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What Are the Most Common Preventive Services? A Complete Guide

Mesa Family Physician

Understanding Preventive Health Services: The Foundation of Wellness Preventive health services encompass medical care specifically designed to prevent illnesses, detect conditions early, and promote overall wellness. In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure.

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Postural Sway Velocity Effective for Assessing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Physician's Weekly

Postural sway velocity as a screening tool in diabetic peripheral neuropathy represents a potential early marker of balance impairment and fall risk. Several sessions included presentations on diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), such as the Peter J. Dyck Lecture on mechanisms of diabetic neuropathic pain.

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Challenges and Gains of AI in Primary Health Systems

Physician's Weekly

The main opportunities for AI in PHC involve improving diagnostic accuracy, refining screening efforts, and predicting diseases early to enhance service delivery. Extracted data on study characteristics, opportunities, challenges, and requirements were synthesized using thematic-framework analysis based on the PCET.

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Demystifying Diabetes

East Cary Family Physicians

Insights from East Cary Family Physicians In this blog, we’re diving into one of the most prevalent health conditions worldwide: diabetes. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, caring for someone with diabetes, or seeking to enhance your knowledge, this guide aims to provide valuable insights and practical tips. What is Diabetes?

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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

My system lets me choose whether to import everything or essentially nothing from the patient’s past medical history. And the past medical history reminds me of a bag person, dragging around everything they own in a stolen supermarket shopping cart. Labs and CT scan ordered, anticipate diagnostic colonoscopy.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area.

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Why Younger Adults Shouldn’t Skip Cholesterol Screenings

Imperial Center Family Medicine

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.