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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

To address this crisis, China has launched the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program in 2009, which includes several elderly care initiatives.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

My take, and extrapolation, is that there are three reasons why healthcare has failed to evolve in usefulness of both our product (the care we deliver) and our technology (our EMRs), our customer centeredness and the value/cost relationship of the services we provide. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

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Is Rural Residence a Risk Factor for Preterm Birth in Iowa? [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. Instrument: Data was extracted from a detailed database of deliveries from May 2009 to the present. We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). The final dataset included 16,974 deliveries among 13,339 mothers.

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Dialysis vs Conservative Management for Older Adults: Manju Kurella Tamura, Susan Wong, & Maria Montez-Rath

GeriPal

This is my favorite article, Susan, that I talk about of M a nju is a New England Journal article that came out 2009. 2009, yeah, 2009. I’m going to go back to that new paper from 2009 which we’ll have linked to. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. One of my favorite articles.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

An end-of-life doula is a non-medical support person that provides a longitudinal relationship with aspects of medical, I mean, aspects of companionship, presence, holding space, some logistics, some practical help, decision making perhaps. All of this really turns into an emotional partnership with someone. John: Yeah. I would add, too.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

So, for instance, would it have made a difference if, as a requirement in this study, every single emergency department who was eligible to be in the intervention had to have a relationship with a n inpatient hospice for which discharge was immediately available to an emergency department? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.