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

Annals of Family Medicine

Increasing access to primary care clinicians who are better able to screen and treat pediatric mental health conditions can improve mental health and reduce unnecessary ED visits. of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. Results: 20.2%

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Cessation of Public Water Fluoridation Would Increase Tooth Decay

Physician's Weekly

The researchers found that dental caries prevalence and total number of decayed teeth were estimated to increase by 7.5 percentage points and by 25.4 million cases in the base-case scenario of eliminating fluoridation, with a loss of 2.9 million QALYs at a cost of $9.8 billion over five years.

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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. Primary outcome was quality of life. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? No difference in their primary outcome. Corita 04:32 Yep.