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Patients Over Paperwork

Patients Over Paperwork

We’re putting patients first by reviewing and streamlining our regulations so we can:

Reduce unnecessary burden
Increase efficiencies
Improve the beneficiary experience

 
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health care costs medicare e-mail documentation

Legal Advocacy To Improve Care For Older Adults With Complex Needs

Author/s: Hooper, Sarah, Parekh, Ami, Fabiny, Anne, Teitelbaum, Joel

Legal advocacy is a recognized strategy to address social factors that influence the health of populations with complex care needs. Such advocacy can ...

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Elderly care elder abuse social workers home care dementia medicare elderly aged

Dietary Supplement Ingredient Advisory List

The FDA Dietary Supplement Ingredient Advisory List is intended to quickly alert the public when the FDA identifies ingredients that do not appear to be lawfully included in products marketed as dietary supplements.
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Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS)

Electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), also called electronic cigarettes, e-cigarettes, vaping devices, or vape pens, are battery-powered devices used to smoke or “vape” a flavored solution which usually contains nicotine. The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) recognizes the...

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The Growing Cyber Threat To Physician Practices

Author/s: Shryock, Todd

Right now, medical practices are being attacked by cybercriminals. Emails are being sent in the hope a practice employee will click on a link that will install ransomware, hackers are exploiting security flaws in medical equipment with internet connections, and...

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Submit a Suggestion for a New Evidence Review

What health care decisions are you struggling with? Would a review of the scientific evidence help inform this decision? Share your ideas with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) Program. AHRQ will use these ideas to determine the focus of...

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primary health care evidence-based medicine

Cannabidiol (CBD) - What we know and what we don't

Author/s: Grinspoon, Peter

Cannabidiol (CBD) has been recently covered in the media, and you may have even seen it as an add-in booster to your post-workout smoothie or morning coffee. What exactly is CBD? Why is it suddenly so popular?
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Disseminated Gonococcal Infection

Author/s: Florez-Pollack, Stephanie, Mauskar, Melissa M.

A 20-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a rash involving the arms, legs, trunk, and scalp, which had erupted that morning . . .
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Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

Author/s: Bhandari, Shruti, Kumar, Rohit

A 35-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of abdominal pain, headache, and brown urine . . .
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Sexually Transmitted Infections

This collection features the best content from AFP, as identified by the AFP editors, on sexually transmitted disease and related issues, including chlamydia, genital herpes, gonorrhea, human papillomavirus, and syphilis. New research may affect the interpretation and...

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sexually transmitted infections human papillomavirus

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