July 18th, 2013
BNP-Based Screening + Collaborative Care to Prevent Heart Failure?
John Ryan, MD and Kenneth McDonald, MD
Kenneth McDonald discusses findings from the STOP-HF randomized trial of BNP-based screening versus usual primary care for preventing new-onset heart failure.
September 29th, 2010
How Are You Managing Co-Morbid Conditions?
Joseph S. Ross, MD, MHS
Some of you may remember a 2005 paper in JAMA, in which relevant clinical practice guidelines were applied to a hypothetical 79-year-old woman. This woman had multiple co-morbid conditions, otherwise known as multimorbidity, including COPD, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, hypertension, and osteoarthritis. The authors surmised that, if guideline-directed care were followed, this hypothetical patient would be […]
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