Mississippi does not mandate synchronous audio-visual consultations for non-controlled medications, but most providers conduct them anyway to establish rapport and assess contraindications that written questionnaires might miss
Raj Dedhia, a double board-certified facial plastic surgeon
Comorbidities defined by International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes were treated as binary indicators and included type 1 diabetes mellitus (E10), type 2 diabetes mellitus (E11), arterial hypertension (I10), coronary artery disease (I25), atrial fibrillation or flutter (I48), chronic heart failure (I50), obstructive sleep apnea (G47.3), dyslipidemia (E78), chronic kidney disease (N18), and acute pancreatitis (K85)
In early 2025, researchers at the University of North Carolina published a letter in Diabetes Care formally defining this practice
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