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Good Clinician Communication Improves Continuity of Care for U.S.-Born Latino Patients but Not for Immigrant Latino Patients [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: Repeated cross-sectional study design, multivariate linear and logistic regression models Dataset: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, 2007-2021 Population: NHW (75,670), U.S.-born

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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. Objective: To validate the use of OASI among patients with knee OA to predict TKA in Veterans Health Affairs-Corporate Data Warehouse (VHA-CDW) administrative dataset. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective Cohort using Cox proportional hazard models with time-dependent exposures and covariates.

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Do Food Packaging Health Claims Correlate with Healthiness Or Mislead our Patients? [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007). But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods?

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Using EMR data to describe administrative workload of primary care providers in Nova Scotia, Canada [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome measures: Average number of prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests per encounters among primary care providers in Nova Scotia from 2007 to 2022. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007. Results: Clinicians with 500 or more patient contacts had an average of 2.7 On average, each encounter resulted in 1.7 (0.7)

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Teens aren't small adults: Rethinking surgical treatment of adolescent clavicle fracture

Medical Xpress

That changed after a 2007 study reported better shoulder function after plate-fixation surgery. Until about 15 years ago, most clavicle fractures were allowed to heal with minimal medical intervention. Although the study participants were adults, the rate of surgical treatment subsequently increased across all age groups.

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). It was then externally validated in a contemporary US population (EAST-PC data).

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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Lower Repeat BP in Primary Care [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). Context: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) are being studied for their potential role in syndromes of overactive sympathetic tone.