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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records.

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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been proved to decrease the cardiovascular adverse events in several large randomized controlled trials (RCTS), but evidence limited to patients with type 2 diabetes and ASCVD. Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Contraceptive counseling for gender-diverse patients: A community needs assessment [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Potential participants accessed the survey using a QR code on an IRB-approved study flyer posted in the community, including in restaurants, stores, bars, and at Dallas Pride events. Population Studied: Adults who self-identified as SGM in North Texas.

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Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

Cardiovascular Events The SELECT trial 1 randomized 17,604 patients with preexisting CVD and overweight/obesity. Relative risk for cardiovascular events was reduced by 19% (RRR), while the absolute risk was reduced by 1.5% 5 In March 2024, Novo Nordisk announced that 24% less CKD-related events occurred in the intervention group.

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Exploring the educational needs and preferences of physicians in pharmacogenomics in primary care practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Extended duration of use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: Systematic review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Global Health electronic databases. Other adverse events were infrequent. Study selection The search identified articles published between January 2000 and June 2023 on long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods and extended duration of use.