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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. Results: To date, more than 225,000 patients have been screened for increased hereditary conditions, such as cancer risk, through these tools in primary care.

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Is DCIS Cancer or Not?

AMMD

My first breast cancer scare was in 2014, when they discovered calcifications for the first time during a routine mammogram. I also did a screening blood test to look for circulating tumor cells, which I will have an article on this soon! A simple blood test to screen for cancer risk in patients is growing in demand.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Is there a screening tool that we can use, or just questions that you ask older adults around driving safety? We and many others have tried to come up with a short, validated screening tool. I think it was 2014, but we did a survey of driving rehabilitation specialists in the U.S. “How are things going?”

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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

This episode will help you better prepare for and manage children with inborn errors of metabolism in the Emergency Department. As always, I’m your host, Brad Sobolewski, and this episode focuses on the management of children with metabolic disorders who present to the emergency department. Pediatr Rev. doi: 10.1542/pir.2014-0122.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It is a screening? And the screening questions would just allow you to know that. Who does the assessments, who does screening? Is it an assessment?

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Kate: No, it’s a tough answer in part because, as Scott mentioned, this was being implemented somewhere in the 2014/15 range after funding and building and that pilot year. Did they screen charts? Kate: This is where maybe that bottle of alcohol’s needed. laughter] Eric: Enough said. Did they call the teams?

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Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

Elders Climate Action, and let me just tell you a little bit about who we are, was created in 2014 as the project of a 501(c)(3), Elders Action Network. And so if you’re talking about healthcare providers and healthcare systems, start with waste and do an education with people of how to manage the waste. And you start small.