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A Comprehensive Approach to the Opioid Crisis in Caldwell County, North Carolina [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis. Caldwell County is getting $800,000 per year from the Purdue Drug Settlement for the next 15 years but our county manager states it will take ten times that much money to address this crisis appropriately. County budgets are strained as a result. Through a funded grant.

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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. According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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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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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

If there’s visual symptoms, patients are often hospitalized for high dose intravenous symptoms. So significantly higher remissions were seen, sustained remissions were seen, and the medium cumulative steroid dose was 40% lower in patients, and they also had lower serious infections and with no higher me events in the group.

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

This complimentary virtual event will feature a candid, strategic conversation with national health care leaders as they share their insights and best practices from proven value-based care models to help health systems, physician groups, and health plans navigate this critical transformation. .” PT / 11:30 a.m. CT / 12:30 p.m.

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Venous thromboembolism associated with COVID-19: Therapeutic management and long-term outcomes outlined

Medical Xpress

The risk of new thromboembolic events after discontinuation of anticoagulant therapy in patients with pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis associated with COVID-19 is low and similar to that of patients with venous thromboembolism secondary to hospitalization for other acute medical conditions.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 3: Pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

When we think of managing agitated patients we think of medicines – but that shouldn’t be our first option. This podcast episode hosted by Brad Sobolewski ( @PEMTweets ) and co-authored by Dennis Ren ( @DennisRenMD ) is all about age-appropriate pharmacologic management strategies for agitated children. 2022 May 11;12(5):e059876.