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COPD inhaler therapy: A path to success
Keys to therapeutic success include choosing the right device and drug regimen, providing rigorous patient education, and reducing environmental...
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A judicious approach to ordering lab tests
Following these guidelines to order fewer tests can improve health care quality and patient experience, while reducing wasteful costs.
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How to overcome hesitancy for COVID-19 and other vaccines
These evidence-based strategies (and list of do’s and don’ts) can help you to increase the likelihood of vaccine uptake in hesitant patients.
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Essential strategies and tactics for managing sickle cell disease
Key to patients’ well-being is the family physician’s watchfulness—through periodic lab testing and health checks and diligent application of...
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How to better identify and manage women with elevated breast cancer risk
This case-based review details screening and management strategies that can maximize the care you provide to women at heightened risk.
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A guide to GERD, H pylori infection, and Barrett esophagus
How long should you treat GERD with a PPI? When should you order an endoscopy or test for Helicobacter pylori? How might H pylori treatment...
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Tips for managing 4 common soft-tissue finger and thumb injuries
After examination and, in some cases, imaging, most of these injuries can be managed conservatively with splinting or injection. Some cases...
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Patients asking about APOE gene test results? Here’s what to tell them
This guidance can help shape the conversations you have with patients who want to understand the results of their gene and biomarker testing for...
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Hypertension—or not? Looking beyond office BP readings
Follow these strategies and tips for using home and 24-hour ambulatory measurements to more accurately assess a patient’s blood pressure.
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Managing TIA: Early action and essential risk-reduction steps
Your patient with a focal neurologic deficit is rushed to the ED for diagnostic imaging. Which initial and long-term interventions can best reduce...
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Benzodiazepine and Z-hypnotic stewardship
These agents are not first-line treatments for many of the conditions for which they are used. When they are used, there should be a plan in place...