Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Sickle cell disease (SCD) was identified as one of our hospital's most common causes of readmission. Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia. We noted that a small number of patients are readmitted multiple times.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 30, 2025

The three most common reasons schools called emergency medical services (EMS) were for neurological crises such as seizures, psychiatric conditions or substance abuse, and trauma-related injuries, according to data from the national EMS registry analyzed by researchers from Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This membership style of medicine limits the size of a physician’s medical practice, allowing for a more personalized approach to wellness with greater connectivity, enhanced lifestyle coaching, and emotional support delivered in a relaxed, convenient practice setting.

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Mere Mortal MD

MAY 25, 2025

Friday was a special day at the rehabilitation hospital as we had what’s called a “clap out.” ” This is somewhat organized–as in, we will get an overhead page or text when it’s about to happen–and occurs when a patient has been at the hospital for a very long time.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 5, 2025

Because of the severity of his pneumonia, the hospital did a chest CT on him, so when he got the call about his appointment for the abdominal CT I had ordered, he told them he didn’t need it because he already had one. Before he ever got the test, he ended up in the emergency room with pneumonia. He thought one CT covered everything.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction The requirement of resident scholarship in all residency programs is mandated by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Fulfilling this obligation remains a challenge for residency programs and is often highlighted by the Residency Review Committee (RRC).

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Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

Affiliation will allow groups to drive high-value care and innovation PORTLAND, ORE, April 16, 2025 – Oregon-based Northwest Permanente (NWP) and The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) of Northern California announced a formal affiliation today. Most transactions are largely focused on size, scale, and finance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants: Twenty-six parent participants (eight Somali, ten Hmong, and eight Latin American) of children with serious illness were recruited through local clinics and hospitals. Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff. Intervention: NA. Outcome Measures: NA.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. 1.31) and hospitalizations (aIRR 0.74, 95% CI: 0.54-1.02). Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The present study investigates the factors influencing the dynamics of medication and non-medication adherence in young Chinese adults with hypertension. Setting or Dataset general outpatient clinic of a tertiary hospital in Chengdu. Study design and analysis explanatory sequential mixed methods.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This can fuel poor impressions among medical students and dispirit practicing family physicians. Population Studied and Instruments: Medical students, family medicine (FM) residents, and practicing physicians in all provinces and territories. Context: Concerns about family practice are well-founded, but also negatively biased.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. Only 15% (n=5) received emergency response training outside of residency, with 3% (n=1) during medical school.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

As a former hospital chaplain and current museum docent, I have learned that looking at art can be a valuable tool for self-discovery and for enhancing medical education. This understanding led to creating a course to teach medical students to observe both art and patients deeply.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

The updated tax credit seeks to incentivize physicians to serve in underserved rural communities, addressing longstanding healthcare disparities and bolstering access to medical care for Alabama’s rural residents. HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

Key takeaways: Admission delays from the ED can adversely affect mortality, length of stay, medical errors and quality of care. LIKE MOST HOSPITALS , Veterans Affairs facilities across the country track admission delays, the amount of time it takes to move a patient who’s being admitted out of the ED and into an inpatient bed.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare research involving patient medical data is often delayed by lengthy approval processes. The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals. Data underwent quality assessment to ensure reliability of subsequent analyses.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

The need for medical assistants is growing rapidly. Each year, an estimated 119,800 medical assistant jobs will open up across the country, including in Connecticut. Each year, an estimated 119,800 medical assistant jobs will open up across the country, including in Connecticut. Measuring patients’ height and weight.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

They receive enhanced support and service from staff members, and medical advocacy and coordination with other health providers the patient may see. It’s a comprehensive, enhanced practice experience that can be difficult to provide in today’s busy, high-need medical marketplace.

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Medical Xpress

JUNE 23, 2025

Endoscopies could be replaced by far less invasive capsule sponge tests for half of all patients with Barrett's esophagus, a known precursor to esophageal cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital and Queen Mary University of London. The research was published in The Lancet.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Author: Ishani Majmudar Medical waste is rising tremendously each year, and its implications are not slight. Medical waste is a broad term used to describe any waste products generated at healthcare facilities and includes everything ranging from the disposal of small needles to the energy consumption of radiologic scans. 3 “Each U.S.

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Dignity Health Medical Foundation

JUNE 5, 2025

Dignity Health Medical Group – Sierra Nevada is pleased to announce the acquisition of Sierra Nevada Gastroenterology, effective June 9, 2025. The clinic will reopen to patients as Dignity Health Medical Group – Sierra Nevada on June 16, 2025.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: A hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada. 10), Habits/Activities (1.8;1.7), Medication (2.1;1.5), and Health (2.0;1.3), but increased for: Social (2.5;2.9) Physicians ordered new tests for 10/26 (38%) patients, changed the medication plan of 7/26 (27%) patients, and referred14/26 (54%) patients to a specialist.

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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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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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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 21, 2025

Patients can choose a more personalized approach to managing their cardiology care ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY – January 21, 2025 – Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP), the nation’s leading full- service concierge medical service provider, today announced that Thomas P. About Thomas P. Archer, MD, FACC, FHSA Dr. Thomas P.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 20, 2025

Exploring a Medical Office Assistant Career Are you looking for a stable, rewarding career in the healthcare field that doesn’t require a degree? Becoming a medical office assistant might be the perfect choice for you. What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do? What Does a Medical Office Assistant Do?

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues developed and tested a virtual reality PME cleaning and disinfection training module. . also from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement. Barreto, Ph.D., Shenoy, M.D., ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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NPR Health - Shots

AUGUST 15, 2022

Nonprofit RIP Medical Debt buys up unpaid hospital bills plaguing low-income patients and frees them from having to pay. Image credit: Juan Diego Reyes for KHN and NPR)

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 26, 2025

A quick visit for a skin rash could land a high school senior in the hospital for a leukemia workup.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A cohort containing a random sample of 5% of the database population of Quebec provincial administrative databases including demographic data, pharmacy claims data, medical consultations, and hospitalizations was used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients were provided a CGM, received education on medication, diet and exercise, and completed surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Most practices were clinician owned solo or group practice (n=13), followed by hospital or health system owned (n=6). Two practices were FQHCs.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 21, 2023

A study led by the University of St Andrews suggests that a frequently used medical test for heart injury could one day be used to help COVID-19 patients avoid hospitalization.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

Wayne Lipton, CCP Managing Partner ​America’s trust in medical professionals is dwindling, according to Gallup’s annual professions rating , dropping from a high of 67% in 2021 to just 53% in 2024. For medical professionals and those working in healthcare, the article was grim. But what can be done? How do we know?

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2025

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 27, 2025

Bonuses by teaching status Academic hospitalists: $36,893 Nonacademic hospitalists: $44,123 Incentives by employer type Hospital/hosp. corporation: $41,271 Local hospitalist group: $79,000 Multispecialty/primary care: $60,935 Nat.

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