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Telehealth for Maternity Care: Qualitative Perspectives of Clinicians and Mothers [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions. Research has associated telehealth interventions with reduced self-reported smoking during pregnancy, reduced risk of gestational hypertension, and continuation of breastfeeding.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

“You want someone who can monitor patients’ side effects and have a longitudinal relationship with them.” If you have to hold a GLP-1 agonist for more than the dosing schedule in patients with diabetes, get an endocrine consult for an alternative diabetes treatment.) Prior approvals are also “a real challenge.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

Panelists Katie Fitzgerald Jones and Jessica Merlin have no relationships to disclose. Eric: This comes down to also like, if I find… As an oncologist, somebody has very high hypertension, is it my role to control that hypertension? But the cancer specific databases just don’t have this information. Should they?

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