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

Annals of Family Medicine

Instrument Patient-reported social needs collected as part of the 2020 Kaiser Permanente (KP) National Social Needs Survey. Population Patients aged 24-64 years who were eligible for cervical cancer screening per USPSTF guidelines (N=1,917).

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Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic increased critical levels of turnover of healthcare workers in interdisciplinary primary healthcare (PHC) teams, including family physicians, nurses, social workers, and others. Studies in exclusively PHC settings exploring well-being and related positive outcomes (e.g.,

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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

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The effect of being uninsured on cancer screening practices in Puerto Rico [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Unadjusted bivariate analysis was used to assess the relationship between insurance status and cancer screening using Chi-square for categorical variables, and two sample Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney rank-sum test for continuous variables.

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Alcohol Free for Five Years Today

Mere Mortal MD

I never got a DUI, showed up work drunk or hungover, or screamed at my husband or family, and yet, it was an unhealthy habit I was slowly losing control over. So on the morning of June 15th, 2020, I made a conscious decision to stop putting alcohol in my body. I told myself that because it was red wine—which of course is healthy!

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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes. Regarding clinical education changes since March 2020, 47% (n=16) were satisfied.

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The role of visualization, previous help-seeking, and intentions to seek help from a PCP for depression:An outcome evaluation [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

ObjecConduct an outcome evaluation exploring the relationships among the effects of condition, ability to visualize HS, previous professional HS, and PCP HSI at T2. Setting: MTurk online cloud research toolkit (Feb-March 2020). Study Design: Outcome evaluation of RCT comparing HS and C using pre-post design (2 weeks).

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