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The role of access to care and health insurance on HPV vaccination among adults aged 18-45years [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Purpose To examine the role of health insurance and access to care on human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine initiation among adults aged 18-45 years while also comparing results between younger (18-26years) and older adults (27-45years). Results Overall, there was an increase in the prevalence of HPV vaccination from 2018 to 2019.

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Low-Value Opioid Prescribing Trends for Acute Low-Back Pain in Rural Virginia Between 2019-2021 [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective A) Evaluate LVOP in Virginia during 2019-2021, and B) determine variation in LVOP for rural patients and those with low income in Virginia from 2019-2021. It is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted LVOP, particularly among vulnerable communities. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective cohort study.

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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Cervical Cancer Screening Differences Between Black and White Women: An Examination of HPV and Pap Test Utilization. [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset We utilized the 2019 and 2021 National Health Interview Survey data (NHIS), which collects information about health, healthcare access, and health behaviors, including CCS. Study Design and Analysis This was an observational retrospective study examining Black and White women as the predictive variable and CCS outcomes.

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Churning out of insurance among patients with diabetes served in US Community Health Centers [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health insurance instability may be particularly challenging for patients with diabetes who need regular chronic care management to reduce the risk of diabetes complications. Outcome Measures: Churning was defined as having two or more consecutive uninsured visits after the baseline insured visit.

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A Brief Mindfulness Intervention to Lower Repeat BP in Primary Care [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). Blood pressure control is a major quality KPI impacting reimbursement from insurers for primary care practices.