End-of-life talks in primary care
Health practitioners need to be prepared, and help prepare patients for end-of-life discussions.
All articles by Debra Clements Coats, RN, BSN, CRNP
Infant safety: Part of the primary-care job
Primary-care clinicians need to educate parents of young children on dangers such as suffocation, car safety, falls, burns and choking.
Social media in medicine is here to stay
About 34% of consumers in a 2012 survey reported using social media to search for health information.
Prescribing pain meds the right way
Just 8% of participants in a study assessing how primary care patients who are prescribed opioids are tracked underwent urine testing, only half made regular visits to their prescribers and 23% received more than one early opioid refill.
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