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

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania. Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. The RF models had an AUROC of 0.87 for CA, 0.85

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

Annals of Family Medicine

These barriers combined with inadequate medical education on care for SGM patients contribute to poor reproductive outcomes, including high rates of teen and unplanned pregnancy. Most respondents preferred to receive the resource in discussion with their healthcare provider and for distribution through a QR code.

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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. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Q&A: Can Digital Inhalers Predict Exacerbations of COPD?

Physician's Weekly

Another interesting observation was the increase in rescue inhaler use, which we would expect during an exacerbation, but it occurred much later, around 48 hours prior to the event. That highlighted a potential new window for early detection and prevention—if we could flag these events before the patient even knew they were happening.

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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). A higher concentration of medication in the body can lead to more side effects such as headaches, dizziness, or tremors. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study.

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How to Run DMC? It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

FDA Law

Tobolowsky & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & David B. Moreover, DMCs are being used in trials of modest size and in the context of increased globalization of medical product development. DMC charters have also grown longer and more detailed. They also both stressed the value of previous DMC experience.

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FDA Releases Final Guidance on Use of Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations

FDA Law

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Lisa M. Baumhardt, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — As an end of the year gift, FDA finalized its guidance document, Digital Health Technologies for Remote Data Acquisition in Clinical Investigations , in late December. By Adrienne R.

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