Letter
Dermatology
Khawar Hussain, Nada Khalil, Amir Amini, Neil P. Patel
Summary: The UK elective recovery plan advocates for the availability of teledermatology (TD) in all services that receive urgent suspected skin cancer referrals. Although TD currently plays an important role in some NHS dermatology services in triaging referrals, there is insufficient evidence to support its effectiveness for accurate diagnosis and triage of skin lesions, requiring further evaluation.
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Dermatology
Robert Skaggs, Brett Coldiron
Summary: The study found that the number of skin biopsies among Medicare beneficiaries increased by 153% since 1993, while the number of skin cancer treatments only increased by 39%. The data suggests that APPs may be contributing to the rising costs of skin cancer management by conducting biopsies on a significantly higher number of benign lesions.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Justin Porter, Cynthia Boyd, M. Reza Skandari, Neda Laiteerapong
Summary: This study aims to quantify the time needed for preventive, chronic disease, and acute care for adult patients in the US. The results indicate that primary care providers often do not have enough time to provide guideline-recommended care, but a team-based care model can significantly reduce the time requirements.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Emily Rhodes, Claire Kendall, Robert Talarico, Elizabeth Muggah, Caroline Gerin-Lajoie, Christopher Simon, Taylor McFadden, Daniel Myran, Manish M. Sood, Peter Tanuseputro
Summary: In this retrospective cohort study, the enrollment with a PCP practice and frequency of visits were found to be lower among physicians compared with a matched general population of nonphysicians. Further understanding of individual, system, and medical cultural factors associated with these results is needed.
Article
Oncology
Maren Hedtke, Rodrigo Pessoa Rejas, Matthias F. Froelich, Volker Ast, Angelika Duda, Laura Mirbach, Victor Costina, Uwe M. Martens, Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz, Michael Neumaier, Verena Haselmann
Summary: The analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is close to being implemented into standard care for colorectal cancer (CRC) patients, but there are limitations and challenges that need to be addressed. While the results show improved request behavior and reliable diagnostic performance of liquid profiling (LP), there are still issues such as lack of clinically relevant ctDNA thresholds and appropriate time points for LP requests.
MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Oncology
Marta Manczuk, Irena Przepiorka, Magdalena Cedzynska, Krzysztof Przewozniak, Elwira Gliwska, Agata Ciuba, Joanna Didkowska, Pawel Koczkodaj
Summary: Cancer prevention is highly important but still underutilized by primary care physicians (PCPs). Only 30% of PCPs provide cancer prevention advice routinely, whereas 70% do that only sometimes. PCPs' actual role in cancer prevention is highly unexploited, with only a few of them routinely inquiring about important risk factors such as smoking history, screening programs, alcohol consumption, physical activity levels, and diet habits. Efforts should be made to raise awareness and enable PCPs to utilize their undeniable role in cancer prevention.
Article
Dermatology
Valeria De Bedout, Natalie M. Williams, Ana M. Munoz, Ana M. Londono, Manuela Munera, Natali Naranjo, Lina M. Rodriguez, Alejandra M. Toro, Feng Miao, Tulay Koru-Sengul, Natalia Jaimes
Summary: The study aimed to determine the impact of educational training on skin cancer course and dermoscopy use among primary care physicians in rural areas of Colombia, which resulted in improved diagnostic accuracy and confidence levels. However, the achievement of the secondary objective was hindered by loss of follow-up of participants.
DERMATOLOGY PRACTICAL & CONCEPTUAL
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
William Galanter, Tewodros Eguale, Walid Gellad, Bruce Lambert, Maria Mirica, John Cashy, Alejandra Salazar, Lynn A. Volk, Suzanne Falck, John Shilka, Elizabeth Van Dril, Jennie Jarrett, John Zulueta, Julie Fiskio, John Orav, Diana Norwich, Samuel Bennett, Diane Seger, Adam Wright, Jeffrey A. Linder, Gordon Schiff
Summary: The study aimed to develop a method to define primary care physicians' personal formularies and examine differences among physicians at 4 institutions; evaluate associations with patient, physician, and practice site characteristics; and empirically derive and examine variability among the top 200 core drugs prescribed at the 4 sites. Results showed variability in both personal formulary size and core drug usage among physicians and institutions, suggesting the potential for safer and more appropriate prescribing practices through comparisons and identification of outliers.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Johnny Huynh, Sahil A. Alim, David C. Chan, David M. Studdert
Summary: Comparing the rates of inappropriate prescribing between nurse practitioners and primary care physicians, it was found that they were virtually identical. Although nurse practitioners were overrepresented among clinicians with the highest and lowest rates of inappropriate prescribing, discrepancies in rates tended to be larger across states rather than between these practitioners within states.
ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2023)
Article
Primary Health Care
Franklin Niblock, Hoon Byun, Yalda Jabbarpour
Summary: Physician and practice characteristics, such as being a family physician and working in rural settings, increase the odds that a physician will adopt point-of-care ultrasound in their practice, despite the proven benefits.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FAMILY MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alix Arnaud, Ellison Suthoff, Katie Stenson, Brian Werneburg, Paul Hodgkins, Vijayveer Bonthapally, Jeffrey Jonas, Kellie Meyer, Ken O'Day
Summary: Zuranolone demonstrated greater benefit compared to placebo and antidepressants in treating major depressive disorder, with positive NNT values indicating robust benefit and negative NNH values suggesting reduced harm. These findings support the potential benefit-to-risk profile of zuranolone for patients with MDD.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Miaomiao Zhao, Yan Zheng, Jian Chu, Zhenhua Liu, Fenglin Dong
Summary: This study developed a novel non-invasive method to predict sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer by analyzing ultrasound imaging characteristics and peripheral blood T-cell subsets. The constructed combined model showed good performance and can be used to guide clinical decisions in breast surgery.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Natalie Privett, Shanice Guerrier
Summary: The study found that providing USPSTF-recommended preventive services to 2500 adult patients would require 8.6 hours per day, encompassing 131% of a physician's available time. While there are fewer recommendations in 2020 compared to 2003, they require more physician-patient contact hours per working day.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Katherine Ann Gielissen, Emily Pinto Taylor, David Vermette, Benjamin Doolittle
Summary: This study identified factors contributing to career satisfaction and life satisfaction among primary care physicians through qualitative interviews. The findings revealed that intrinsic factors such as love for work and value-oriented beliefs, as well as extrinsic factors like fulfilling social networks, play critical roles in physician thriving. The study proposed a model for physician thriving based on the identified critical themes and discussed barriers and opportunities for wider application in the physician community.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jessica R. Cataldi, Laura P. Hurley, Megan C. Lindley, Sean T. O'Leary, Carol Gorman, Michaela Brtnikova, Brenda L. Beaty, Lori A. Crane, David K. Shay, Allison Kempe
Summary: The study examined family physicians' and general internal medicine physicians' perceptions, knowledge, and practices regarding high-dose inactivated influenza vaccine (HD-IIV) and live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV). Many physicians believed HD-IIV is more effective for patients >= 65 years, and there was a misconception that ACIP had preferential recommendations for HD-IIV.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2021)