Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

Finance 130

Finance Medical Patient-Centered Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Finance Electronics 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

We have two new FDA-approved medications that reduce that amyloid buildup and modestly slow down the progression of the disease. So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? But these tests were never designed to diagnose. Great to be back.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 96

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Emily is a bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. And as we all know, for many people there comes a time where they are no longer able to make their own medical decisions. And I know we’re talking a lot about medical decision making. Eric: Lynn or Anne?

Family 98

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 98

GeriPal

OCTOBER 27, 2022

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. But if they’re not going to live another 20 years, then there’s no point in giving them the extra medication for lowering their A1C.

IT 95

IT Clinic Screening Patients 95

GeriPal

JUNE 26, 2025

Disruptive events are medical, surgical. Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. And hospitalization for pneumonia is like a medical event. I have no idea what that is.

Illness 73

Illness Hospital IT Patient-Centered 73

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How is it financed and what comes next? And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. You can broaden the scope of diagnoses. This is not, really, the most straightforward thing.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115