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A total of 42.0% of the study sample reported ever receiving a pneumococcal vaccine, with rates below this threshold in those ages 18 to 44 years (32.7%), men (39.0%), and those with a college degree (36.7%), among other groups, researchers found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2017/10/03/1.htm
3 Oct 2017
Preventive care still on during COVID-19
COVID-19 may foster innovation in primary care as physicians describe various strategies to reconnect with patients, such as leveraging telemedicine visits to also explain the practice's coronavirus-related safety protocols, or systematically reviewing their panels to flag at-risk patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/preventive-care-still-on-during-covid-19.htm
1 Nov 2020
New thinking about Alzheimer's diagnosis
New technology and biomarkers have contributed to the detection of Alzheimer's disease, but clinicians are skeptical about the value of a diagnosis without the ability to treat the condition.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/11/new-thinking-about-alzheimers-diagnosis.htm
1 Nov 2019
Best practice advice says generics can improve adherence, save money
Clinicians should prescribe generic medications instead of more expensive brand-name medications when possible, an ACP committee decided.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2015/11/24/2.htm
24 Nov 2015
Managing medication adherence
That most nonadherent patients are willfully rejecting doctors' orders might seem shocking. But physicians have to accept it in order to encourage patients to accept their advice. Digital health tools may offer potential aids in solving matters of adherence.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/03/adherence.htm
1 Mar 2017
Combination treatment for COPD associated with lower rate of exacerbations versus usual care
Patients taking fluticasone furoate-vilanterol had a rate of 1.74 moderate or severe exacerbations per year versus 1.90 per year in the usual care group, an industry-funded trial has shown.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2016/09/13/1.htm
13 Sep 2016
Managing patients' medications effectively
As the number of patients with chronic diseases grows, medication optimization is as important as ever to improve outcomes, decrease costs, and improve quality of life.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/01/managing-patients-medications-effectively.htm
1 Jan 2021
Long-term medications often discontinued during hospitalization
Patients taking medication for chronic diseases risk those prescriptions being discontinued when they are hospitalized, especially if they are admitted to an intensive care unit, a new study found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/30/6.htm
30 Aug 2011
‘Gold standard’ underused for substance misuse
While effective medications to treat opioid addiction are available in primary care, few physicians prescribe buprenorphine or naltrexone, and few would obtain the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/gold-standard-underused-for-substance-misuse.htm
1 Nov 2020
Immunization is everyone's issue
ACP convened an Advisory Group to discuss barriers to adult immunization, with the goal of identifying potential ways for ACP to address them on a population health level.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/10/immunization-is-everyones-issue.htm
1 Oct 2019