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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. Objective: To assess the impact of a question on need for assistance with social risk factors identified through routine screening.

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A podcast on the evaluation and management of penetrating neck injuries in children

PEMBlog

I wouldn’t necessarily do this in a Level 1 trauma center — I have surgeons available — but it might be useful if you have to transport a kid quickly to a trauma center. If there’s an impaled object — leave it, transport intact, and remove it in the OR. Is the patient’s airway patent? Are they protecting and maintaining it?

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Why are So Many Teens and 20-Somethings Today Anxiety-Ridden?

Doctor Rachel

I don’t know how it seems to be going in your home or the town or city you live in, but I am seeing an epidemic of anxious, stressed out teens, in my office and in my community. have lost much of our communal connection. And I am not alone. since the 1940’s. 25% of teens in the U.S. Specifically, Western countries, like the U.S.,

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Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic amplified HRSN disparities, adding stress to social support systems. Logistic regression model- binary indicator for a positive screen.

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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Common Sense Family Doctor

Health professionals who survive a nuclear explosion ( 90% of those in Hiroshima were killed instantly ) would likely face a catastrophic loss of communications, impassable transportation routes, and “ risk their lives amid destroyed infrastructure, dangerous radioactivity, and limited healthcare facilities and supplies.”

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Advanced Imaging of Children in the ED: Ultrasound, CT, and MRI

PEMBlog

So it’s the name for all of the cool imaging studies that we order on all of our patients, and they are essential for doing our daily jobs and identifying serious conditions like traumatic brain injuries, appendicitis, and stroke. And what are some of the trends that you’re seeing regarding how often we’re performing these studies?

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You don’t need X-Rays in a child with bronchiolitis, croup, asthma, or first time wheezing

PEMBlog

Some families, particularly those with limited means, ask for testing and treatment they believe will expedite resolution of their child’s illness so as to mitigate child care and transportation issues, loss of work or pay or some combination of all of these. However, the impact of such resources has not yet been deeply explored.

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