Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

At 30 days, mortality was 1.0%, Emergency Department (ED) visits were 6.9%, hospitalization was 6.6%, and NH admission was 4.0%. Most individuals retained functional independence for up to 6 months following a community-based CGA. The HRQoL improved significantly at both 30 and 180 days [F (2,542) = 13.8, P < 0.001, η 2   = 0.5].

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 30, 2025

MONDAY, June 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a clinical report issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online June 23 in Pediatrics , guidance is provided for the pediatrician regarding the genetic evaluation of developmental delay/intellectual disability. Rodan, M.D., Rodan, M.D.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The primary aims of this study are to (1) Explore the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of clinical staff who are participating in healthcare activities that address health inequities, and (2) Develop recommendations for healthcare institutions engaging in HE work to minimize harms and maximize benefits to clinical staff.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Encourage Healthy Eating Through Vouchers: Many clinics and systems have voucher programs in place to help supplement food for patients.

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Louisville Lectures

DECEMBER 20, 2019

She then presents the pathophysiology and epidemiology, screening, and clinical manifestations. She completed medical school at Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, her residency at Saint Vincent Hospital, and her fellowship at the University of Michigan. Her clinical expertise is in Nephrology.

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Louisville Lectures

MARCH 23, 2018

Dr. Brown first lists Life's Simple 7 approach to prevention of cardiovascular disease as well as how to apply appropriate screening methods for LS7 in clinic patients. Although a new faculty member, she recently won the Clinical Faculty Teaching Award from the residents. Her faculty profile can be found here.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Siyuan Yan, from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and colleagues developed PanDerm, which was pretrained through self-supervised learning on more than 2 million real-world skin disease images from 11 clinical institutions across four imaging modalities. percent across 128 skin conditions on clinical photographs.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

There is robust data regarding the importance of patient connection and engagement in the hospital and clinic setting. Many of us are taught in medical school and residency the importance of patient communication on improving patient satisfaction scores, quality metrics, and professional fulfillment.

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological malignancy in the United States yet current guidelines do not recommend screening for endometrial cancer for individuals already at high endometrial cancer risk, such as those with Lynch syndrome.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

Bridges oversees coordination of national clinical quality care programs across Kaiser Permanente for its 12.6 Permanente Medical Groups, Kaiser Foundation Health Plans, and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals together comprise Kaiser Permanente. million members. Dr. Bridges joined SCPMG in 2008. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

“In addition, despite practice guidelines recommending post-anthracycline echocar­diograms in adults receiving more than 250 mg/m2 of doxorubicin, only a minority of providers report obtain­ing routine screening echocardiograms after comple­tion of anthracycline-based chemotherapy regimen with a cumulative dose of 300 mg/m2,” they added.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

The goal is to support clinical trials and bring in another $50 million in private investment to help ibogaine win approval from the U.S. The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. Greg Abbott signed a bill last week approving $50 million in state funds for ibogaine research, The New York Times reported.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2016, The Guardian reported that a blind woman suffering from this disease was fitted with the implant labelled “bionic eye” in the UK as part of a trial at the Oxford Eye Hospital. The 80-year-old Ray Flynn lost his central vision entirely, but with the help of the retinal implant, he could make out shapes on the computer screen.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

“The current absence of appendiceal cancer prevention and screening methods emphasizes the importance of efforts to support earlier detection in a rare cancer where clinical trials have been historically very limited,” the authors write. Two authors disclosed ties to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

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The Physicians Foundation

AUGUST 15, 2024

Founder and CEO of Cherry Hill Free Clinic (CHFC), Chief Medical Officer at Camden Coalition and Medical Director for Community Health at Virtua Health, as the recipient of the Dr. Buz Cooper Award for Addressing Drivers of Health. “The Jubril Oyeyemi, M.D., president of The Physicians Foundation. Mirna Mohanraj, M.D. ,

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Also, when you do re-apply for a residency position, you will be considered a graduating medical student senior which is useful for those residency programs that automatically screen out graduates. Plus, I am constantly learning new things and staying up to date on clinical guidelines.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Screening for addressing hearing loss should be an integral part of what we do in geriatrics and palliative care, but it often is either a passing thought or completely ignored. I’m guessing not.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

