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Creative Dissemination: Community-Engaged Mural to Disseminate the PORTRAIT Registry on Peripheral Arterial Disease [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design Guided by the ecological model, we partnered with healthcare providers, city revitalization initiatives, the local arts community, and community stakeholders to shape the messaging content for the campaign. Results PAD awareness scores increased with exposure to dissemination events.

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Why Younger Adults Shouldn’t Skip Cholesterol Screenings

Imperial Center Family Medicine

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.

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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

The past medical history has historically been abused by other specialty providers using a common EMR. I don’t really need the details in order to know how to consider this patient’s risk for future cardiac events. The aSOAP note can bring the best aspect of the paper chart into the EMR.

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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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Discontinuation versus continuation of statins: a systematic review [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Two independent reviewers screened titles/abstracts, full-text articles, and extracted data. Population Studied: Adults ≥18 years Intervention/Instrument: Discontinuation of statin medications Outcome Measures: All-cause mortality, cardiovascular (CV) mortality, and CV events (e.g., Quality assessment (RoB 2.0 stroke and MI).

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Ocular Toxicities of Targeted Cancer Therapies

Physician's Weekly

This review provides an updated synthesis of the ocular side effects associated with newer classes of targeted chemotherapy agents. In addition to cataloging the ophthalmic risks associated with targeted therapies, this review proposes minimum, pragmatic, and evidence-based strategies for the screening and monitoring of ocular side effects.

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Health and Safety During LGBTQ+ Pride Month

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

This is a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and allies alike unite to support each other, strengthen the community, and celebrate themselves and others with parades and joyous events. Get regular cervical and prostate cancer screenings. 988 provides local call, text, and chat support whenever needed.