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

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Sexual- and gender-minority (SGM) patients face high rates of discrimination, bias, and gender dysphoria when seeking care, including when seeking contraception. Most respondents preferred to receive the resource in discussion with their healthcare provider and for distribution through a QR code.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. for CA, 0.85

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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. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

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

Physician's Weekly

Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS , professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina, to learn more about the study and its implications for patients with COPD. It’s almost as if the physiology was changing before the patient became aware of the worsening symptoms.

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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). Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals.

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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

However, notably absent from the new draft guidance are some specific recommendations from the 2006 guidance regarding number of members, types of scientists, and representatives of the relevant patient population and from different gender and ethnic groups.

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Didn’t Match into Residency.What are Some of my Options?

Aspiring Minority Doctor

In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited. While having these things can make life a bit easier and provide you with more practice options, they are not an absolute necessity.

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