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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Deaf experience many barriers when accessing health care and services. A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. ’s (2006) narrative synthesis was used to analyze and report the results.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

So it felt like it was being part of this huge kind of change in the whole environment and the whole experience of that community. Is that what you’re seeing as a palliative care provider now or. I mean, treatment is really best done in a chronic or continuity setting, whether it’s in a primary care setting or some other.

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RFK Jr. Hires Autism Skeptic To Look Into CDC Autism Data

Physician's Weekly

He has no record in the scientific community of doing valid work,” said Dr. Walter Orenstein , a former CDC immunization director. The two had access to the CDC database in 2004 and 2006. The VSD includes data from a dozen large healthcare networks. It added that “HHS will follow the science — wherever it leads.”

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

This post first appeared on March 6, 2018, during the first Trump administration's failed attempt to eliminate the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). health agency has supported and produced volumes of groundbreaking research on how to make health care safer, less wasteful, and more effective.