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Implementation and Uptake of the Virginia Mental Health Access Program [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. Results: 20.2% Results: 20.2% vs. 47.4%, p<0.0001).

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Cessation of Public Water Fluoridation Would Increase Tooth Decay

Physician's Weekly

“These findings suggest that, despite the potential harms of excessive fluoride exposure, fluoridation at safe levels offers both individual and societal benefits that would be at risk,” the authors write. The researchers found that dental caries prevalence and total number of decayed teeth were estimated to increase by 7.5

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

GeriPal

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.

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Storycatching: Podcast with Heather Coats and Thor Ringler

GeriPal

So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Depends om my audience. Eric: And what are you doing as far as a research project? How are you looking into this? Heather: Yeah.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Just an extraordinary cast of individuals who were really so incredibly inspiring. And then the final category, the third category is what we called the dignity conserving repertoire, which really has to do with kind of the spiritual, and psychological landscape and makeup of that individual. I mean, I was very much a clinician.

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Is it time for geriatricians to get on board with lecanemab? Jason Karlawish and Ken Covinsky

GeriPal

So like I said, I got to meet Thor, I believe it was May, 2016. You would love this because in that story that was in that patient CHR was a particular song that had meant a lot to this individual. Depends om my audience. Eric: And what are you doing as far as a research project? How are you looking into this? Heather: Yeah.

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Prognosis Superspecial: A Podcast with Kara Bischoff, James Deardorff, and Elizabeth Lilley

GeriPal

God, it must have been like 2015, 2016. This is a particularly interesting topic because we know that individuals with dementia have a high rate of entering nursing home. That just leads to issues that can make home care very difficult for these individuals. Eric 10:09 So you’re reassured on that concern there.

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