Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cervical cancer burden is high in the Chinese and Latinx communities. Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g.,

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Education Screening Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Postural sway velocity as a screening tool in diabetic peripheral neuropathy represents a potential early marker of balance impairment and fall risk. In one study that was not presented at the PNS annual meeting, the researchers aimed to assess whether evaluating balance and gait could serve as a viable screening tool of DPN.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered Screening Utilities 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives. Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system.

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Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health centers (CHCs) provide critical safety-net health care for millions of underserved patients in the U.S., The Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling (PCCC) measure evaluates the quality of contraceptive counseling. At baseline, few patients were screened with SINC (range: <1% - 36%).

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Patient-Centered Screening Electronics Utilities 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Should it? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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Mental Health Physicals Patient-Centered Patients 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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Primary Care Family Physician Preventative Care Preventive Care 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD “Older patients … with multiple health conditions underscore the challenge of delivering compassionate, scalable, and affordable care to the aging U.S. population,” said Drs. Ansari and Davidoff. ” Because adults over 65 will represent 23% of the U.S. Ansari and Davidoff.

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Management 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

In addition, despite practice guidelines recommending post-anthracycline echocar­diograms in adults receiving more than 250 mg/m2 of doxorubicin, only a minority of providers report obtain­ing routine screening echocardiograms after comple­tion of anthracycline-based chemotherapy regimen with a cumulative dose of 300 mg/m2,” they added.

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Routine Screenings Patient-Centered Screening Provider 52

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S. Key findings include: 1.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

As an experienced physician leader, she is known for always going the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. ” Dr. She has held a variety of leadership positions within the organization dedicated to maintaining and advancing high-quality care that delivers value and superior outcomes for patients.

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Appointment Board-Certified Patient-Centered Integrated Care 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Patient-Centered Patients IT Medical 52

BMJ

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

NHANES is designed and conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the US. However, screening diabetes and prediabetes management delivery are still a challenge in practice for the entire US population. Did doctors’ advice facilitate people’s practice of lifestyle change?

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Diabetes Management Healthcare Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 23, 2025

Today, we explore four fascinating studies highlighting innovative approaches to reducing medication use and improving patient outcomes. Patients received brochures detailing the risks of gabapentinoids, nonpharmacologic alternatives, and a proposed deprescribing regimen (see here for the brochure ). in the usual care group.

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Specialization IT Patient-Centered Medical 120

GeriPal

JUNE 20, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Clinic 121

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 13: Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health Show Notes by Naomi F. Understand how engaged community-based work, centered on trust and accountability, has supported the health of communities served by Oakland, CA’s Asian Health Service.

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Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

To address the growing demand for health care services combined with workforce shortages, utilizing health care innovations that improve patient health and restore the joy in medicine for physicians and clinicians is more essential than ever. Connecting patients with needed care quickly creates a win-win for patients and care teams.

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Utilities Chronic Condition Healthcare Patients 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 25, 2025

By building an integrated, patient-centered colorectal cancer screening program, we doubled screening rates, cut deaths by 50%, and made major strides in closing racial disparities in outcomes. What we found is truly impressive: Screening rates among KPNC patients nearly doubled — from 37.4%

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Screening Preventive Care Preventative Care Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Patients may feel like falls are just part of normal aging. What are ways we should screen for falls? If you want to do a deeper dive into some of the articles we discuss, take a look at the following: An awesome JAMA review by Sarah on fall risk assessment and prevention in community-dwelling adults. Sarah 00:28 Thanks so much.

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IT Screening Patient-Centered Community 125

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

There is a special emphasis on the use of public health models that prioritize harm reduction and person-centered care to prevent drug-related fatalities and curb the opioid epidemic along lines of race and class. This discussion is hosted by Ashley Cooper, Sudarshan Krishnamurthy, and new team member Gillette Pierce.

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Community Patient-Centered Mental Health Board-Certified 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

He also found gaps, including very few studies of patients with lung disease, and little impact of trials on quality of life. Your research is a lot in this patient population, right? In their communities? Let’s say, family-centered care for heart and lung disease wasn’t really going on a few decades ago.

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Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? Welcome back, William. Delighted to be here.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Clinic 130

GeriPal

JUNE 23, 2022

Cancer screening is designed to detect slow growing cancers that on average take 10 years to cause harm. The benefits of mammography breast cancer screening rise with age, peak when women are in their 60s, and decline thereafter. This is about cancer screening in older adults. Summary Transcript Summary. Mara: Thank you so much.

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Screening PCP PCP IT 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. Word of mouth spread rapidly.

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Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Research is exploding. Welcome back to GeriPal, Stacy.

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Patient-Centered Community IT Medical 91

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Alex 01:23 And we’re delighted to welcome DorAnne Donesky, who is a palliative care nurse practitioner at Queen of the Valley Medical center in Napa and professor emeritus at the UCSF School of Nursing. The collaboration is actually the center. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions.

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Screening IT Families Family 121

The Physicians Foundation

MAY 20, 2025

The Physicians Foundation announces the 2025 recipient of the Drivers of Health (DOH) Fellowship Program, urges physicians to screen patients for DOH BOSTON, May 21, 2025 – Today, The Physicians Foundation reinforces its efforts to help physicians address drivers of health (DOH) to improve a person’s overall health.

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Chronic Disease Screening Transportation Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MAY 8, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Weve covered psychedelics on the podcast beforefirst in 2019 with Ira Byock, where we explored their potential role in medicine , and then again in 2023 with Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, and Theora Cimino, focusing on the reasons to approach psychedelic use in patients with caution. Then fast forward a year.

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Illness IT Patient-Centered Patients 109

GeriPal

MAY 22, 2025

Jenny Chen is a palliative care fellow at Yale who regularly sings for her seriously ill patients. Jenny reached out to us because she plays music regularly for her patients, and she said, you should do a podcast about music. And I performed for many palliative patients, and that’s when I started to understand.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Board-Certified 98

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So I think the first reason that we saw and felt the opportunity was ripe for updating was that some of us had come across some anecdotal examples of patients expressing some offense to that terminology. And I was asking this patient about if he had filled out an advanced directive. Is the patient in your descriptor?

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 110

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? He is associate professor at the University of Wisconsin and medical director of their Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Who should we be screening as far as.

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Primary Care Diagnosis Screening IT 97

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. Senate SB 43 – Patient Price Transparency Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Sen.

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Insurance Management Hospital Vaccination 130

GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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IT Community Patient-Centered Medical 100

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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