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

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania. Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. Intervention/Instrument A multiclass random forest (RF) method for risk prediction was utilized. The RF models had an AUROC of 0.87

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Understanding Growth Hormone Treatment via Online Care in Canada

Dr. Zaar

Some common culprits include: Hypothyroidism Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Menopause and perimenopause Insulin resistance Cortisol imbalances due to chronic stress Low testosterone in men These conditions can impact how the body utilizes energy, making it tougher to shed pounds—even with a healthy lifestyle.

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CDRH Seeks Public Comment on How to Increase Patient Access to At-Home Use Medical Technologies

FDA Law

Cato — On June 1, CDRH announced that it is seeking public comment on questions regarding how CDRH can facilitate access to medical technologies designed for use outside of traditional clinical settings, particularly in the home. At-home medical technologies include, but are not limited to, monitoring and wearable devices (e.g.,

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

And assisted living doesn’t offer the same level of medical supportive services as nursing homes. That services need to be in the building, I think is an important one to talk about because people in nurses nursing homes do have a lot of medical issues. I mean, there’s a workforce shortage of palliative care providers.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And resource utilization was very low in all the groups. Marie 17:38 So this is a moving target right now because the, you know, the emergency pandemic telehealth regulations that were waived have sunsetted as of January 1st.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

This DEA is taking 6-months to consider how to move forward vis a vis restrictions and requirements for telehealth in a post-pandemic world. Alex: We are delighted to welcome Joe Rotella, who’s the Chief Medical Officer of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Eric: Yeah.