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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Cervical cancer remains a significant health concern and screening is crucial for early diagnosis. Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs. Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. in screened vs. 1.15

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Racial Differences Affect Breast Surgery Timing

Physician's Weekly

They investigated data from electronic health records of women diagnosed with stage I–III breast cancer between 2004 and 2020 who underwent upfront surgery. Individuals identifying as Black had about half the odds of receiving surgery within 60 days of diagnosis (OR = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.47–0.56), miles (IQR: 5.9,

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A Long Time Coming: DEA Regs Finally Authorize Schedule II Prescription Partial Fills

FDA Law Blog

Three years after that letter, DEA proposed a rule to amend its regulations consistent with CARA on December 20, 2020. In addition, a pharmacist could partially fill a schedule II prescription issued to patients in a Long Term Care Facility or who have a terminal medical illness diagnosis. 78,282 (Dec. The Final Rule a. b)(5)(i)). (2)

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. Mobile phone penetration has finally exceeded 90% in low- and middle-income countries.

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POLST Evidence and Update: Kelly Vranas, Abby Dotson, Karl Steinberg, and Scott Halpern

GeriPal

As you mentioned, it was published in JAGS in 2020, and we really started from the time of inception of POLST, so in the early 1990s, up until about February 2020 was the date that we cut off. And we were able, because of the way OHSU has the registry and POLST link had just been integrated into our electronic medical records.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Again, as Greg said, where the individual chooses what works best for them. 60% of all medical costs have nothing to do with your health diagnosis. To Susan’s point.