In this episode, we tackle the clinical mischief of Parvovirus B19 , a common viral infection with a surprisingly wide range of manifestationsfrom the classic slapped cheek rash of erythema infectiosum to aplastic crises in children with hemolytic anemias and fetal hydrops in pregnant contacts. UpToDate , Jun. link] Edwards, Morven S.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

What you can do: Implement brief screening tools at registration to identify communication needs, sensory triggers, and calming strategies. Work with your hospitals care coordination team to create pathways for kids with recurrent ED visits. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. Pediatric Emergency Care. 2022;38(7):332-336.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Join us as we dive deeper into these studies and discuss the implications for clinical practice and patient care. And there’s so much work on, you know, you’ve got to take these medicines, you got to prevent this treat, that there isn’t that same sort of clinical momentum towards deprescribing. Ethical and practical.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

And we do this even when we know from years of growing evidence that the yield of these routinely ordered screening tests is very poor? Clinical utility of screening laboratory tests in pediatric psychiatric patients presenting to the emergency department for medical clearance. Health Aff (Millwood). 2015;34(5):812-818 Chun TH.

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GeriPal

JULY 27, 2023

Alex: And we have Cathy Alessi, who is a geriatrician, Director of the Geriatrics Research Education and Clinical Care Center at the VA, greater Los Angeles and Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Sleep is a focus of your academic and clinical career. ” That actually happens a lot in the sleep clinic. Cathy: Thank you.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. They’re due for cervical cancer screening, that they get that if they are due for a lab test, they get that. Outside of work.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I also love wearing my Medelita Kinetic Scrub Jacket especially since the hospitals and clinics are so cold. Ring Light Step up your selfie and Zoom game I've done a lot of zoom sessions this year, and my ring light has been a lifesaver for keeping me from looking too dark on the screen.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Urine drug screens do not test for all ingested substances, and the results of screens, though timely do not identify the toxindrome (sympathomimetic etc.) When hypoglycemia is corrected, this etiology has one of the most impressively fast improvements in clinical status.

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Have you ever found yourself in need of medical attention but overwhelmed by the myriad of clinics and healthcare options out there? This guide will help you understand the different types of clinics and services they offer, so you can make an informed decision about where to seek medical care. It's a common challenge many people face.

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The Health Policy Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2020

At current payment rates, implementation of Medicare for All could cause substantial financial difficulties for hospitals. fewer cancer screenings, more conservative prescribing of statins) or declining to cover some beneficial but very expensive therapies. Richard Young countered that "expansion of Medicare. health care bill.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

High social risk burden in adults with IBD drives emergency care use and medication gaps—spotlighting the urgent need for social screening in clinical practice.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. And they begin on today’s podcast with one clinical ask: everyone should be a generalist and a specialist. And just to name a few of the more of those from the book, this is on the clinical education and training chapter.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

After discussing screening options for substance use disorder, we go on to talk about both the treatments for it and the issues that arise. So, we are not screening for substance use in cancer care, so we don’t get good estimates among people with cancer, which is really how we would prefer to ask the question. Katie: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Analyzing the Health and Retirement Study, she found 60% of older adults screened positive for depression in the last year of life (related study here ). We saw that around 60% of people were screening positive for depression in the last month before death. Or is it that I’m just not screening? That’s a lot.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

“The simple and universally accessible waist-to-height measurement is useful in clinical and public health practice for liver disease screening, prevention, diagnosis and management globally.” ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay. All rights reserved.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can also listen to an audio interview with Alex and JAMA Deputy Editor Preeti Malani about this study and the other RCT of default palliative care for hospitalized older adults with noncancer serious illness published in the same issue. People had to be in the top 20th percentile of risk for being hospitalized or dying in the next year.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

The goal is to support clinical trials and bring in another $50 million in private investment to help ibogaine win approval from the U.S. The law directs Texas universities and hospitals to lead the research. Greg Abbott signed a bill last week approving $50 million in state funds for ibogaine research, The New York Times reported.

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