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

Annals of Family Medicine

Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Patient-reported social needs were obtained from a nationally administered survey. housing insecurity) affect screening behaviors.

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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. Not all regulatory authorities authorize virtual prescribing of controlled substances.

Finance 130
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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. 32% (n=11) reported patient satisfaction with telemedicine transitions. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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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

Study Design: Rapid Systematic Review Data Sources: CINAHL, Embase, Medline, and Cochrane CENTRAL were searched from January 1st, 2020 (indicating their data was collected during the COVID-19 pandemic) to July 1st, 2023 (date of review completion). Studies in exclusively PHC settings exploring well-being and related positive outcomes (e.g.,

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Alcohol Free for Five Years Today

Mere Mortal MD

So on the morning of June 15th, 2020, I made a conscious decision to stop putting alcohol in my body. I bought every quit lit (short for literature about quitting drinking) book she recommended, some of my favorites being Drink, The Intimate Relationship with Women and Alcohol , by Ann Dowsett Johnston, and This Naked Mind , by Annie Grace.

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Prescribing ADHD Meds by Telehealth Does Not Alter Risk for Substance Use Disorder Overall

Physician's Weekly

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. A total of 7,944 patients were included in the sample. Vinod Rao, M.D., from Massachusetts General Hospital, said in a statement.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

png]</p> <p><span style="font-family:ubuntu; font-size:12px">​</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">By putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients, we can easily see the comfort and trust our patients have developed with their general dentists.