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- New The Continuum of Care: NPs and PAs and the Treatment of Thyroid Disease
Physician assistants and nurse practitioners are in excellent positions to not only see the signs of hypothyroidism but to optimize treatment of patients who are already on levothyroxine therapy. By appropriately assessing signs of thyroid dysfunction and knowing the right diagnostic tools, patients’ symptoms can be relieved and clinical consequences such as elevated lipids can be avoided and potentially
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- Managing Hypothyroidism: Exploring the Variables of Treatment Success
Mild hypothyroidism affects over 4% of the U.S. population and often goes untreated, or is complicated by a suboptimal treatment regimen. Physicians and pharmacists can greatly influence the success of patient outcomes through proper diagnosis, monitoring of hormone levels, and the encouragement of patient adherence with a treatment regimen. Clinical outcomes in thyroid disease can also be affected by drug variability...more
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