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Targeted education for general practitioners reduces risk of depression or suicide ideation or attempts in older primary care patients - Maxwell M.
[Abstract unavailable] Language: Eng...
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - January 19, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news

Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care?Can Medical Students Afford to Choose Primary Care?
Is it financially feasible for indebted medical school graduates to enter primary care? Academic Medicine: Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines - January 19, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Med Students Journal Article Source Type: news

Physician Facebook Phobia
Change your name. Don't friend patients. Delete your Facebook account. This is official social media advice for today's medical students and physicians. What fuels physician Facebook phobia?
Source: Consultant Live - January 19, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Primary Care Inaccurately Estimates Cancer Risk
NEW ORLEANS (IMNG) - Primary care physicians' assessments of the risks and benefits of cancer screening didn't match with reality, based on the results of a survey of beliefs and behaviors around cancer...
Source: OncologySTAT Latest News - January 18, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

UCLA Health System chosen as a Medicare Shared Savings Program accountable care organization
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that the UCLA Health System has been selected to participate in the federal government's Medicare Shared Savings Program as an accountable care organization. As a participant in the program, the UCLA Health System will work with CMS to provide high-quality service and care to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries while reducing the growth in Medicare expenditures through enhanced care coordination. "Through participation in the Medicare Shared Savings Program and other initiatives, UCLA is taking an innovative approach to health care, fo...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - January 18, 2013 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Mental Health and Mental Health Care in Rural America: The Hope of Redesigned Primary Care
Discusses Veterans' mental heath treatment disparities between rural and nonrural residents. -- Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
Source: Rural publications via the Rural Assistance Center - January 18, 2013 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Plasma Product OK'd for Clotting Disorders
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved a new treatment for blood coagulation disorders, manufactured from pooled human donor plasma, the agency announced Thursday.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 18, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Economists outline strategy to counter primary care shortage
A study suggests a systematic move toward team-based care, adoption of health IT and greater use of nonphysician practitioners.
Source: American Medical News - GOVERNMENT - January 18, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Watchdog Backs AF Blood Pressure Device
Detection and treatment of dangerous atrial fibrillation is vital A new blood pressure measuring device that can also detect a dangerous heart condition has been backed by the health watchdog. New guidance from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) supports the use of the 'WatchBP Home A' device by healthcare professionals in primary care to opportunistically detect atrial fibrillation (AF) during measurement of blood pressure. AF is one of the most common types of abnormal heart rhythm and a major cause of stroke if left untreated...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 18, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hypertension Source Type: news

Angola: Municipalisation in Health Sector Improved Services - Minister
[ANGOP]Luanda -The Angolan minister of Health , José Van-Dúnem, Thursday in Luanda said that the municipalisation programme in the sector has improved the service of hospitals toward the communities, specially related to the primary care interventions in most districts.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 18, 2013 Category: African Health Source Type: news

In An Era Of Steroids, Febuxostat, And Rasburicase, Can Cherries Prevent Gout?
In an era characterized by an expanding array of expensive gout therapies, it may be that cherries have been overlooked.
Source: Consultant Live - January 18, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

2013 STFM Medical Student Education Conference New Attendee Orientation (Aaron Michelfelder MD)
This is a camtasia presentation of the New Attendee Orientation for the 2013 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine Medical Student Education Conference in San Antonio, Texas
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 18, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

The month: January 2013
Source: Department of Health Area: News This edition of 'the month' includes the following topics: . New planning guidance from NHS Trust Development Authority . Launch of updated Choice of Any Qualified Provider implementation packs . Publication of NHS Standard Contract 2013/14 final draft . Penultimate article on health research in primary care. . Updates on clinically-led commissioning, Public Health England, education and training, informatics and the new Health and Social Care Information Centre, and NHS Property Services Ltd.
Source: NeLM - News - January 18, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

A nationwide prospective study on prescribing pattern of antidepressant drugs in Italian primary care
The objectivee was to explore antidepressant drug (AD) prescribing patterns in Italian primary care. Methods: Overall, 276 Italian general practitioners (GPs) participated in this prospective study, recruiting patients over 18 years who started AD therapy during the enrolment period (Jan 2007 to Jun 2008). During visits at baseline and 3, 6 and 12 months, data about patients' characteristics and AD treatments were collected by the GPs. Discontinuation rate among new users of AD classes (i.e. selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI); tricyclics (TCAs); other ADs) were compared. Logistic regression ...
Source: NeLM - Mental Health - January 18, 2013 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: news

