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AI at the office: Are clinicians prepared?
AI might result in more accurate, efficient, and cost-effective care. But it’s possible it could cause harm.
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Pop this question to improve medication adherence
Asking patients about their out-of-pocket medication costs can improve adherence and strengthen the patient-clinician relationship.
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Half of teens drop below obesity cutoff with semaglutide
The semaglutide findings are “historically unprecedented with treatments other than bariatric surgery.”
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Evidence of TAVR benefit extends to cardiogenic shock
Patients in cardiogenic shock should not be excluded from transcatheter aortic valve replacement, despite some early adverse event risk, new...
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Redo-TAVR in U.S. database yields good news: Outcomes rival first intervention
A large transcatheter aortic valve transplant (TAVR) database shows a second procedure performs about as well as native TAVR.
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Hyperbaric oxygen may improve heart function in long COVID
“We should open our minds to thinking about this treatment for another indication. That is the basis of precision medicine. We have this treatment...
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High cholesterol in seniors: Use statins for primary prevention?
Statins may be reasonable to prescribe, even given the risks that have been linked to statins, such as that for muscle pain.
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Bundled strategy increased preteen lipid screening
An intervention included in-office testing, provider education, and EMR updates.
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Surprisingly more nonsustained VT shown in HCM using extended ECG monitoring
Nonsustained ventricular tachycardia, an important arrhythmia used every day in clinical practice to make decisions, is “much, much more prevalent...
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New AACE type 2 diabetes algorithm individualizes care
Splitting the glucose-lowering algorithms into “complications-centric” and “glucose-centric” graphics is new.
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Stroke scale cutoff might not be ideal guide for ordering CTA and detecting large vessel occlusions
If the goal is not to miss any LVOs, there is no NIHSS score below which these do not occur.