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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. If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. I’m guessing not.

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Social Risk Burden and Its Impact on Healthcare Use in IBD

Physician's Weekly

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. A greater social risk burden was linked to increased odds of unplanned healthcare utilization (severe vs none: OR, 3.5 [1.2-10.2])

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

I didn’t know where they existed within the hospital. Eric 07:04 You actually created things like a curriculum for hospital medicine fellows in radiation oncology. I know, I’m sure it depends with insurance and where you are. But radiation oncology was really more or less like a black box.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, 87 Fed. et al, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids-United States, 2022, CDC. CDC Clinical Practice Guideline, 10. On February 10th, the agency published a comprehensive proposal to update the guideline. 7,838 (Feb.

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Hematology Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Reddy, MPH, Senior Research Associate for ABIM, reviewed some of the aggregate data gathered so far related to hematologists, including practice setting, practice size and physician ownership of practices. Most (49.5%) are in single-specialty group practice or multi-specialty group practice (38%).

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Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Reddy, MPH, Senior Research Associate in Assessment and Research at ABIM reviewed aggregate data gathered so far related to endocrinologists, including practice setting, practice size and physician ownership of practices. Community Practice in ABIM Governance* Erica N.