Indiana network for patient care helps officials track disease, warn of outbreaks
(Indiana University) A 2012 Institute of Medicine report explored the potential for the integration of primary care and public health, such as the two-way flow of information that takes place in Indiana today, to improve the health of individuals, communities and entire populations.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 18, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

'A Spoonful of Sugar ...' Is Bad Advice (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- More dietary sugar equals more weight and vice versa, according to a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted for the World Health Organization.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Go For The Glory Quiz
Test your skills in this 5-question quiz.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

TAVI: No Safety Edge for Sapien Valve (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Medtronic's CoreValve system was as safe as Edward Lifesciences' Sapien valve when both long and short-term death rates were compared.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

REC: EHR implementation is a ‘psychological roller coaster’
“Electronic health record adoption is a “psychological roller coaster” for small physician practices, according to a report by the Washington Idaho Regional Extension Center (WIREC). The process involves unrealistic expectations that reach a peak right before implementation, a plunge into a “trough of disillusionment” and then a recovery phase involving a lot of hard work, [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 17, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Failure Implementation Primary Care Source Type: news

HF Mortality Linked to Glucose Levels (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Serum glucose measured at the time of hospital admission predicted 30-day mortality in acute heart failure patients, researchers reported.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Never Face a Medical Board Investigation AloneNever Face a Medical Board Investigation Alone
You've gotten the dreaded letter: Your state's Medical Board wants to investigate you. What should you do first? What should you avoid? Here are some tips from physicians and lawyers. Medscape Business of Medicine
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Article Source Type: news

Go For The Glory Quiz: Oral plaques; Post MI-depression; Weakness; Polycystic kidney disease
Test your skills in this 5-question quiz.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Chancroid
A 24-year-old Hispanic woman sought medical attention due to the acute onset of a very painful vulvar rash. She had never experienced anything similar.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Crusted Scabies
A 40-year-old woman who had been receiving prednisone and azathioprine for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus complained of a widespread, intensely pruritic, heavily scaling skin rash.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Condyloma Acuminata (Severe External Genital Warts)
A 27-year-old man sought medical attention due to a malodorous discharge from the groin area and a “few bumps” in the same location.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Fixed Drug Eruption
A 41-year-old man was treated with doxycycline for non-gonococcal urethritis. Five days into his therapy, a superficial but painful neck lesion developed.
Source: Consultant Live - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Brief, Practical Intervention Can Improve Physician-Patient Communication Relating To Newly Prescribed Medications
When it comes to prescribing medications to their patients, physicians could use a dose of extra training, according to a new study led by a UCLA researcher. In previous studies, Dr. Derjung Tarn and her colleagues found that when doctors prescribed medicines, the information they provided to patients was spotty at best, they rarely addressed the cost of medications and they didn't adequately monitor their patients' medication adherence...
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - January 17, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Primary Care / General Practice Source Type: news

Efforts to Bolster Rural Primary Care Residencies Fall Short
HealthLeaders Media article discusses how if the measure of success is intent and outcomes then the federal government's efforts under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 to train more physicians in primary care and to practice in rural areas have been a failure.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - January 17, 2013 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Featured in Journal Watch: Same Old Tick, but Now Vectoring an Added Disease
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

In Select Few, Autism Symptoms May Resolve
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Trivalent Flu Vaccine -- with Protein Grown in Insect Cells -- Approved
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

FDA Proposes New Rules Restricting Metal-on-Metal Hip Implant Marketing
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 17, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Commissioning Excellence Jan 2013
Source: Primary Care Commissioning Area: News Local enhanced services, avoiding litigation and accounting for "social value" are among the topics in the January issue of Commissioning Excellence.
Source: NeLM - News - January 17, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Exposure to bisphosphonates and risk of gastrointestinal cancers: case-control studies
In this study, researchers investigated the link between bisphosphonates used for the prevention or treatment of osteoporosis and the risk of gastrointestinal cancers in the general population, in a nested case-control study, and examined the most recent data from the UK QResearch database. They also replicated the analyses using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink [CPRD, previously known as General Practice Research Database (GPRD)]. Patients aged ?50 with a diagnosis of a primary gastrointestinal cancer in 1997-2011 were each matched with up ...
Source: NeLM - News - January 17, 2013 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Guided care provides better quality of care for chronically ill older adults
(Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health) Patients who received Guided Care, a comprehensive form of primary care for older adults with chronic health problems, rated the quality of their care much higher than patients in regular primary care, and used less home care. Researchers also found that in a 32-month randomized controlled trial, Guided Care patients rated the quality of their care significantly higher than those in normal care.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - January 17, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Bacterial Pathogens in Our FoodBacterial Pathogens in Our Food
Is Aunt Gert's potato salad safe? Which foods may be contaminated with bacteria? U.S. Pharmacist
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - January 16, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care Journal Article Source Type: news

