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Kaiser Permanente study shows screening efforts cut colorectal cancer deaths in half

Permanente Medicine

These results spotlight the need to erase health disparities and remove barriers such as lack of awareness about screenings and checkups. The electronic health record system automatically prompts care teams to schedule patients for health screenings. Read the full story from the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research here.

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

GeriPal

Emmy: That, to me, is the ideal checkup-type situation. And I’ve been to some presentations that use that same breaking bad news model for having these driving conversations, as are used in palliative care. Or have electronic health record prompts so people remember to ask it? ” Eric: Oh. Absolutely.

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