of doing things.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 14, 2020

As described by my friend Jack Penner elsewhere in this blog series, a core tenet of analytic reasoning involves interpretation of the pretest and posttest probabilities of a disease. Yet, managing uncertainty is the “name of the game” in diagnostic reasoning.

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FDA Law

MAY 3, 2021

Maintaining complete and accurate records with direct, ongoing oversight by management reduces risk of internal employee pilferage and maximizes potential for early detection should diversion occur. We will discuss these actions in more detail in later blog. 21 U.S.C. § We expect this trend to continue. 21 U.S.C. § 880(a)(2).

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 9, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Physicians Practice Physicians Practice June 2025 Volume 3 Issue 3 Physicians navigate challenging payer negotiations, sharing success stories of securing approvals for innovative, cost-effective treatments. The standard of care was hospital admission and surgical ablation of the obstruction to urine flow.

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Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Your healthcare team will also care for your wounds, change dressings, and ensure that your pain is managed appropriately. Most patients can expect to recover in the hospital for 1-2 days after surgery. Here, your blood pressure, heart rate, and neurological status will be carefully monitored.

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PEMBlog

MAY 20, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast , Brad Sobolewski discusses advanced imaging in pediatric emergency care with Dr. Jennifer Marin ( jennifer.marin@chp.edu ) from UPMC Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh. So here to help us navigate these complex decisions is Dr. Jennifer Marin.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. for bronchiolitis and 1.5%

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GeriPal

MARCH 14, 2024

We talk with them about the epidemiology, assessment, and management of dysphagia, including the role of modifying the consistency of food and liquids, feeding tubes, and the role of dysphagia rehabilitation like tongue and cough strengthening. Eric: And why is it more common in hospitalized adults? This is Eric Widera. Raele: I do.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 20, 2025

Reynolds Blog Article Innovative medical practices thrive by embracing change, prioritizing patient care and learning from setbacks to enhance success and satisfaction. This blog will discuss what early adopters do to implement innovative and exciting practices.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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FDA Law

JUNE 22, 2022

Moreover, the non-prosecution agreement resulting from the criminal investigation illustrates the extent of liability for hospitals and other health care entities and the importance to maintain robust controls and oversight over employee activities related to dispensing and administering controlled substances. 4, 2022).

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. As I’ve been blogging about this for a couple months now, I’m really trying to find anyone who loves these things. Well, yeah, Dr. McPherson, aside. Is that right?

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FDA Law

APRIL 11, 2022

Shapiro — One of the more complex areas of device regulation is the management of risks associated with malfunctions reported from the field. For instance, some products could remain in boxes in hospital inventory for an extended period. By Jeffrey K. Our focus, however, is on FDA’s criticism of Medtronic’s calculation of risk.

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You can find our preliminary blog post on the release of this guidance here , and our blog posts on the draft CDS guidances here and here. While the final guidance continues to borrow some IMDRF concepts, it no longer limits Non-Device CDS to software that informs clinical management (per the IMDRF guidelines).

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FDA Law

OCTOBER 10, 2023

She completed her residency and a fellowship in medical oncology/hematology at Brown University, Roger Williams Medical Center, and Brown University Affiliated Hospitals. We are thrilled that she is joining the firm and will add her expertise to our already exceptional Drug Development Team,” said JP Ellison, HP&M’s Managing Director.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

He completed his cardiology training at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1987. His experience at FDA and insights into the FDA approval process broaden and strengthen our capabilities in ways that will benefit our clients,” said JP Ellison, HP&M’s Managing Director.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

All this time, FDA has applied the requirement for HF data to a subset of device types that pose the highest usability‑relate risks, e.g. , software controlled devices, some hospital devices, and home use devices. Accordingly, only a subset of 510(k) submissions have historically included HF validation data.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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FDA Law

JANUARY 6, 2022

220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. Clinical treatment facility” is defined as “a medical setting, other than a hospital, that provides detoxification, risk reduction, outpatient treatment and care, residential treatment, or rehabilitation for substance use, pursuant to licensure or certification under State law.”

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.

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FDA Law

MARCH 6, 2025

Both guidance documents recommend data management practices for collecting data for use in developing, tuning, and testing an artificial intelligence model and making changes to said model. inpatient hospital, out-patient clinic), date range for the data, and location of the data collection sites (e.g., data acquisition device).

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FDA Law

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Houck One of the most significant issues facing hospitals and other facilities is the diversion of controlled substances meant for patients by physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other trusted healthcare employees. Click here to learn more about the Opioid & Abuse Management Congress.

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FDA Law

JUNE 10, 2024

Houck — It seems as though we cannot get through a week without hearing about controlled substance diversion by employees at another hospital or healthcare facility. DEA, Palomar Hospital Pays $250,000 for Diverting Fentanyl ( June 3, 2024 ). Palomar Health self-disclosed to DEA that one of its employees may have diverted the fentanyl.

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ABIM

JUNE 4, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. Highlights from the data so far show that 91% of respondents are clinically active, with a large majority practicing in hospital- or system-owned offices, private practice or academic faculty practice, and more than half in multi-specialty group practice.

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FDA Law

MAY 16, 2024

Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). The Kentucky hospital resolved the allegations for $4,394,600 and entered into a three-year MOA in November 2021.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings. SHEA is developing an infectious disease fellows healthcare epidemiology curriculum that will be published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology within the next few months. Learn More Subscribe to the ABIM Blog to stay on top of the latest news.

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FDA Law

MARCH 17, 2022

We blogged on the final 2016 guideline here on March 17, 2016). As explained more fully below, CDC concedes that states, insurers, pharmacies and pharmacy benefit managers have implemented laws, regulations and policies that have misapplied the 2016 guideline. 7,838 (Feb. 10, 2022); Dowell, Deborah, MD., Methodology.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. ” Somebody in the comments on their blog response said, “Did you check the date? We just had Harvey Chochinov on.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center. Dr. Kozhimannil discusses her work on rural maternity care and the lack of hospital-based obstetric services. Health Affairs Blog.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As Thor notes, capturing patient stories has face validity as positively impacting the patients who share their stories and have them documented, and for the clinicians who get to truely and deeply know their patients in far greater depth than “what brought you to the hospital?” Eric’s blog post on Dignity Therapy from 2011.

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