Internal Medicine

General Primary Care

Questions discussed in this category

How would you approach counseling an older patient with significant hearing loss and nonadherence to use of hearing aids?

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How have the results of the U.S. POINTER study involving multidomain lifestyle interventions to protect cognitive function influenced your practice?

Was the change that was noted in the trial clinically meaningful?Study reference: Baker et al., PMID 40720610

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How do you approach the management of newly discovered prediabetes in adults over the age of 65?

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How would you approach hormone replacement therapy for perimenopause in a patient with increased risk factors for VTE?

Risk factors such as hereditary thrombophilia without personal thrombosis, family history of thrombophilia or thrombosis, etc.

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In patients with iron deficiency due to history of gastric bypass or IBD, would you consider oral iron therapy if the iron deficiency anemia is mild?

The patient can otherwise tolerate intermittent oral iron therapy.

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Do you routinely recommend transition to dual PO antibiotic coverage for strep species and MRSA, for patients with purulent cellulitis and in the absence of culture data?

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What factors influence your decision to start salt tablets, urea, or a vaptan first in the management of a patient diagnosed with SIADH?

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Papers discussed in this category

Blood advances, 2024 Jul 09

Decision theoretical foundations of clinical practice guidelines: an extension of the ASH thrombophilia guidelines.

Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28

American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.

BMC medical informatics and decision making, 2010 Sep 16

A regret theory approach to decision curve analysis: a novel method for eliciting decision makers' preferences and decision-making.

Clinical gastroenterology and hepatology : the official clinical practice journal of the American Gastroenterological Association, 2024 Jun 12

AGA Clinical Practice Update on Management of Iron Deficiency Anemia: Expert Review.

American journal of hematology, 2025 Feb 11

Ferric Carboxymaltose (FCM)-Associated Hypophosphatemia (HPP): A Systematic Review.

Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association, 2023 Sep 30

Study design and methods: U.S. study to protect brain health through lifestyle intervention to reduce risk (U.S. POINTER).

JAMA, 2025 Aug 26

Structured vs Self-Guided Multidomain Lifestyle Interventions for Global Cognitive Function: The US POINTER Randomized Clinical Trial.

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