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Sort by: Relevance | Newest | OldestNew guide offers recommendations on caring for transgender patients
The guide provides information for clinicians on common terminology and initial evaluation, medical management, transgender-specific surgical options, medicolegal and societal issues, and practice improvement.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/07/02/4.htm
2 Jul 2019
Encouraging change with motivational interviewing
Physicians can adopt these interviewing techniques to help patients accomplish goals like smoking cessation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/10/encouraging-change-with-motivational-interviewing.htm
1 Oct 2022
More than 40% of outpatient antibiotic prescriptions in U.S. may be inappropriate
In a cross-sectional analysis of 2015 data, about 56 million antibiotic prescriptions in ambulatory care settings were either inappropriate or lacked a documented indication.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/12/17/1.htm
17 Dec 2019
Thriving at the annual meeting in your early-career years
I.M. Ready is a new regular feature that will explore topics relevant to early-career internal medicine physicians, particularly those within five years of residency graduation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/04/thriving-at-the-annual-meeting-in-your-early-career-years.htm
1 Apr 2023
Preventive care still on during COVID-19
COVID-19 may foster innovation in primary care as physicians describe various strategies to reconnect with patients, such as leveraging telemedicine visits to also explain the practice's coronavirus-related safety protocols, or systematically reviewing their panels to flag at-risk patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/preventive-care-still-on-during-covid-19.htm
1 Nov 2020
New thinking about Alzheimer's diagnosis
New technology and biomarkers have contributed to the detection of Alzheimer's disease, but clinicians are skeptical about the value of a diagnosis without the ability to treat the condition.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/11/new-thinking-about-alzheimers-diagnosis.htm
1 Nov 2019
Reminder devices did not increase patients' medication adherence, study finds
There were no significant differences in the adjusted odds of optimal adherence (a medication possession ratio of 80% or more) between a control group and three groups using different reminder devices.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/03/07/4.htm
7 Mar 2017
Pandemic provides impetus for POLSTs
ACP Advance: COVID-19 Recovery Program helps practices use team-based quality improvement to improve systems of care for patients with or at risk for COVID-19.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/01/pandemic-provides-impetus-for-polsts.htm
1 Jan 2022
Immunization is everyone's issue
ACP convened an Advisory Group to discuss barriers to adult immunization, with the goal of identifying potential ways for ACP to address them on a population health level.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/immunization-is-everyones-issue.htm
1 Oct 2019
Pneumococcal vaccination rates suboptimal in adults with asthma
A total of 42.0% of the study sample reported ever receiving a pneumococcal vaccine, with rates below this threshold in those ages 18 to 44 years (32.7%), men (39.0%), and those with a college degree (36.7%), among other groups, researchers found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/03/1.htm
3 Oct 2017