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Patients Preferences and Difficulties with 5 Different Fecal Immunochemical Tests (FITs) [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

FITs would save nearly as many lives as colonoscopy with far fewer complications. Population Studied: 2148 individuals aged 50 to 85 years scheduled for screening or surveillance colonoscopy. Individuals with errors in collection perceived statistically significantly more difficulty with collection.

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Urinary Incontinence Revisited: George Kuchel & Alison Huang

GeriPal

Incontinence and avoiding issues can present in an older individual, in some cases, just like they do a younger person. Biological aging or physiological aging varies from individual to individual. How do you think about this from a clinical perspective when you’re seeing individuals in your office? Everybody ages.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

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Although, certainly when you start facing complications of serious illness, it is increasingly important to engage as individuals and conversations about goals, values, and preferences. And trying to translate this very complicated process into a universal means of acting at a complex time in life is really, really difficult.

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