A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 29, 2025

Glenda Cyr has been my patient for many years. He works at the Catholic hospital across the city from the rival, bigger, Cityside hospital. He works at the Catholic hospital across the city from the rival, bigger, Cityside hospital. She turned out to have abscesses threatening several of her vital organs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Sickle cell disease (SCD) was identified as one of our hospital's most common causes of readmission. We noted that a small number of patients are readmitted multiple times. This indicates poor quality of life (QOL) for SCD patients and a high financial burden on the healthcare system. The average age was 32.2 ± 14.6,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare research involving patient medical data is often delayed by lengthy approval processes. The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals. Data underwent quality assessment to ensure reliability of subsequent analyses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

COVID-19's impact surpasses previous pandemics, disrupting medical education by delaying clinical rotations and necessitating a rapid transition to telemedicine due to isolation and PPE shortages. Objective: To understand COVID-19's impact on physicians-in-training and their preparedness and well-being amidst clinical and lifestyle changes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Hospice aims to manage a patient’s symptoms as they near end of life. While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area. metropolitan area.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, the factors influencing the dynamics of adherence among young Chinese patients with hypertension remain unclear. Setting or Dataset general outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Chengdu. Setting or Dataset general outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Chengdu.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Caring for patients with multiple chronic conditions requires identifying those at risk, clear communication, and coordinated care to improve outcomes. Many of these patients are clinically complex and receive care from multiple professionals—which creates unique management hurdles.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 10, 2025

June 10, 2025) — Maria Ansari, MD, FACC , co-CEO of The Permanente Federation at Kaiser Permanente, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2025. The result is high-quality, high-value care within an integrated system — improving lives and shaping the future of health care.”

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With larger metropolitan hospitals struggling to manage the limited capacity of ICU beds, timely patient transfer isn’t always an available option, and even when it is an option, patients and their families in the community have an expectation that they can stay local for care. Our answer: tele-critical care.

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Sound Physicians

JUNE 25, 2025

Many rural hospitals offer higher base salaries, a lower cost of living, and incentives like loan repayment programs. In hospital medicine, these shifts may follow a block schedule to support continuity of care, while emergency medicine often allows for more flexible, intermittent scheduling.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: The structured questionnaire covered various aspects of primary care practice, including the scope of clinical learners, specialties offered, onsite services, telehealth, EMR data querying, patient advisory groups, and IRB affiliation. Intervention/Instrument: N/A.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 23, 2025

The researchers found that none of the patients with VM showed signs of CEH, VEH, or increased perilymphatic enhancement (PLE). Only two patients had normal CEH, one had normal VEH, and six had equal PLE in both ears in the MD group. Anja Bernaerts, M.D., Anja Bernaerts, M.D.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, poor treatment compliance among thalassemia patients remains a challenge, leading to less successful outcomes and negative perceptions of the disease. The study aimed to explore the lived experiences of thalassemia patients in Eastern India and examined how social relationships impacted treatment adherence.

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient. Such delays can compromise patient care by increasing mortality, medical errors and length of stay. . Dr. Baskin says that wasn’t a hardship.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Patients Education 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

Caifeng Li, from Tianjin Medical University General Hospital in China, and colleagues examined whether statins can improve clinical outcomes in patients with sepsis in a retrospective cohort study using data from the Medical Information Mart in Intensive Care–IV database. and 0.50, respectively). All rights reserved.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While Ghana has made rigorous efforts to expand psychiatric care for hard-to-reach communities, there is limited knowledge about the experiences of the country’s psychiatrists regarding their current clinical approaches and the barriers they face in delivering care. Conclusions.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. Yet this expansion has come with a significant administrative burden, particularly that of clinical documentation. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment. The result?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes. How about having a teledentist consultation?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

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. The inverse also holds true An LR of 0.5

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 24, 2023

[link] In this episode of WDx, Dr Rebecca Berger joins Kara, Jane, & Sharmin to discuss a clinical unknown. Dr. Rebecca Berger Rebecca is an academic hospitalist and assistant professor of medicine at Weil Cornell Medicine and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Download CPSolvers App here

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Clinic Medical Student Internal Medicine Hospital 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Stephanie Sherman is a hospitalist and residency associate program director at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) who rounds at Ben Taub General Hospital and Houston’s VA hospital. She went to medical school at the University of Michigan and did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Clinic Diagnosis Complication Internal Medicine 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 18, 2025

The primary outcome was the time from first to last epinephrine dose, whether given before arrival, in the ED, or during hospitalization. Patients were stratified by initial severity: No respiratory or cardiovascular involvement Respiratory involvement only Cardiovascular involvement Key Findings Overall 4.7 percent after 4 hours.

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Patients Hospital Provider Clinic 95

Sound Physicians

JUNE 16, 2025

A lack of clear communication among clinicians can leave patients feeling uneasy and uncertain. Integrating your emergency and hospital medicine programs can make a huge difference in mitigating messy handoffs. Want to take a deeper dive into integrated care? Read the full webinar recap. Or watch the on-demand webinar.

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Telemedicine Hospital Integrated Care Clinic 52

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? Does the rebound effect really exist?

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Diabetes Patients Medical DO 130

Sound Physicians

JUNE 9, 2025

This post is a summary of that discussion. A patient’s length of stay (LOS) in the hospital impacts so many factors, from reimbursement rates to health outcomes, which is why hospitals and health systems have made it their top priority. So, what’s the best strategy to help reduce length of stay (LOS)?

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Telemedicine Hospital Patient-Centered Clinic 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Eligible patients were aged 6 years or older, with a confirmed clinical and genetic diagnosis of RDEB, and at least two chronic wounds. Eleven patients were enrolled, with 43 randomized wound pairs. There were no serious treatment-related adverse events reported. The patent for prademagene zamikeracel is licensed to Abeona.

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Patients Diagnosis Clinic Hospital 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: An AI clinical deterioration model-enabled intervention implemented at a large academic medical center in 2021 was recently reported to have decreased the absolute risk of care escalations among inpatients by 10.4% Conclusions: Both physicians and nurses generally concurred with the tool’s identification of high-risk patients.

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Clinic Patient-Centered Patients Hospital 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

[link] CPS team Stephenie Le, Dan Minter, and Rabih Geha present a clinical unknown case to Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh. Schema Download CPSolvers App here Patreon website Dr. Lekshmi Santhosh Dr. Santhosh is Assistant Professor at UCSF in the Divisions of Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine and Hospital Medicine.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Large language models will soon find their way in to everyday clinical settings , simply because the global shortage of healthcare personnel is becoming dire and AI will lend a hand with tasks that do not require skilled medical professionals. ” M-LLM (Translating for Patient): “¿Puede señalar dónde le duele?”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 8, 2019

This summer, he will start a fellowship in academic hospital medicine at UCSF focusing on medical education, point of care ultrasound, and improving the care of hospitalized patients with limited English proficiency. She completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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NPR Health - Shots

AUGUST 29, 2022

Many hospitals and health care clinics in the U.S. are affiliated with the Catholic Church, which means religious directives might limit the types of contraception they can offer.

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Hospital Complication Patients Clinic 84

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 18, 2023

She obtained her medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed internal medicine residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She then completed both her Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Clinic Internal Medicine Patient-Centered Healthcare 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 23, 2021

She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center, the largest safety-net hospital in New England. Following residency, she completed a research fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Global Women’s Health and earned a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Clinic DO Family Medicine Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The I-Score is a new electronic patient-reported outcome measure (ePROM) of ART adherence barriers to be used in HIV care. Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of administering the I-Score on a patient portal. Setting: A large hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada.

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