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Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: The Academic GP Developing Network Database (AHON), containing data from the electronic patient file of more than 460,000 patients was used for analysis. We will present the results at the NAPCRG conference. Subpopulations are made of patients with and without any history of cardiovascular diseases.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake. Presenting vaccination as the default, opt-out decision to make it easier to accept than refuse the vaccine. This last strategy is an example of nudging.

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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. Respondents were also asked about their real-world use of cardioprotective strategies over the past 5 years.

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

FDA Law Blog

12, 2012). “[W]hen the circumstances surrounding the presentation of a prescription would give rise to suspicion in a ‘reasonable professional,’ there is a duty to question the prescription.” Holiday CVS, L.L.C. d/b/a CVS/Pharmacy, Nos. 219 and 5195; Decision and Order , 77 Fed. 62,316, 62,342 (Oct. Holiday CVS , 77 Fed. Complaint ¶ 62.

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AAP Updates Recommendations for Adolescent Contraceptive Counseling

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a policy statement issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics and published online June 16 in Pediatrics , updated recommendations are presented for providing adolescent patients with contraceptive counseling and methods. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Then some may not take insurance, and it might be an out-of-pocket cost, which maybe some people then won’t be able to afford and so forth. Absolutely. Emmy: Yeah.

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