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New - Obesity Epidemic in the USA

The Institute of Medicine has just announced a collaborative 4-part documentary series on the obesity epidemic in the USA. The IOM collaborated with HBO, CDC, NIH, and Kaiser Permanente to produce the series.

You can sign-up to host a screening and community action kits are available.

Information is at the links below:


What's New!

Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly being used in health care to improve patient care and as a potential solution to reduce inappropriate variations in care. Guidelines should be evidence-based as well as based upon explicit criteria to ensure consensus regarding their internal validity.

The use of guidelines must always be in the context of a health care provider's clinical judgment in the care of a particular patient. For that reason, the guidelines may be viewed as an educational tool to provide information and assist decision making.

 

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