New Hour Rules Not Necessarily Helping Interns (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- New duty hour regulations meant to limit fatigue and promote patient safety haven't improved outcomes for surgical interns, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Mental Health Parity Coming, President Says
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- President Obama promised Wednesday that his administration would issue final rules implementing a 2008 law that requires insurers to cover mental health services on a par with physical care, but he gave no time frame for doing so.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Breast Cancer Screening in Older Women Proving Costly, Likely Ineffective
According to a recent study conducted by researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine, a hefty portion of the $1 billion-plus Medicare pays out each year for breast cancer screening may be ill-spent. Published online Jan. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine
Source: AAFP Health of the Public - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Fecal Transplant Boosts Drug Tx for C. Diff (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- Adding fecal infusion to vancomycin, with or without bowel lavage, was significantly more effective than the drug regimens alone at treating recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, researchers found.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Verbal Score Drop as Teen May Predict Later Mental Illness (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- A decline in verbal ability during adolescence was a strong predictor of psychosis during adulthood, a historical cohort study found.
Source: MedPage Today Primary Care - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Hand Deformities and Heart Problems: A Case Report
Patients who present with congenital hand deformities in association with cardiac disorders require a detailed evaluation.
Source: Consultant Live - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Many more doctors using electronic health records
“More than two-thirds of family doctors now use electronic health records, and the percentage doing so doubled between 2005 and 2011, a new study finds. If the trend continues, 80 percent of family doctors — the largest group of primary care physicians — will be using electronic records by 2013, the researchers predicted.” Article Denise Mann, KPTV, 15 [...]
Source: ICMCC: The International Council on Medical and Care Compunetics - January 16, 2013 Category: Information Technology Authors: Lodewijk Tags: News Adoption GP Primary Care Source Type: news

A Faculty Development Workshop for Primary Care Preceptors: Helping Your Residents Care for Patients Requesting Opioids for Chronic Pain (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
This faculty development workshop is designed to provide faculty preceptors in resident physicians' training programs with critical information for appropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics; currently the most effective medications for pain management. This workshop will provide critical information for training physicians in the appropriate prescribing of these medications, recognizing the signs of possible prescription drug abuse, particularly among chronic pain patients, and discussing these issues with their patients. Using a typical resident presentation of an unfolding patient case in a primary care setting, this ...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Talking to Patients About Sensitive Topics: Communication and Screening Techniques for Increasing the Reliability of Patient Self-Report (National Institute on Drug Abuse)
This curriculum module focuses on interviewing patients about sensitive subjects (substance and alcohol use/abuse, intimate partner violence, and sexual history). Although the content for each of these subjects is different, interviewing techniques for decreasing patient anxiety and resistance in order to obtain accurate information are very similar. This module can be used as part of a course on medical interviewing or as a stand-alone module if students have received the prerequisite instruction in basic interviewing skills and history taking. The format for this product includes a lecture using PowerPoint slides, follo...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

The Impact of a PCMH Clerkship Curriculum on NBME Subject Exam Performance (Harald Lausen DO)
There is little evidence to show that factors other than clerkship annual timing and sequential order have any significant positive impact on NBME subject exam performance for all core specialties. In 2008, the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIUSOM) Department of Family and Community Medicine clerkship realigned the core principle of the curriculum (DFCMCC) to uniquely present the Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) as the overarching perspective for the curriculum. To measure the impact of this curriculum on the NBME subject exam, three academic years of class performance prior to implementation and thr...
Source: Family Medicine Digital Resources Library (FMDRL) Recently Uploaded - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news

Featured in Journal Watch: Frequency of Repeat CT in Transferred Trauma Patients
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Fecal Transplantation Effective for Recurrent C. difficile Infection
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Smartphone Apps for Melanoma Detection Not So Smart
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news

Benefits of Early HIV Treatment Shown in Two Studies
Source: Physician's First Watch current issue - January 16, 2013 Category: Primary Care Tags: Medical News Source Type: news