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Personalized Health Insights: Innovative Lab Testing Solutions

Family Medicine Austin

At Family Medicine Austin, we believe that personalized health insights are the key to proactive and effective healthcare. That’s why we’ve embraced innovative lab testing solutions to provide you with detailed, accurate, and timely information about your well-being.

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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organizations determine the value of health technologies such as medical devices, lab tests, or medications. Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Setting: Community-based primary health care.

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Talking to families about why we don’t need tests after febrile seizures or first-time seizures

PEMBlog

Did you know that lab tests and CT scans are not recommended for most children who fully recover after a simple febrile seizure or a first-time, unprovoked generalized seizure? They also expose young children to painful venipuncture and unnecessary radiation.

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FDA Recalls Chocolate Candies Over Milk Allergy Risk

Physician's Weekly

A lab test later confirmed that the candy contained milk, which was not listed on the ingredient label, CBS News explained in a report. The recall affects six lots of the Christmas seeds variety and 15 lots of the white seed variety. A full list of the affected lot numbers is below. Food and Drug Administration. All rights reserved.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. Thank you for sharing that.

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. And this paper really gave us some important insights into older adults’ priorities about medication use that can inform these conversations. Elizabeth: Nice to be here.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings. What is primary care?