article thumbnail

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Results PAD awareness scores increased with exposure to dissemination events. Conclusions The PORTRAIT dissemination project utilized a community-engaged mural to raise awareness about PAD. A community collaborative mural focused on vascular health. The campaign, shaped by community input, led to increased awareness and engagement.

Community 130
article thumbnail

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention/Instrument A multiclass random forest (RF) method for risk prediction was utilized. 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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Valve Unit Implementation Reduced ICU Admissions After TAVR

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Postinterventional surveillance at a dedicated valve unit is safe and reduces intensive care utilization after TAVR,” published in the June 2025 issue of Clinical Research in Cardiology by Gonska et al.

article thumbnail

A Comprehensive Guide to CT-Angiogram of the Heart-Part 1

Rao Doctor

A CT-angiogram of the heart, commonly referred to as cardiac CT angiography, is a sophisticated imaging technique that utilizes computed tomography (CT) technology to visualize the arteries of the heart, called the coronary arteries and assess blood flow within the heart. Understanding CT-Angiogram What is CT-Angiogram?

Diagnose 130
article thumbnail

Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? It happens. What Can We Learn From This?

article thumbnail

Hip fractures linked to fivefold increase in cardiovascular event risk in patients with heart failure

Medical Xpress

A research team in the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy, LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), found that hip fractures not only result in both physical and psychological injuries, but may also induce adverse cardiovascular events.

article thumbnail

Biomarker Panel Improves Prediction of CKD Progression in Children

Physician's Weekly

Biomarkers were measured in stored plasma and urine collected five months after enrollment, and a regression tree-based model was constructed using a panel of clinically relevant biomarkers to predict the time to the composite event. A total of 599 children were included; 205 (34 percent) reached the primary outcome of CKD progression.