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Relationship between Social Risks and Diabetes Metrics in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Using a multiple logistic regression, patients who gave high-risk answers to social risk domains of housing risk (OR 0.68), financial risk (OR 0.60), food insecurity (OR 0.64), and transportation needs (OR 0.62) were significantly less likely to meet the D5 metric compared to patients giving low risk answers (all p-values <0.001).

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Relationship between Social Risks and Colorectal Cancer Screening/Surveillance in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures CRC screening metric is met if colonoscopy in last 10 years, flexible sigmoidoscopy in last 5 years, Cologuard in last 3 years or FIT testing in last year; CRC surveillance metric is met if colonoscopy performed in recommended time interval for patients with family history colon cancer or previous precancerous polyp.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting/Population studied/Intervention: A case management program (CMP) for people with complex needs was implemented in four primary care clinics of an urban area. Having more consultation time and establishing a relationship of trust with people helped to address their unmet social needs.

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

The American Thoracic Society’s 2015 study, “The Relationship of Mucus Concentration (Hydration) to Mucus Osmotic Pressure and Transport in Chronic Bronchitis,” found that clearing excess mucus is a significant factor in protecting the lungs from “inhaled infectious and noninfectious challenges.”

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What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

I’m sort of seeing them in clinic for consideration of palliative radiation, they have a lot going on. But I think where it ends up causing problems is just if they’re going to have many sessions, transport to and from, and just the overall cost that can be essentially not feasible for the hospice.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Episode Learning Objectives After listening to this episode, learners will be able to: Illustrate the relationship between narrative medicine and healing relationships. What the term gestures towards is the centering of the ‘story’ in healing relationships. The show notes for this episode were written by Sudarshan Krishnamurthy.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. So delivering those month visits in clinic, often in tandem with their other oncology appointments.