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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

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. ’s (2006) narrative synthesis was used to analyze and report the results. Popay et al.’s

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Politics and practice guidelines: a volatile mix

The Health Policy Exchange

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Health services research in the United States has historically been the "poor cousin" of biomedical research in federal funding and support. When the AHRQ-supported U.S.

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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

A new Kaiser Permanente study showed how an integrated colorectal cancer screening program cut cancer deaths in half, reduced incidence by nearly a third, and erased racial health disparities in screenings, incidence, and death rates. underscoring the need to raise awareness, screen proactively, and improve treatment.

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

GeriPal

There was some at the time, which was 2006 so also, it’s been a while since the guidance has been updated and other guidance for other viral infections like hepatitis B and C. Eric 18:59 What is the recommendation currently for HIV screening in older adults or in non older adults? You know, those age limits have been removed.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Eric: And looking back at that time, what do you think the healthcare system could have done to help with that? So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over.