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Tackling the Challenges of Shoulder & Knee Pain in the Primary Care Setting

E. David Litwack, Ph.D. Elizabeth Mansfield, Ph.D. Jeffrey Shuren, M.D., J.D. Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD Disclosure forms provided by the authors are available with the full text of this letter at NEJM.org. This letter was published on May 27, 2015, at NEJM.org. 1. Evans BJ, Burke W, Jarvik GP. The FDA and genomic tests — get-

ting regulation right. N Engl J Med 2015;372:2258-64. 2. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration. Optimizing FDA’s regulatory oversight of next generation sequencing diagnostic tests — preliminary discussion paper. Silver Spring, MD: FDA, December 29, 2014 (http:// www.fda.gov/downloads/medicaldevices/newsevents/workshops conferences/ucm427869.pdf ). 3. Food and Drug Administration. Device classification under Section 513(a)(1)(de novo) (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/denovo.cfm?ID=DEN130011). 4. Food and Drug Administration. Premarket approval (PMA) (http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpma/pma .cfm?id=952). DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1504604 Correspondence Copyright © 2015 Massachusetts Medical Society.

corrections Acute Appendicitis — Appendectomy or the “Antibiotics First” Strategy (May 14, 2015;372:1937-43). In the fourth paragraph of the “Areas of Uncertainty” section (page 1940), the second sentence should have begun, “A typical protocol (Table 2) included 48 hours of intravenous antibiotics  .  .  .  ,” rather than “.  .  .  24 hours .  .  .  .” The article is correct at NEJM.org. Case 10-2015: A 15-Year-Old Girl with Graves’ Disease and Psychotic Symptoms (March 26, 2015;372:1250-8). In the third paragraph of the Pathological Discussion (page 1257), the levothyroxine dose given in the final sentence should have been 125 μg, rather than 125 mg. The article is correct at NEJM.org. Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion after Cardiac Surgery (March 12, 2015;372:997-1008). In Table 3 (page 1005), in the Liberal Transfusion Threshold column, the denominator for Ischemic event should have been 991, rather than 99, and the percentage should have been 14.0, rather than 114.0. The article is correct at NEJM.org.

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The course will be offered in Dedham, MA, on June 10. It is presented by New England Baptist Hospital. Contact New England Baptist Hospital, 125 Parker Hill Ave., Boston, MA 02120; or call (617) 754-5692; or see http://www. nebh.org/for-health-professionals/june-cme-course.

Mayo Clinic The following courses will be offered in Rochester, MN, unless otherwise indicated: “Aeschi 8: Bearing the Struggle: Exploring the Challenges Facing Clinicians Working with Suicidal Patients 2015” (Vail, CO, June 11–13); “Fourth Annual Comprehensive Sports Medicine Update and Board Review” (Minneapolis, June 17–20); “Controversies in Women’s Health” (Chicago, June 18–20); “Cardiac Rhythm Device Summit: Implantation, Management, and Follow Up” (Chicago, June 26– 28); “Complementary and Integrative Medicine: Where the Rubber Meets the Road” (Wisconsin Dells, WI, July 9–11); “29th Annual Echocardiographic Symposium at Vail: State-ofthe-Art Review, Live Scanning, Clinical Decision-Making, and Multimodality Imaging” (Vail, CO, July 20–23); “Mayo Clinic Oncology Review” (Minneapolis, July 25); “Success With Failure: Strategies for the Evaluation and Treatment of Heart Failure” (Dana Point, CA, Aug. 10–12); “2015 Mayo Clinic Updates in Urology and Case Conference” (August 14 and 15); “20th Annual Mayo Cardiovascular Review Course for Cardiology Boards and Recertification” (Aug. 22–26); “Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants & Primary Care Providers” (Sept. 16–18); “Delivery Science Summit 2015” (Sept. 16–18); “30th Biennial Mayo Clinic Department of Dermatology Symposium: The O’Leary Meeting” (Sept. 25 and 26); and “Mayo Clinic Pediatric Days 2015” (Chicago, Oct. 5 and 6). Contact the Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905; or call (800) 323-2688 or (507) 284-2509; or fax (507) 284-0532; or see http://www.mayo.edu/cme; or e-mail [email protected].

25th World Congress of Lymphology The conference will be held in San Francisco, Sept. 7–11. It is jointly presented by the International Society of Lymphology, the National Lymphedema Network, and the Sentinel Node Oncology Foundation/Sentinel Lymph Node Working Group. Contact the Congress Secretariat, 232 E. 500 N., Valparaiso, IN 46383; or call (219) 465-1115; or fax (219) 548-8619; or email [email protected]; or see http://lymphology2015.com/home.

International Academy of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions 2015 The “20th World Congress on Heart Disease” will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 25–27. Contact Dr. Asher Kimchi, International Academy of Cardiology, P.O. Box 17659, Beverly Hills, CA 90209; or call (310) 657 8777; or fax (310) 659 4781; or e-mail [email protected]; or see http://www.cardiologyonline.com. the journal’s web and e-mail addresses

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