Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

Barriers to implementing findings from lung cancer screening trials into typical clinical practice include the nonrepresentative nature of research participants (younger, healthier, and less racially and geographically diverse than the target populations) and the superior infrastructure and clinical support available to them.

Primary Care 59

Primary Care Screening Family Physician Family Medicine 59

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: We previously reported on the effectiveness of PINCER at reducing hazardous prescribing in primary care in a cluster randomised trial, and the subsequent roll out of the intervention in one region of England; PINCER has now been rolled out nationally to over 2,800 general practices in England.

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GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. But in my practice it’s usually from another oncologist, typically a medical oncologist.

Patient-Centered 102

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT 102

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 17, 2022

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. On February 10th, the agency published a comprehensive proposal to update the guideline. 7,838 (Feb.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Thats my main take-home point after learning from our three guests today when talking about trauma-informed care, an approach that highlights key principles including safety, trustworthiness, peer support, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural sensitivity. She is a guest host and she’s a palliative care social worker.

IT 66

IT Patient-Centered Individual Screening 66

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. But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

JUNE 27, 2024

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. The question I would ask is, how helpful is that in our clinical practice? ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. And so bathe is an acronym.

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Illness IT Diagnosis Patient-Centered 129

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain — United States, 2022. Expected clinical benefits should be weighed against risks before beginning therapy. Duration should be individualized based on the specific patient’s clinical circumstances. Dowell D, Ragan KR, Jones CM, Baldwin GT, Chou R.,

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Patients Patient-Centered ER Individual 52

GeriPal

MAY 25, 2023

And, you know, I really leaned in from my perspective as a primary care geriatrician to hearing from what my patients and their family caregivers are asking me for and asking me about, and they’re asking me about how they can prepare. Hillary: I certainly agree lots to think about. Hillary or Sarah. Thoughts on that.

Community 95

Community IT Patient-Centered Primary Care 95

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” And great song choice: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell.

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary One marker of the distance we’ve traveled in palliative care is the blossoming evidence base for the field. We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

This study explored nursing home organizational factors and staff perceptions that are associated with the variation in care for residents with advanced dementia. Now when I say variation, I’m not talking about small little clinically questionable variations. Joan: A lot of my work comes out of my clinical practice.

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Families Family 60

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. And in addition, my work in palliative care, I also am a clinical ethicist. An increasing number of federal leaders have a track record of endorsing such products.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. In the primary care practices that received the advance care planning intervention, rates of advance care planning were higher (about double). Eric 06:26 Great.

Primary Care 79

Primary Care IT Clinic Patient-Centered 79

GeriPal

JUNE 6, 2024

Sharon Bober, clinical psychologist at DFCI, notes that clinicians can get caught in an anxiety cycle, in which they are afraid to ask, don’t ask, then have increased anxiety about not asking. And it actually came up during a clinical encounter that I had. So most of us in primary care, it’s probably even worse.

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Illness IT Physicals Patients 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

The agency's budget was zeroed out by the House of Representatives and narrowly restored by the Senate in 1995 after a 21 percent cut and a name change to emphasize that its mission would be to produce evidence to inform policy, rather than attempt to actively shape policy. Ironically, the need for AHRQ's work has never been greater.

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Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Illness 52