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An Innovative Approach to Enhancing Community Health Collaborations: A Community Engagement Directory [Participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. Profile data describing community-engaged projects and the academic and community partners involved is published to the web and publicly accessible.

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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants were recruited from two clinics in Flint, Michigan, a low-income urban community facing numerous health disparities. Study Design and Analysis: This cross-sectional study utilized self-reported baseline data from a longitudinal study.

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Lived experience of individuals with thalassemia in Eastern India [Allergy/Immunology]

Annals of Family Medicine

The study aimed to explore the lived experiences of thalassemia patients in Eastern India and examined how social relationships impacted treatment adherence. The authors, both individually and collectively, utilized an immersion-crystallization approach to analyze the content of the interviews. Results: Among the 11 respondents, 54.6%

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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.

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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Availability and Requirements Vaccination programs in communities, including schools, childcare centers, community gathering places, and homes, also successfully improve vaccine uptake, especially for children less likely to access healthcare. I discussed this debate in my previous blog post.

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Coming Soon: Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center

Logansport Memorial Hospital

Chronic pain can affect all areas of our lives, including our relationships, sleep, and mental health, and it may even lead to a lower quality of life. Together with the Pain Management Group (PMG), Logansport Memorial is dedicated to providing high-quality care right here in our community.

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Measuring Primary Care Access: Aligning Measurement with the Expanding Domains of Access [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Despite the many well-established benefits of primary care (PC), the percentage of Americans with a source of usual care or with an ongoing PC relationship is declining. Objective: To identify existing measures that effectively evaluate access to PC. Measures were further categorized into 13 access domains.