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

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. remain between 15-30%, costing $150 billion annually. for CA, 0.85

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Using technology to reclaim our time

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

Patients depend on our clinical knowledge as well as our recommendations and relationships with our specialist partners.</span></span></p> Nelson further explains, &ldquo;I believe a key component to success for case acceptance is providing education to my staff and the offices I work with.

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FDA Issues Unsupported Safety Warning Regarding Surgical Robots for Cancer Treatment

FDA Law Blog

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reminding patients and health care providers that the safety and effectiveness of robotically-assisted surgical (RAS) devices for use in mastectomy procedures or in the prevention or treatment of breast cancer have not been established. In this safety communication, FDA states: The U.S. 21 U.S.C. §

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Episode 275: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 19 – Reframing the Opioid Epidemic: Anti-Racist Praxis, Racial Health Inequities, and Harm Reduction

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Between 2007 – 2019, Black individuals experienced a higher death rate for opioid overdose deaths than any other racial or ethnic group. A more Western perspective on health care emphasizes the role of physicians and health care providers and marginalizes the role and contributions of doulas and midwives.

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Episode 232: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 15 – Housing is Health: Racism and Homelessness – Clinician + Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This is the last of three episodes interrogating the relationships between race, place, housing, and health. Dr. Kushel and Mr. Watts remind healthcare providers to speak out about the structural causes of homelessness. Published April 5, 2019. January 18, 2019. Calac, Victor A. Can you refer your patient there? 3.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Univariate relationships between COVID-19 vaccination intention and sociodemographic variables are shown in Table 1. Immunization, 2019. Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures. 29% (n=86) of the participants were undecided about getting vaccinated. 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7)