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What every clinician should know about COVID-19 vaccine safety
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Monitoring vaccine safety is a vital part of the nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 vaccines become available, the public’s knowledge and confidence in their safety, both initially and during extended use, is an important part of a successful national vaccination effort. CDC remains committed to ensuring that public health officials, healthcare providers, and the public have accurate and timely information on the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Can proactive value-based care and ACOs have an impact on amputation prevention?
Podiatry Today
In many countries, there is a single payer system, in which the government pays the cost of health care and the providers are on salary. In this model, there is no billing as providers merely provide the services mandated by the government for patients. Great Britain, Canada and Australia are examples of countries that have single payer systems.
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Secrets of speed: 7 smart steps to getting faster
Lower Extremity Review
A secret to improving speed is careful preparation. It’s as important, or even more so, than the training technique itself (there are many). Unfortunately, there are many prerequisites to building speed that too often go ignored, or are not properly implemented before adding speed workouts. Skipping these key requirements can lead to injury, ill health, and overtraining. We’ll outline them here and look for additional readings at the end of this article.
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COVID-19 and the future of evidence-based medicine
Medical Economics
The COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges across the health care ecosystem. Hospitals and health systems are once again faced with onslaughts of critically ill patients amid staffing shortages and capacity constraints. By now, however, clinicians are armed with better knowledge and experience learned from the early stages of the pandemic.
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Nearly 1 in 4 physicians report personal attacks on social media, small survey shows
Healio
Almost one-quarter of physicians said they were personally attacked on social media, and one in six female physicians reported being sexually harassed, results from a small survey showed.
Tricia R. Pendergrast, BA, a medical student at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, and colleagues said their study was the first they knew of that investigated physician experiences with online harassment.
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Formula 7® is the only paraben free soluble tolnaftate antifungal microemulsion fortified with cosmetic ingredients and bactericidal agents. Formula 7® is formulated with cosmetic ingredients that rehydrate and restore the natural physical properties and appearance of the skin and nail with each use.
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Therapeutic shoe audits are back
Podiatry Management
The Public Health Emergency shows no
signs of coming to a close,
and cases, after decreasing over the late spring
and summer of 2020, are again rising. Yet in early August 2020, CMS
announced that audits that had been
suspended due to the PHE would restart. As you can imagine, this created quite a buzz during the late summer of 2020.
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3 strategies for medical practice excellence in the era of COVID-19
RevCycleIntelligence
The COVID-19 pandemic has moved the benchmarks for medical practice excellence. What once worked in a pre-pandemic world may not be adequate for the COVID-19 era or may need to be tweaked in order to address the challenges underscored or exacerbated by the virus.
That was the general theme of MGMA’s Medical Practice Excellence Conference, which was held virtually last week.
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. CURRENT RESEARCH ARTICLES OF INTEREST
The impact of COVID-19 on foot and ankle surgery in a major trauma centre
The Foot
COVID-19 has had a significant impact on orthopaedic surgery globally. This paper aims to evaluate the impact of COVID-19 on foot and ankle trauma in a major trauma center.
A retrospective observational study of prospectively collected data was performed. All foot and ankle trauma patients over a 33 week period (1st December 2019–16th July 2020) were analyzed. All patients with trauma classified by the AO/OTA as occurring at locations 43 and 81–88 were included.
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Burnout among health care professionals: A call to explore and address this underrecognized threat to safe, high-quality care
National Academy of Medicine
The U.S. health care system is rapidly changing in an effort to deliver better care, improve health, and lower costs while providing care for an aging population with high rates of chronic disease and co-morbidities. Among the changes affecting clinical practice are new payment and delivery approaches, electronic health records, patient portals, and publicly reported quality metrics — all of which change the landscape of how care is provided, documented, and reimbursed.
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Immediate effect of insoles on balance in older adults
The Foot
In recent years, fall prevention in older adults has received considerable attention in healthcare. Among many interventions, insoles are considered cost-effective and easily adopted tools to improve balance in older people. Numerous studies have verified the immediate effects of insoles on balance in older adults.
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