Applied Evidence
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Applied Evidence
Chest pain—tools to improve your in-office evaluation
Your challenge: Properly evaluate and manage patients at low cardiac risk, while promptly transferring or referring the minority of patients who...
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Applied Evidence
Beyond chronic pain: How best to treat psychological comorbidities
When chronic pain is accompanied by disturbances in sleep, a psychiatric disorder, or substance misuse, a single agent with multiple symptom...
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Applied Evidence
Addressing the unique issues of student athletes with ADHD
The impact of ADHD depends on an individual’s symptoms and chosen sport, which, along with specific medication recommendations and cautions, help...
Case Reports
Clinical Inquiries
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Clinical Inquiries
What are the benefits and risks of inhaled corticosteroids for COPD?
EVIDENCE-BASED ANSWER: Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), either alone or with a long-acting β agonist (LABA), reduce the frequency of exacerbations...
Commentary
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Commentary
The patient who changed the way I practice family medicine
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Commentary
40 years of helping family physicians refine their care
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Commentary
Erratum
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Commentary
How often does otitis media cause fever?
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Commentary
Primary care is first-contact care
Photo Rounds
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Photo Rounds
Blisters on an elderly woman’s toes
Our patient had already been hospitalized out of concern for cellulitis. Her history and lab work proved the cause to be far more benign.
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Photo Rounds
Lesions on feet and hands
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Photo Rounds
Lesions on tongue
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Photo Rounds
Lesion on side of tongue
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Photo Rounds
White patch on tongue
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Photo Rounds
Large pelvic mass
Practice Alert
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Practice Alert
USPSTF: What’s recommended, what’s not
Twenty-six recommendations were issued last year. Two screening procedures previously unsupported by good evidence are now firmly advocated; 4...
PURLs
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PURLs
Finally, a way to relieve cancer-related fatigue
A 4-week course of American ginseng, taken while patients are undergoing radiation or chemotherapy, can reduce cancer-related fatigue.
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PURLs
A simple way to reduce catheter-associated UTIs
The administration of a prophylactic antibiotic when a surgical patient’s urinary catheter is removed can cut the rate of urinary tract infections...
Watch & Learn
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Watch & Learn
Elliptical excision
Watch & Learn A how-to video series