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Quality Improvement in Health Care: From Conceptual …

WEBAs the movement to improve quality in health care has evolved over the past several decades, organizations whose missions focus on supporting and promoting …

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Liver disease gets new name and diagnostic criteria

WEBLiver disease gets new name and diagnostic criteria. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease will now be called metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease, or …

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Health care reform: Possibilities & opportunities for primary care

WEBRandy Wexler, MD, MPH, Department of Family Medicine, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, 2231 North High Street, Northwood and High Building, Columbus, OH …

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Medical assistants identify strategies and barriers to clinic

WEBMAs deemed by peers as “most efficient” were selected for follow-up interviews. We evaluated personal strategies for efficiency, barriers to efficient care, impact of physician …

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Physician assistants in psychiatry: Helping to meet America’s …

WEBPhysician assistants and NPs make up the largest group of non-physician mental health professionals who can prescribe medications. Physician assistant training is most …

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Why VA Health Care Is Different Federal Practitioner

WEBThe VA’s second core strength is its team-based, veteran-centric model of primary care that focuses on patient-driven, proactive, and personalized care. This patient aligned care …

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Major U.S. GI societies issue strategic plan on environmental

WEBFour major professional medical societies in the United States have called for urgent action to create a more sustainable model for digestive health care that decreases the …

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The agitated patient: Steps to take, how to stay safe

WEBThe agitated patient: Steps to take, how to stay safe. J Fam Pract. 2018 March;67 (3):136-141,144-147. By. Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, MPH, MBA. Maureen Grissom, PhD. Author …

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Gender Differences in the Utilization of Health Care Services

WEBStudies have consistently shown that women use more health care services than men. 1-4 Several explanations have been offered. These differences may be associated with …

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A Family Physician's Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine

WEBA Family Physician's Introduction to Lifestyle Medicine. This supplement was sponsored by American College of Lifestyle Medicine. It was edited and peer reviewed by The Journal …

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Skin Cancer in the US Military MDedge Dermatology

WEBRisk Factors and Management of Skin Cancer Among Active-Duty Servicemembers and Veterans . UV exposure is the primary mitigatable risk factor for developing melanoma …

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Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty: Which Surgical Approach Is Optimal

WEBTotal hip arthroplasty (THA) is one of the most successful orthopedic interventions performed today in terms of pain relief, cost effectiveness, and clinical outcomes. 1 As a …

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Massachusetts named healthiest state for 2017 MDedge

WEBA year of surprises ended with one more bit of unexpected news: Massachusetts, not Hawaii, is the healthiest state in the country, according to the annual …

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Perfect Depression Care Spread: The Traction of Zero Suicides

WEBFrom The Menninger Clinic, Houston, TX. Abstract. Objective: To summarize the Perfect Depression Care initiative and describe recent work to spread this quality improvement …

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Intrauterine fetal demise: Care in the aftermath, and beyond

WEBIntrauterine fetal demise (IUFD) is fetal death that occurs after 20 weeks gestation but before birth. 1 If the gestational age is unknown at the time of death, a fetus that weighs …

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Federal Practitioner MDedge

WEBPatrick O. Godwin, MD, MBA; Hobart Z. Zhu, MD; Bradley Recht, MD. Health systems should be prepared to implement mitigation strategies if significant mail delivery delays …

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Visual hallucinations: Differentiating psychiatric and neurologic

WEBA visual hallucination is a visual percept experienced when awake that is not elicited by an external stimulus. Historically, hallucinations have been synonymous with psychiatric …

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Clinician Reviews Clinician Reviews

WEBBringing you the latest news, research and reviews, exclusive interviews, podcasts, quizzes, and more.

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Reframing Clinician Distress: Moral Injury Not Burnout

WEB*This version has been corrected. In the original version the first sentence incorrectly referred to moral injury instead of burnout.. F or more than a decade, the term burnout …

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