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Health care navigation and access among Latino farmworkers: A qualitative study assessing individual perspectives [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: This qualitative study conducted semi-structured focus groups among 24 Spanish-preferred Latino farmworkers from January to March 2024. The focus group sessions were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The analysis was conducted entirely in Spanish by bilingual investigators and research assistants.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

A 2024 analysis projected that by 2040 a shortage of 58,000 primary care clinicians (including nurse practitioners and physician assistants) will occur. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1 hours) allocated to preventive care.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Laudenslager, is a chronic metabolic disease with highly complex pathophysiology—”and we are programmed to regain the weight we lose with lifestyle measures.” Published in May 2024, the FLOW trial , for instance, looked at patients with diabetes and advanced kidney disease.

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

GeriPal

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? He died in 2024. What do I do?

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Optimizing Nutrition in Aging: A Podcast with Anna Pleet, Elizabeth Eckstrom, and Emily Johnston

GeriPal

ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. But at any age, like, as Emily said, it is so important to pay attention to nutrition and healthy eating because it’s not just about, oh, chronic disease prevention or even treatment and management. For any MOC questions, please email moc@ucsf.edu.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And in the omnibus bill that was last passed, the waiver was extended through the end of 2024. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law Blog

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. Some insights come from an op-ed Kennedy wrote in the Wall Street Journal on September 5, 2024, setting forth some of his plans for a healthier America. This seems like a reasonable goal, as most people can probably agree that America is not healthy. Andrew J Shattock et al.,