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Compass Rose for Generating Community-based Referrals via Epic: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention/Instrument: The screening tool used in the pilot sites included five questions to assess needs related to transportation, food insecurity, utility payments, housing, and a final question to assess patients’ willingness to receive help.

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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.

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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. The final question asked patients, who have at least one risk factor, if they would like assistance with their need(s).

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Breaking Barriers: Perspectives on Clinical Trial Participation Among Older Hispanic/Latino Adults of Mexican Origin [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

Participants emphasized the role of family support and their reliance on adult children for decision-making and assistance with transportation and interpretation.

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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Sodium-glucose transporter 2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors have been proved to decrease the cardiovascular adverse events in several large randomized controlled trials (RCTS), but evidence limited to patients with type 2 diabetes and ASCVD. Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic.

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Strategies to Improve Diversity in Lymphoma Trials

Physician's Weekly

Strategies to improve minority enrollment include multidisciplinary tumor boards to identify eligible patients, patient navigators to guide participants, community engagement, modernized eligibility criteria, culturally relevant education, and reduced participation burdens. The FDA mandates diversity plans in trial design.

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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.”