Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

Research shows that patient violence spans care settings, starting in the out-of-hospital setting, continuing in the ED, and persisting into inpatient units. The analysis captured 206 violent out-of-hospital encounters, 868 violent ED encounters, and 3,561 violent non-ED hospital encounters involving 2,251 unique patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We determined personal adherence rates by calculating the mean adherence rates of the medications prescribed to each individual. The mean age was 81.2

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Medical Xpress

MAY 8, 2023

A new University of California San Diego School of Medicine study spotlights the significant reach that an individual health care cyberattack, such as ransomware, can have on regional hospital operations and patient care.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults. population,” said Drs.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

To diagnose and treat a patient, a healthcare professional listens to the patient, reads their health files, looks at medical images and interprets laboratory results. ” Patient points to lower abdomen. M-LLM (Translating for Specialist): “The patient is pointing to the lower abdomen.”

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Medical Xpress

JANUARY 10, 2025

Across the United States, no hospital is the same. Equipment, staffing, technical capabilities, and patient populations can all differ.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Neither delivery of electronic nudge letters nor letters to general practice increase uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online June 7 in Circulation. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For some individuals with advanced kidney disease, dialysis may not be the optimal treatment strategy for their condition, and these patients may be better served with conservative non-dialytic management that focuses on quality of life and symptom control.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of mailed SC kits, with and without patient navigation, versus telephone reminders for increasing cervical cancer screening. percent in the SC with patient navigation group participated in cervical cancer screening.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By understanding their insights on psychiatric care, we hoped to recognize their successes with patients and address the challenges they face more effectively. These volunteers were individually interviewed about their experiences with current clinical approaches and barriers they face in delivering care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

A new 23-item PCOS body image scale offers a reliable and validated tool to capture key appearance-related concerns in individuals with PCOS. In the validation phase, 400 individuals with PCOS were surveyed from 3 tertiary general hospitals (400 patients with PCOS).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Xiao Chen, from the First People’s Hospital in Neijiang in China, and colleagues examined the effects of therapeutic options on KOA in a literature review of 139 randomized controlled trials, including 9,644 KOA patients and involving 12 therapeutic options.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

In a healthcare context , an AI agent could run through prescriptions, identify any adverse effects based on the patient’s history, make adequate changes and order the appropriate drugs. It is an individual tool designed to function in this fashion. Subsequently, they can aid in designing clinical trials with adequate patients.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Semaglutide therapy in patients with obese heart failure leads to marked weight loss and notable gains in mood, function, and QoL over the course of 1 year. Source: link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-025-02694-5 The post Health and Mood Benefits of Semaglutide in HF first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze focus group and individual interview data. Population Studied: Nurses, family physicians, obstetricians, midwives, and hospital leaders involved in L&D at selected hospitals.

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Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

Still, we know that sometimes the final decision comes down to a single factor: cost. While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. We’re better at predicting revenue cycle projection.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Violence in hospital emergency departments (EDs) has reached crisis levels. For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. Empowered staff are safer staff—and safer staff save lives.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 24, 2025

There is endless contradictory nutrition advice from strongly opinionate individuals out there (anyone take a deep-dive into the evidence of coconut oil – a plant based oil with lots of saturated fat?), Progress is about small, consistent steps over time—just like we remind our patients. It just needs to work for you.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

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Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Because of remote monitoring, patients in the USA can monitor their blood sugar at home and talk to health experts in real time. Introduction: Those with diabetes must make sure their blood sugar levels are under control. The article goes into detail about remote monitoring, its advantages, and how you can begin using it.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

Patients who received Whole Systems Traditional Chinese Medicine (WS-TCM) while undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) reported clinically significant improvements in acute pain, stress, and anxiety with a single treatment, according to a single-center study published online in Global Advances in Integrative Medicine and Health.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Latina physicians can bring added value for health care institutions, bilingual language skills, and cultural concordance for increasingly diverse patient populations. Population Studied: Individuals who self-reported their occupation as "physician" were included in this study. In some studies, no Latina physicians have been included.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 6, 2024

In recent years, one of the most intriguing shifts has been the rise of concierge medicine—a model that’s redefining how patients interact with their healthcare providers. A concierge doctor checking the medicine for the patients." The answer lies in their approach to patient care. What is Concierge Medicine? "A

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Stephanie Sherman is a hospitalist and residency associate program director at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) who rounds at Ben Taub General Hospital and Houston’s VA hospital. She went to medical school at the University of Michigan and did internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Check Experience With Type 2 Diabetes Patients Not all endocrinologists or general practitioners have extensive experience with Type 2 diabetes.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

A comprehensive meta-analysis involving 9,644 patients with knee osteoarthritis ranked the knee brace best for osteoarthritis relief, according to findings. Exercise remains a versatile adjunct, offering broad improvements across pain, mobility, and quality-of-life domains.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Innovative surgeries, novel pharmaceuticals, and state of the art technology are just a few of the driving forces that have aided the delivery of exceptional care to patients across all specialties. Dilating and anesthetic eye drops are used routinely to treat patients in most ophthalmology clinics. 3 “Each U.S. 3 “Each U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 10, 2025

Fifteen craniofacial specialists, including nine plastic surgeons and six orthodontists participated in the study, and evaluated the classification system by reviewing 10 randomly selected presurgical photographs of patients with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and/or palate.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Key informants involved in the implementation: people with complex needs (n = 2), managers (n = 17), hospital case manager (n = 1), case managers in primary care clinics (n = 14), project managers (n = 2), physicians in charge of participating clinics (n = 4), and other healthcare professionals (n = 2).

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Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

A new study led by investigators from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, analyzed the cerebral blood flow (CBF) regulation of individuals who had experienced strokes. Various environmental and biological factors are known to affect the risks and outcomes of strokes.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

The Advisory Commission on Additional Licensing Models (ACALM) has explored the efficacy of relaxing residency requirements for internationally trained physicians and argues that doing so would not eliminate all of the current licensing and employment roadblocks for such individuals.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 13, 2023

Racial minorities in the United States are less likely to receive treatment for prostate cancer and, overall, have worse survival outcomes compared to individuals who are white. Typically, patient-level and physician-level factors have been used to explain the racial and socioeconomic differences in prostate cancer disparities.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Primary care physicians take it upon themselves to get to know patients in person, which helps them attend to their needs. Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Family physicians play a pivotal role in combating food insecurity, serving as trusted advocates for their patients and connecting them to essential food resources.

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