Update on Asthma Management Guidelines.

The Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) was established in 1993 and publishes a yearly global strategy to improve asthma awareness, prevention and management of asthma worldwide, based on a review of the most updated evidence. The current 2024 GINA update advises that all adults and adolescents with asthma receive inhaled corticosteroid (ICS)- containing medication and should not be treated with short acting beta agonist (SABA) alone. The 2024 GINA strategy divides treatment into two 'Tracks": Track 1 (preferred Track), the reliever is as-needed combination low dose ICS-formoterol; Track 2 uses SABA as the reliever along with a separate ICS inhaler.

Assessment of Medical Education on Transgender Health: A Scoping Literature Review.

Little is known about how physician learners are assessed following educational interventions about providing gender-affirming care to transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. The inclusion of learner assessments with educational interventions is essential to understand and measure health professionals' knowledge and skills. We seek to describe how the medical literature has approached the assessment of learners following educational interventions about TGD health.

Comparing Electronic Health Record Domains' Utility to Identify Transgender Patients.

Purpose: Earlier literature has reported on the utility of diagnostic codes and demographic information for identifying transgender patients. We aim to assess which method identifies the most transgender patients utilizing readily available tools from within the electronic health record (EHR).

Methods: A de-identified patient database from a single EHR that allows for searching any discrete data point in the EHR was used to query (ICD-10) diagnostic codes and demographic data specific to transgender patients from January 2011 to April 2019.

Sexual Orientation Demographic Data in a Clinical Cohort of Transgender Patients.

Background: There are specific issues regarding sexual orientation (SO) collection and analysis among transgender and nonbinary patients. A limitation to meaningful SO and gender identity (GI) data collection is their consideration as a fixed trait or demographic data point.

Methods: A de-identified patient database from a single electronic health record (EHR) that allows for searching any discrete data point in the EHR was used to query demographic data (sex assigned at birth and current GI) for transgender individuals from January 2011 to March 2020 at a large urban tertiary care academic health center.