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Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: Retrospective single-site cohort study of patients diagnosed with SCD (ICD10 codes starting with D57) from Jan 2020 to December 2023. Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia.

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Using CPCSSN data, we defined a cohort of patients aged 50-105 with diabetes diagnosed before the pre-pandemic period. Setting & Dataset: The CPCSSN database contains de-identified patient-level electronic medical record data from 13 primary care research networks across Canada.

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Clinical Strategies and Challenges of Psychiatrists in Accra, Ghana [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Four major themes emerged regarding clinical strategies for diagnosing and treating patients: patient history, use of ICD-10, application of the biopsychosocial model, and in-patient care. The majority (86%, n = 6) were under the age of 40, with 57% (n = 4) having been in practice for five years or less.

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OptiSleep Appliance.A 'How To'

CDOCS

& This software cannot diagnose obstructive sleep apnea. & Only a sleep physician can diagnose your patient with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).</p> & Consent forms are signed, finances secured, and the patient is ready to have an OptiSleep oral appliance fabricated.</p>

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Does a good history matter anymore?

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

I’m not going to talk about finances. Eric: Lynn or Anne? Lynn: I was just going to say, I think it felt really, first of all, I’ll add to the list of the impact, and this could be the least of it. But there was an impact on us as a team too. You’re like, “Oh, that’s not my place. I’m the doctor.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Those have a very, very long time horizon. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right?

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