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Diabetes related complications among Ethiopian Jews-Outcomes of a 10 years cohort study in Israel [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

The context: Immigrants, particularly those moving from lower to higher-income countries, often exhibit a heightened susceptibility to non-communicable diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes (T2D), which may manifest at an earlier age and present with different complications compared to the native population. 0.83, HR 0.70; 95% CI 0.65-0.76,

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How doctors can stop frivolous lawsuits before they start

KevinMD

All medical malpractice lawsuits stem from complications caused by medical interventions. Some complications are random errors of nature, which are unpreventable. Clinically, a medical error and an error of nature are indistinguishable. Others are systemic medical errors, caused by medical interventions gone astray.

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The Case of the Dropping Albumin

A Country Doctor Writes

Some were drained and some were inaccessible so she was on complicated regimens of intravenous antibiotics over several weeks at the big hospital and then at a rehab facility closer to home. Maine has a health information exchange where most hospital systems upload their clinic notes, imaging and laboratory results.

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Using Machine Learning to advance primary care: an example of predictive modeling of hypertension risk to impact outcomes [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future.

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WDx Clinical Unknown with Dr. Steph Sherman and the CPSolvers

The Clinical Problem Solvers

She spends her free time with her husband, fellow clinical problem solver Zaven Sargsyan, and their ever-more-mobile 8-month-old son. Clinical manifestations are varied, most typically presenting as a chronic pulmonary infection in immunocompetent individuals and either localized (e.g., assuming a female physician is a nurse).

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Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios By Jack Penner Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! Thank you for reading the latest post in our “Clinical Reasoning Corner”, where we discuss key clinical reasoning principles that shape how we think through cases. To do that, we need to rely on LRs.

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Ocular Toxicities of Targeted Cancer Therapies

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Clinical and imaging strategies for the assessment of the ocular side effects of systemic targeted anti-cancer therapies,” published in the April 2025 issue of the European Journal of Cancer by Michaels et al.