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Firearm-Related Violence in the Pediatric Population
Children, particularly adolescents, are dying from firearm-related injuries. Screening for firearms, early recognition of firearm-related concerns, appropriate referrals, and follow-up are crucial to the safety of our patients and their families. Clinicians are strongly encouraged to address...
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Perinatal Depression: A Guide to Detection and Management in Primary Care
Introduction: Existing guidelines for primary care clinicians (PCCs) on the detection and management of perinatal depression (PD) contain important gaps. This review aims to provide PCCs with a summary of clinically relevant evidence in the field.
Methods: A narrative literature review...
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Outpatient randomized controlled trials to reduce COVID-19 hospitalization: Systematic review and meta-analysis
This COVID-19 outpatient randomized controlled trials (RCTs) systematic review compares hospitalization outcomes amongst four treatment classes over pandemic period, geography, variants, and vaccine status. Outpatient RCTs with hospitalization endpoint were identified in Pubmed searches through...
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Gold 2023: Highlights for Primary Care
The Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) has issued its 2023 annual report1. Compared with former versions, it has been significantly updated. Here, we summarize the most relevant changes for a Primary Care audience. The complete document can be downloaded for free from...
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Intranasal Naloxone for Opioid Overdose
In 2021, opioid overdose deaths exceeded 80 000 in the US.1 Naloxone, a competitive opioid receptor antagonist that reverses symptoms of opioid intoxication and overdose by displacing opioids from μ-opioid receptors, is a safe and effective medication for preventing opioid overdose death....
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Eye Infections
Eye infections are an important cause of vision loss worldwide. Patients with these infections are commonly seen by primary care providers, internists, emergency medicine specialists, hospitalists, and ophthalmologists. Each year in the United States alone, conjunctivitis accounts for more than...
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Common Painful Foot and Ankle Conditions: A Review
Importance: Morton neuroma, plantar fasciitis, and Achilles tendinopathy are foot and ankle conditions that are associated with pain and disability, but they can respond to nonoperative treatment.
Observations: Morton neuroma, consisting of interdigital neuronal thickening and fibrosis,...
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Frontotemporal dementia
Frontotemporal dementia should be considered in adults aged 50–75 years presenting with behavioural or language changes. After Alzheimer disease, it is the second most common cause of dementia among adults younger than 65 years.1 Frontal and temporal lobe degeneration results in behavioural or...
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Epley manoeuvre’s efficacy for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in primary-care and subspecialty settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Although previous studies have reported general inexperience with the Epley manoeuvre (EM) among general physicians, no report has evaluated the effect of EM on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) in primary care by using point estimates or certainty of evidence. We conducted this...
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