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"It All Revolves Around the Pain": Patient Experiences of Navigating Care for Long COVID Pain Symptoms [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Persistent pain is experienced among nearly half of the patients with long COVID (LC). Objective: To document the lived experience of patients with LC pain, including how they access and receive healthcare, to improve services for LC pain evaluation and treatment.

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Corewell Health primary care providers barriers, knowledge and attitudes toward firearm safety counseling and training [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

It is thought that physicians, specifically those in primary care, may be in a unique position to counsel patients on firearm safety. In the spring of 2023, a firearm safety counseling module was assigned to all PCPs employed at Corewell Health facilities in the Grand Rapids area.

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Patient and Caregiver Use of Patient Portal Features [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

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Collecting data on key social determinants of health in primary care: a multi-site implementation evaluation [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Social data that is collected in a standardized fashion can be used to improve individual patient care by uncovering and then addressing social needs, to stimulate the development of new integrated health and social programs, and be used to identify inequities across an organization. Clerical staff and provider 96.7%

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Poverty screening implementation in a Canadian primary care clinic: acceptability and feasibility for patients and providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context While poverty is a risk factor for many chronic conditions, when it is recognized by care providers social screening can be used to positively impact patients’ health. Joseph’s Primary Care Clinic in Saint John, NB, Canada in 2023. Of screened patients, 94.4%

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting Show Notes by Alec J. Describe difficulties and examples of how to measure unconscious race bias in medical practice.

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3 Ways AI Can Detect Vital Signs From Your Face

The Medical Futurist

These measure the basic functions of one’s body, helping clinicians assess the general health and recovery progress of patients. Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone.