Clinical Guidelines for Primary Care

• The Year’s Notable Guidelines: Highlights for Primary Care   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews key guidelines from 2024 that should not be missed by primary care clinicians.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 08, 2025
• UTI in Primary Care: New Guidelines   The latest evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of recurrent UTI are reviewed here.
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 16, 2024
• Pre-op Evaluations: Does This Patient Really Need One?   Primary care clinicians are frequently asked to conduct evaluations for patients scheduled for surgery. But which patients really need this, how extensive should it be, and should any meds be held?
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 13, 2024
• Heard of ApoB Testing? New Guidelines   Dr Neil Skolnik highlights the key points for primary care clinicians from a new consensus statement on apolipoprotein B testing.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 14, 2024
• New Diagnostic Criteria for Alzheimer's Will Change Practice   With new blood biomarker tests, Alzheimer's disease will no longer be just a diagnosis of exclusion.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 10, 2024
• New First-Line Therapies for Migraine   Most migraine management takes place in primary care, so it's time to become familiar with the new first-line CGRP-targeting agents.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 07, 2024
• New Vitamin D Recs: Testing, Supplementing, Dosing   Dr Neil Skolnik hits the highlights of the Endocrine Society's new guidance on who needs a vitamin D supplement (and who doesn't) and why testing isn't recommended.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 11, 2024
• Acute Sore Throat: When to Reach for the Antibiotics Complicated or uncomplicated, low or high risk, test or no test? Here's the consensus approach to acute sore throat in adults.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 17, 2024
• Prostate Cancer Screening: What Does Your Patient Fear Most?   Dr Neil Skolnik distills available recommendations (including recent AUA guidance) to help clinicians and patients reach the preference-sensitive decision to skip or undergo prostate cancer screening.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 22, 2024
• Managing CKD in Primary Care: Latest Guidelines   An explosion of new treatments can stave off the need for dialysis in many patients with CKD.
  Medscape Family Medicine, April 10, 2024
• Atrial Fibrillation: Guideline Update for Primary Care   The latest guidelines address rate vs rhythm control, anticoagulation, and how to respond to device-detected AF.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 08, 2024
• What's Changed in Asthma Treatment? Quite a Bit   For primary care, Dr Neil Skolnik highlights the essential asthma treatment changes in the latest GINA guidelines, and the four questions to ask to assess asthma control.
  Medscape Family Medicine, March 01, 2024
• Most Important Guideline Changes of the Year for Primary Care   The past year's top guideline changes that affect day-to-day practice of primary care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, January 17, 2024
• The Truth About Vaping   The idea that vaping is harmless is going up in smoke. What would you tell your own kids or grandkids about e-cigarette use?
  Medscape Family Medicine, December 11, 2023
• What Not to Prescribe to Older Adults and What to Use Instead   What's in? What's out? In the latest list of potentially inappropriate drugs, the Beers guidance emphasizes clinical judgment.
  Medscape Family Medicine, November 08, 2023
• Fatty Liver: A Primary Care Approach   Neil Skolnik reviews the latest guidelines for a condition that PCPs see a lot of but may be failing to notice.
  Medscape Family Medicine, October 09, 2023
• Chronic Coronary Disease: The Latest Recommendations   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the latest guidelines for managing patients with stable coronary artery disease in primary care.
  Medscape Family Medicine, September 12, 2023
• Breast Density Reporting: What It Means for Clinicians   The FDA now requires breast density reporting on all mammogram results sent to offices and patients.
  Medscape Family Medicine, August 14, 2023
• Medicine & Music: A Harmonious Journey With Dr Jeremy Faust   Dr Neil Skolnik talks with physician-musician Dr Jeremy Faust about how he balances a love of music and a busy emergency medicine career.
  Medscape Family Medicine, July 05, 2023
• Menopausal Symptoms: What Works? What Doesn't?   Dr Neil Skolnik reviews the hormonal and nonhormonal options for relief of the vasomotor symptoms of menopause.
  Medscape Family Medicine, June 20, 2023