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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. Nearly all missed screens were attributed to forgetfulness (94.4%).

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

All right, and finally we have Yael Zweig, who is a geriatric nurse practitioner at NYU. It’s been revised in 2023. I think actually that’s a way to link the inpatient and the outpatient, because the inpatient measure domain 4 has a social vulnerability domain where you have to screen for social isolation.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. We welcome all professions, including but not limited to physicians, chaplains, social workers, nurses, nurse practitioners, case managers, administrators, and pharmacists. It is a screening?

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

Randy died February 26, 2023. What we ended up doing with this study was we used NLP to screen these 44,000 notes for 2,000 patients, 2,512. And we would screen it and then we would filter that down to sort of a select number of EHR passages that we thought were of high likelihood to have a goals of care discussion.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. They can be nurse if you want to. They can be advanced nurse practitioner. Malaz: Social worker, anybody.