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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. vital signs, bloodwork laboratory findings, and other physical test data) as a means of guiding care over time. Lengerich, A.

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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

NHANES collects data through interviews and physical examination covering two years in the US civilian, non-institutionalized population. Our study sample included 1039 eligible adults who were overweight or obese and reported prediabetes from pooled NHANES (2013-2018). Of those, 76.8%

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Insurers Promise to Speed Up Delays in Health Care Approvals

Physician's Weekly

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Officials are also working to improve access to physical therapy, diagnostic imaging and outpatient surgery. Talk is cheap,” Gaffney said.

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Episode 262: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 18 – Remedying Health Inequities Driven by the Carceral System

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. Today, the carceral system plays a pivotal role in modern-day eugenics and in reproductive and family control.

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Promoting Compassionate Emergency Care for Children with Autism

PEMBlog

Encourage families to bring All About Me sheets or care cards that summarize critical accommodations. Borrow from the restaurant world: Use pagers or texting systems to allow families to wait in less stimulating environments (e.g., What you can do: Ask families whats worked (or hasnt) in the past. 2018 May/Jun;79(3):17r11506.

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PEMPix 2024 Online Case #1: Mission: SPACE

PEMBlog

At that visit, his physical exam was normal. During this ED visit, the family notes that the child has had 1 week of vomiting whenever he eats. During this second ED visit, his physical exam including vital signs and mental status remains normal. 51,2 (2018): 126-128. 2019, doi:10.1136/bcr-2018-228790 Jafrani, Ryan et al.