Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

Bill Easing Volunteer Rules for Retired Physicians Awaits Governor’s Signature What’s in the Bill: HB 346 streamlines volunteer opportunities for retired physicians at free health clinics is headed to the Governor for final approval. HB 45 – Medicaid Coverage for Cologuard Test What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g., Population Studied: Purposive sample of care team members (eg, physicians, social workers, diabetes educators, dietitians, community health workers).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Portable, Rapid, Low-Cost Testing According to the authors, the LIT system comprises a microprocessor-controlled device that utilizes an LCD user interface to control assay performance, automate assay analysis, and display results in a simple readout.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. Still, it is estimated that only 4% of primary care patients are screened for depression. 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. Community Partnerships: Mayo Clinic collaborates with local food banks to offer mobile food distributions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health centers (CHCs) provide critical safety-net health care for millions of underserved patients in the U.S., The Self-Identified Need for Contraception-based electronic clinical quality measures (SINC-based eCQMs) measure if patients who self-identify their interest in contraception receive a method.

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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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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Since the mid-1990s, our capacity for innovation has never stopped as hospitalists navigate a complex landscape of acute illnesses, interprofessional collaborations and the imperative to provide efficient, high-quality care. Yet this expansion has come with a significant administrative burden, particularly that of clinical documentation.

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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. While having these things can make life a bit easier and provide you with more practice options, they are not an absolute necessity.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Nguyen, also the chief medical officer for care navigation with the Federation, described the innovation priorities at Kaiser Permanente.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers. Attention to any toxidromes, any abnormal vital signs or mental status, eye findings, and neurologic examination provide the greatest help in narrowing the differential diagnosis. Acute onset psychosis is relatively rare. Health Aff (Millwood).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. Urine drug screens do not test for all ingested substances, and the results of screens, though timely do not identify the toxindrome (sympathomimetic etc.)

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today. Dr. Jordan then questions the utility and continued operation of methadone clinics, especially as the United States largely moves on from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. I think, as providers, we don’t get to see that.

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FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The NIH screens manufacturers to ensure they have reputable tests already in use in other countries with good supporting test data. The NIH also only accepts manufacturers into the program if they can demonstrate the ability to provide high volumes (e.g., This testing is done by testing labs and clinical research organizations (CROs).

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

Livornese — The Food and Drug Omnibus Reform Act (“FDORA”), enacted in December 2022, added a requirement that sponsors submit Diversity Action Plans (“DAPs”) for certain clinical studies involving drugs, biological products, or devices (codified at 21 U.S.C. § 355(z)(3) and 21 U.S.C. 360j(g)(9)(A)). intended use population.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Eric 13:49 Right. Alex 14:59 What do you think?

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

I’m going to share my screen and we can talk about that. And I’m just going to explain it to our listeners, what I’m seeing on my screen. What are your thoughts about using humor to convey ideas, thoughts, clinical work? And so here’s a picture of four healthcare providers behind bars.

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PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. Therefore understanding these diseases, their presentations and their evaluation is critical for emergency medicine providers. On clinical presentation. So what are you going to see?

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Lexy: Great.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. I guess one question for providers is, as we dive into individual sense of dignity, and I guess threats to that dignity, is potentially feeling like we’re opening this box.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness 98

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And we had a greater decrease in symptom intensity at day seven versus the usual care group by both a clinically meaningful and a statistically significant difference. And resource utilization was very low in all the groups.

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Consulting Community Patient-Centered Families 63

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Eric: Yeah.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

Today, we are going to discuss firearm safety and ways to screen for it in both the ED and clinic settings. Studies demonstrate that utilizing one of these storage methods can reduce the suicide and unintentional gun deaths in children by up to 54%. [ Kristen ] Great question. I’m here with my co-resident, Dr. Humphrey.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And I think that his research was informed by his clinical practice, his clinical practice was informed by his research. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations. And the guy was just so good. Am I summarizing that right?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? So one that the primary outcome was supposed to be documentation, which it improved documentation, it wasn’t powered to actually look at any utilization or hard outcomes. So I’m just going to share on my screen. Rachelle: Yeah.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

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Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in.

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