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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

Context: Despite primary care providers’ (PCPs) ability to effectively treat depression, encouraging individuals to seek and return to treatment is challenging. 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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Ambulatory Behavioral Health Referral Patterns in the Setting of Chronic Medical Conditions [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: Determine referral patterns from primary care (PC) to integrated behavioral health (BH) for populations with and without multiple CCs; Identify post-referral treatment initiation patterns for integrated BH among patients with and without CCs.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Focus on the Community While the health sector is where illness and ailments are often treated, a person’s health largely manifests outside of the health sector and is impacted by their community and environment. Published December 2, 2020. Accessed December 9, 2020. Harvard Medical School Primary Care Blog.

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Disparities in Post-COVID Conditions among Persons with Disabilities: Findings from Primary Care Patients, 2019-2022 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Persons with disabilities were more likely to experience serious illness, death, and adverse consequences by the COVID-19 pandemic. Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Measurements. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment. Because we bring it up a lot. Ariel, you want to take that question?

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The burden of mental health on Canadian primary care following Covid-19 [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The time horizon was anchored in January 2012: pre-pandemic period was defined as January 2012 to March 2020, and the pandemic period as April 2020 to June 2022.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life.