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Relationship between Social Risks and Diabetes Metrics in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Type 2 diabetes impacts 11.3% Primary care settings may be an appropriate environment to address social risk factors, however much is not known about the characteristics of patient reported social risk among patients with diabetes in a general primary care setting.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

My take, and extrapolation, is that there are three reasons why healthcare has failed to evolve in usefulness of both our product (the care we deliver) and our technology (our EMRs), our customer centeredness and the value/cost relationship of the services we provide. 1) Healthcare is not at all customer centered.

Patients 130
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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

The patient reached out to me and asked what I thought or recommended because I had built that relationship with that patient, I had built that trust. Let’s say a diabetic comes in and they’re on metformin. We said, if we want to be known for care experience, we want to spend time, we want to invest.

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Artificial Intelligence: Charlotta Lindvall, Matt DeCamp, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Audio: [electronic voice] Alex Smith has been taken over by an artificial intelligence. Is there a true relationship with that? So over fitting just means that you found a relationship in your data that is not going to be generalizable to other people. This is Eric Widera. Eric: Yeah.

IT 99
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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

Is that because they have higher rates of chronic conditions like diabetes, coronary disease, tobacco use, things like that, or is there something else that’s going on? Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt have no relationships to disclose.

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

GeriPal

So pretty soon, I hope, we’ll be able to do this all electronically by anyone who wants to. Or electronically, to fill out, right? So they are an important part of developing a relationship where one of the manifestations clearly is, “Well, yeah, I felt good about that. So there is no paper and pencil at all.

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Allowing Patients to Die: Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck

GeriPal

He was a terrible diabetic. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Guests Louise Aronson and Bill Andereck have no relationships to disclose. After he got out, he came to San Francisco to kind of start a new life, which began and ended in the tenderloin. He did have a habit of drinking a bit and drank quite a bit.