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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. Outcome Measures Appointment outcome status was categorized into 1 of 3 event types: completed appointment (CA), noshow (NS), or same day cancellation (SDC), with NS and SDC representing a MA. 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

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. 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. MDPCP promises to narrow the primary care-subspecialist reimbursement gap and provide opportunities to improve patient care in the short term. Phillips, Jr.

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 It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials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

Both documents also note that FDA may request copies of the DMC meeting records when the study is completed, and access to the electronic data sets used for each set of interim analysis. Along those lines, the new draft guidance does not contain any language regarding DMCs not being appropriate for early phase studies.

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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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eMDR System Enhancements

FDA Law

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — On March 17, 2023, enhancements to FDA’s electronic Medical Device Reporting (eMDR) system will go live. Manufacturers who submit reports via the FDA Electronic Submissions Gateway are being advised to update their systems by this time.