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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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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

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. Chi-square and odds ratios were used to detect racial differences by screening type.

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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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Factors Associated with Annual Vision Screening in Diabetic Adults: Analysis of the 2019 National Health Interview Survey [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Determine the association(s) between receiving an annual eye exam and various economic, social, and geographic factors assessed in the 2019 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) among adults with diabetes in the continental United States. Outcomes were reported as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

President in November support a "Medicare for All" style single-payer health insurance program, this issue emerged during the Democratic primary debates as one option for extending coverage to the uninsured and reducing health care administrative costs. Although neither of the major party nominees for U.S. He pointed out that 93% of U.S.

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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

GeriPal

In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. Stacy: We’re using anxiety, baseline anxiety, as our screening. Alex: So that’s not our prototypical screening ESAS question. And yet there are reasons for caution.

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. Ricky 11:23 Yeah. So rewind a few years. Emily 41:59 Sure.

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