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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models. This study offers insight into the practice patterns of boutique clinic primary care physicians, as well as the estimated public costs of this business model in Ontario. Study Design and Analysis.

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Cervical Cancer Screening Differences Between Black and White Women: An Examination of HPV and Pap Test Utilization. [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures Responses to questions about 1) receiving an HPV test, 2) receiving a Pap test, 3) receiving co-testing (both HPV and Pap test), and 4) being told by the clinic what kind of screening test was administered. These factors will be discussed in the presentation. and 94.9%, respectively, with no significant difference.

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Researchers Propose Solutions to Improve GLP-1 RA Access

Physician's Weekly

Cost-sharing and education may improve access to GLP-1 therapies for obesity, but systemic barriers remain, requiring broader policy and clinical reforms. Other Persistent Barriers & Potential Solutions In another article not presented at the meeting, Stephanie W. They published their insights in Nature Medicine.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Below is a summary of the findings published in that review, which includes structural and operational approaches as well as interventions for clinical encounters. Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake.

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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

The survey presented two patient vignettes and analyzed the respondents’ preferred treatment choices for patients with cardiac risk, use of cardioprotective strategies, post-treatment surveillance, and willingness to participate in clinical trials. 32% would routinely order a post-treatment echocardiogram.

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

I’m the Vice Chairman of Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic and the co-director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research. And I’m here today to talk about giant cell arteritis in clinical practice. So always important to consider the clinical context and patient symptoms there. Hello everyone.

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What Pharma Executives Secretly Think About the Future (But Won’t Admit Publicly)

The Medical Futurist

Some 3D printed drugs made strides some years ago by getting FDA approvals and undergoing clinical trials. AI models, such as those developed by Benevolent AI , can analyse significant amounts of datasets from scientific literature, clinical records and chemical databases in a more time efficient manner than humans can.