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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Patients in both groups averaged approximately 12 ED visits, 5.7

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Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

The qualitative phase consisted of focus group interviews exploring patients’ experiences and the impact of primary care functional features on health, with integration through meta-synthesis and joint display for meta-inferences. Setting: Primary care settings in Shanghai, China. 1.32), confirmed by instrumental variable tests.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

png]</p> <p><span style="font-family:ubuntu; font-size:12px">​</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">By putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients, we can easily see the comfort and trust our patients have developed with their general dentists.

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Episode 223: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 14 – Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 14: Race, Place, and Health: Clinician and Community Perspectives Show Notes by Alec Calac February 15th, 2022 Summary: This episode highlights how racism manifests in the built environment, and how community and individual-level efforts can mitigate these inequities. Be curious.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary You know when you walk out of a patient’s room and have that sense, “This isn’t going to go well.” The patient is sick and getting sicker, and refuses to let you talk with family or other members of her inner circle. Rather, most of us live and make decisions in relationship to one another.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

As Alex Lee says on our podcast today, all prognostic models will be wrong (in some circumstances and for some patients); our job is to make prognostic models that are clinically useful. I think this is a really difficult topic to talk about with patients. She has a point. Prognosis is inherently uncertain.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.