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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in clinical practice. Setting: Divisions of Family Medicine and Community Internal Medicine at a large academic medical center in Southeast Minnesota.

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Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate comprehensiveness of care measure reliability for clinicians and advanced practice practitioners (e.g. nurse practitioners and physician assistants), as well as validity of the measure and its association with poorly controlled diabetes (e.g. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study).

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Tinder Profiles By Specialty

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What we found will astound, puzzle, and probably disturb you: Administration: I’m going to provide no help during the process, but be damn sure I’ll take full credit for it afterwards! Chiropractic: There is zero evidence I provide any benefit, but I’ll give you the best placebo you can imagine! In fact, I prefer it!

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. Alex 01:57 Joe, which city are you joining from?

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

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Our loves, our triumphs, our failures, our work, our families. . VA “gets” the importance of storytelling in medicine, without the need for reams of research to back it up. So I think as palliative care clinicians, we use narrative as we try to understand more about the persons that we’re caring for and their families.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

Alex: Today we are delighted to welcome Heather Coats, who’s a palliative care nurse practitioner and scientist and Director of Research at the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, or HPNA, an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado and Schutz College of Nursing. This is Eric Widera. Heather: Sure.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Archives of Internal Medicine 2010.