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Incidence and Risk of Various Types of Arterial Thromboembolism in Patients With Cancer
CONCLUSION: In this observational study of an aggregated US patient population, those with newly diagnosed cancer had increased risk of ATE events. This risk was most elevated in a 330-day window around cancer diagnosis and was consistent across different types of ATE and cancer.PMID:33673912 | DOI:10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.05.045
Source: Clinical Colorectal Cancer - March 6, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Jiasheng Wang Yeseong D Kim Chang H Kim Source Type: research

Prompting Primary Care Providers about Increased Patient Risk As a Result of Family History: Does It Work?
Conclusions: No change occurred upon instituting simple, at-the-visit family history prompts geared to improve PCPs' ability to identify patients at high risk for 6 common conditions. The results are both surprising and disappointing. Further studies should examine physicians' perception of the utility of prompts for family history risk.
Source: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine - May 8, 2015 Category: Primary Care Authors: Zazove, P., Plegue, M. A., Uhlmann, W. R., Ruffin, M. T. Tags: Original Research Source Type: research