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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Setting or Dataset: 2019-2020 Virginia Department of Medical Assistance Services database (demographic, enrollment, and claims data). Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017. We determined personal adherence rates by calculating the mean adherence rates of the medications prescribed to each individual.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

The initial RCT published on physician coaching in JAMA in 2019 showing that coaching improves quality of life. ” Eric: It strikes me that there also seems to be a difference between coaching a team, like many of us are familiar with, and this individual coaching, although there may be group coaching as well. We learn in context.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

Mike: 2019. Eric: 2019. I was one of the authors on that paper, and tried to do an update in 2019, but for various reasons it fell through. First is we had a podcast recently about gabapentin, and I know we’d mentioned Mike’s prior study in Annals of Internal Medicine on off-label use of gabapentin.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

Inspired by Dani Chammass paper in Annals of Internal Medicine titled, Wishing for a no show we talk about countertransference: start by asking yourself, Why am I having difficulty? The general clinic is called the Internal Medicine Recovery Engagement Program, and our clinic is the Palliative Recovery engagement Program, or PrEP.