The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

This is a peer-nominated group of academic clinicians renowned for their medical knowledge, teaching & communication skills, professionalism, and high-quality patient care. Some specific activities mentioned by the participants included patient-directed reading (e.g., NEJM , JHM , JGIM ).

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Lab Testing Clinic Education Clinical Practice 52

Physician's Practice

JUNE 25, 2025

Reynolds Blog Video Neil Baum, MD, asks whether your patients are satisfied with their care and shows how a quick survey could make the difference. If your patients are unhappy with care then they probably won't come back to your practice. June 25, 2025 By Neil Baum, MD Fact checked by Keith A.

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Patients Private Practice Management Healthcare 52

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. RWE is “the clinical evidence regarding the usage, and potential benefits or risks, of a medical product derived from analysis of RWD.”

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is a blog post and a podcast episode designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. I heard this beautiful thing the other day, which was to an electronic medical record, I am not a whole person. So how can we make it more integrated with other activities in the clinic?

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Among patients who have never smoked—“never-smokers”—those with lung cancer (LC) are more likely to have been diagnosed with an inflammatory disease, according to a study published in Nature Communications. Mining Data The researchers mined electronic medical record data from the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink.

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Diagnose Screening Clinical Practice Electronics 105

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. Alex: Okay.

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IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 127

GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Caveat as well that RCTs should not be placed on pedestal as the only answer- often patients enrolled in RCTs do not represent real world patients – observational studies do. For a trial to have value, it should not exclude patients over age 80, or those with dementia, or patients residing in nursing homes.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 127

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

What we did was ask clinicians earlier in the ICU stay for very sick patients to document prognosis, and for those who they thought would survive, to document six-month functional prognosis. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. And that’s it.

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 116

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. What words to use?

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Families Family Patient-Centered IT 113

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.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. 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.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Hospital 84

GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary A pragmatic trial evaluates the effectiveness of a treatment or intervention in real-world clinical practice. Only 5% of intervention patients received the facilitator-led component of the intervention (there were other components, facilitator-led was the most engaged component). Is that right?

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