Clinical Practice, Electronics, Information and Provider

A Novel Definition of Urinary Tract Infection across a National Primary Care Network [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective cross-sectional study.

Primary Care

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis

The ICH E6(R3) Guideline: A Major Update to Good Clinical Practice

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Livornese As anticipated, the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) published the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline E6(R3) Principles and Annex 1 on January 6, 2025. The guideline expands its focus on data governance and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of sponsors, investigators, and service providers.

Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice Clinic Government Management

Knock, Knock – FDA Issues Guidance on Best Processes and Practices During BIMO Inspections

FDA Law Blog

JUNE 10, 2024

In an effort to clarify for industry and alleviate some of the stress associated with these activities, last week the FDA issued a draft guidance aimed at providing recommendations on how to handle inspections under FDA’s Bioresearch Monitoring (BIMO) program. 11-12 of the guidance for a list of these resources). Ask clarifying questions.

Provider

Provider Electronics Clinical Practice Management

When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog

MAY 13, 2024

FDA recognizes the potential of RWE to support regulatory submissions of medical devices and to inform benefit-risk analysis of such products, while assuring patients have timely access to devices. However, in our experience, there is a large gap between FDA’s lauding the value of RWE and practice.

Medical

Medical Clinic Patients IT

You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

ED providers and radiologists commonly face the scenario of interpreting a CXR in a child with respiratory complaints prompting the questions: Does that infiltrate represent bacterial pneumonia, inflammation, or simply atelectasis? Drivers of CXR overuse are myriad and can be thought of at the system, provider, and patient levels.

Asthma

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective.

Screening

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT

Are your patients satisfied?

Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

Welcome to Five Minute Practice Fix, featuring instructional videos by physician and business of medicine expert Neil Baum, M.D. Dr. Baum is Professor of Clinical Urology at Tulane Medical School in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has also written The Complete Business Guide to a Successful Medical Practice, which was published in 2015.

Patients

Patients Private Practice Management Healthcare

GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 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.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Families

Families Family Patient-Centered IT

POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s like how liberating it is to eliminate resentments, regrets and envy from our lives and how great it is in our clinical practice when we’re able to help families reconcile after an estrangement, how much relief that brings. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness

PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. Eric: Nudge it. Kate: Nudge it.

Consulting

Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT

Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

This is because clinical trials are expensive to carry out and therefore tend to be of relatively short duration, with statins trials having on average two to five years of treatment exposure. 9 The availability of electronic health records makes it easier to follow up on patients’ health information for an extended period.

Primary Care

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. It was a letter from the clinic introducing it. It was information about our ACP facilitator. So the idea is to really normalize advanced care planning as part of clinical workflows.

Primary Care

Primary Care IT Clinic Illness

Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

He really practiced what he preached. 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.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Primary Care Digest

A Novel Definition of Urinary Tract Infection across a National Primary Care Network [Geriatrics]

The ICH E6(R3) Guideline: A Major Update to Good Clinical Practice

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Knock, Knock – FDA Issues Guidance on Best Processes and Practices During BIMO Inspections

When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

Are your patients satisfied?

GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

Pragmatic Trial of ACP: Jennifer Wolff, Sydney Dy, Danny Scerpella, and Jasmine Santoyo-Olsson

Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

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