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Coach McLungsSM, Facilitating Shared Decision Making for Asthma - Patients and Caregivers Perspectives [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

SDM involves a collaborative process between patients and providers to make informed healthcare choices. Despite its proven benefits in enhancing patient outcomes, real-world constraints such as time, training, and staff availability hinder its widespread implementation. Intervention/Instrument: Survey.

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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. For dentists, it’s transforming diagnosis, decision-making, and treatment planning.

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New Classification System Accurate for Nasal Deformities in Cleft Lip and Palate

Physician's Weekly

Fifteen craniofacial specialists, including nine plastic surgeons and six orthodontists participated in the study, and evaluated the classification system by reviewing 10 randomly selected presurgical photographs of patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and/or palate.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Lack of Individual Drug Therapy Pattern prescribing can occur when physicians prescribe the same drugs, in the same quantities, in the same strengths to their patients, or a patient receives the same controlled substances repeatedly with no adjustment or change in therapy. Complaint ¶ 58. Complaint ¶ 60. Complaint ¶ 61.

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Heart-related side effects of cancer treatment must be addressed as early as possible, experts say

Medical Xpress

The devastating news of a cancer diagnosis understandably makes doctors and patients focus on the cancer itself.

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Axeos: Favored by Dentists, Loved by Patients

CDOCS

<p><span style="font-size:14px;"><em>Author: Devan Letemendia​</em></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px;">Excellence in diagnosis and treatment planning begins with imaging. Patients love it, too.</span></p>

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.