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Compass Rose for Generating Community-based Referrals via Epic: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention/Instrument: The screening tool used in the pilot sites included five questions to assess needs related to transportation, food insecurity, utility payments, housing, and a final question to assess patients’ willingness to receive help.

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A Multi-Sector Pilot Design in the Northeast Ohio QI Hub: Engaging Community Based Organizations to Advance Diabetes Equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: We conducted focus groups, key informant interviews, and in-depth interviews with leaders from ODM, CBOs, and regional health systems, triangulated with thematic review of community health needs assessments.

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Breaking Barriers: Perspectives on Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Hispanic/Latino Adults of Mexican Origin [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants with clinical trial experience stated that they would recommend clinical trial participation to their friends and families. Participants emphasized the role of family support and their reliance on adult children for decision-making and assistance with transportation and interpretation.

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Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention/Instrument: The intervention includes a short survey to determine patients’ needs with respect to transportation, food insecurity, financial difficulty related to utility payments, and housing. The final question asked patients, who have at least one risk factor, if they would like assistance with their need(s).

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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been proved to decrease the cardiovascular adverse events in several large randomized controlled trials (RCTS), but evidence limited to patients with type 2 diabetes and ASCVD. Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Barriers to and Facilitators of Participant Engagement in a Multi-level Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) at an urban academic medical center in the Midwest. Transportation and scheduling challenges also hindered engagement. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g., All participants are referred to receive free produce ("standard of care").

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