Chronic Care

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are less likely to visit the emergency room when they receive care from a nurse practitioner or physician assistant than a physician.

Obese children and adolescents may be more likely to see dangerously high blood pressure.

New mothers with diabetes who experience difficulty with lactation may have maternal glucose intolerance.

Retail clinicians should inform patients with active asthma that they may be at greater risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm.

Retail clinicians looking to prescribe PPIs should make sure to weigh their benefits against potential risks.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants working in retail clinics may want to encourage their patients to stick to the DASH diet to lose weight, lower cholesterol, and manage or prevent diabetes.

Retail clinicians should use a school calendar to help pinpoint when children with asthma may present with worse symptoms.

Retail clinicians can help alert women of child-bearing age that if they are obese and diabetic prior to getting pregnant, they are more likely to have a baby with autism.

Recommendations from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the US Preventive Services Task Force do not give retail clinicians clear direction on whether they should screen children for high cholesterol.

Chronic fatigue syndrome may be far more prevalent among teenagers than previously thought.

In the wake of Winter Storm Jonas, retail clinicians should highlight some of the dangers associated with snow shoveling for their patients with heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol.

Retail clinicians have their work cut out for them on improving medication adherence among patients with high cholesterol.

One way retail clinicians can encourage patients to make lifestyle changes is to share some of the risks associated with diabetes, including that the condition is linked with early development of disabilities.

It is pivotal for the contemporary clinician to understand the drug–drug interactions of medications used for the most common conditions seen in primary care settings.

Rising hypertension-related hospital admissions provide an opportunity for retail clinicians to focus on treating and monitoring patients with high blood pressure.

Many patients with depression overeat on a regular basis as a result of their condition.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants in retail clinics have their work cut out for them, as one-fifth of children and adolescents need better control over their cholesterol.

Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are prime health care providers for chronic burn management.

Some medications need a little help to be effective.

Patients with high systolic blood pressure may be at risk for different diseases than those with high diastolic blood pressure.

Data from the CDC reveal that new cases of diagnosed diabetes among adults are dropping.

As retail clinics continue to grow in popularity, patients will be increasingly turning toward retail-based nurse practitioners and physicians assistants for help in lowering high cholesterol.

While the prevalence of hypertension has remained relatively stable over the years, hypertensive patients have been gaining better control over their blood pressure.

With as many as 1 in 12 US residents having asthma, retail clinicians are primed to help this patient population manage their chronic condition.

Decision aids allow patients to take a proactive approach to their own care.

Recently, retail clinics have expanded their treatment areas to include chronic disease management, and new research suggests that this will have a positive effect on patients with chronic disease in the United States.