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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Individuals identified through electronic medical record (EMR) periodic surveillance with either diagnosed with HCV and either not engaged in treatment or not completed treatment, as well as those needing additional testing (SVR or high-risk re-testing). were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

When you think about getting your groceries, going to doctor’s appointments, going to religious services, if that’s important to you. Then I would say any clear deficits in thinking, vision, physical mobility, big new diagnoses, those; certainly cognitive changes, because that’s a really big one in terms of risk.

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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

GeriPal

So, for example, everyone who was diagnosed with an advanced or metastatic lung cancer had a prognosis on the order of months. And now when I think about the clinic at Duke, when we’re really running on all cylinders, we can get ourselves up to a five, six, seven week wait for a new palliative care referral.