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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural.

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Time for Geriatric Assessments in Cancer Care: William Dale, Mazie Tsang, and John Simmons

GeriPal

To start with assessing all these syndromes and palliative care related problems and geriatric syndromes, so that we can create interventions that allow people to receive the cutting edge therapies. Mazie, I know it changes locale to locale, because your referral sources are going to be different. Eric: Whose job, though, is it?