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Health Trends Across Communities: Engaging Healthcare Systems, Public Health and Community in a Statewide Public Health Tool [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Objective: To use an iterative, community-engaged process to inform the development of the publicly-available HTAC dashboard. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive.

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Health Trends Across Communities: a healthcare system-public health collaboration to advance health equity across Minnesota [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Public health data in the Unites States often report on a limited number of conditions, are unable to identify trends in small geographic regions, or are not timely enough to inform current policy. Objective: To use summary EHR information to support efforts to improve community health and health equity in Minnesota.

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Implementation of a novel linkage of primary care electronic medical record data with hospital data in South Eastern Ontario [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Currently, primary care data, community data, and hospital data are not linked in Ontario, resulting in a disconnect in continuity of care. Datasets: Primary care EMR data from the Eastern Ontario Network and acute care, post-acute, and community mental health and addictions data from the Shared Health Integrated Information Portal.

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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. Setting: Northeast Ohio.

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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. No reviews mentioned involving members of the Deaf community. Popay et al.’s

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The Patient Voice is Value Added in Integrating Relational Equity into Practice [Participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In response to a call initiated by CIHR in 2023, inviting patient, public, and community participation, the Patient Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) responded with a Report on March 25, 2024. Results: The Pan-Canadian Patient Council met electronically to co-analyze and interpret the themes.

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Patient Perceptions of a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

There is limited research on implementation of LM in medically underserved communities. Study Design and Analysis Survey; t-test and chi-square tests to evaluate variation by race and income status, approximated by having Medicaid, based on the clinic’s goal of reaching underserved community members.

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