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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Using CPCSSN data, we defined a cohort of patients aged 50-105 with diabetes diagnosed before the pre-pandemic period. Qualitative interviews were conducted with Ontario patients aged > 50 with diagnosis of (or receiving treatment for) type 2 diabetes prior to pandemic onset.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

So, the question becomes, what, if anything, should we do differently in the primary care setting to diagnose the disease? We address the following questions with Nate: Has anything changed for the primary care doctor when diagnosing Alzheimers? How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Does a good history matter anymore?

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

In general, the case is a patient who wound up with a new diagnosis of metastatic cancer during the course of the admission and at a certain point had full capacity, was able to make decisions and communicate. I’m not going to talk about finances. Eric: Lynn or Anne? But there was an impact on us as a team too. Lynn: Sure.

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New Prognostic Models for Older Adults: Alex Lee, James Deardorff, Sei Lee

GeriPal

Someone who’s healthy in their 60s and just got diagnosed with diabetes, yeah, they might benefit, if they have a very long life expectancy, to prevent that decline in kidney function. Those have a very, very long time horizon. Most of which, almost all of which were non-clinical, right? That’s been reported previously.

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Health and Wealth Shocks: Lauren Hunt, Rebecca Rodin, Tsai-Chin Cho

GeriPal

Eric 12:03 I’m interested in that because I hear a lot about people losing their, like, one way, like people get health issue and then lose all their finances, especially in the U.S. May not even know that the patient has dementia, or they might think that, but it’s not been diagnosed. So let’s put a pin in that.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

How is it financed and what comes next? I think Bruce can speak to that, I think, 30-year gap in finances. The other way to think about who’s eligible… I talked about coming at this from a diagnosis point of view, people with certain conditions that you need to be hospitalized for. Yeah, Eric: Yeah.

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Trump Whacks Agency That Makes the Nation’s Health Care Safer

Physicians News Digest

Medical errors caused by missed diagnoses, drug errors, hospital infections, and other factors kill and maim tens of thousands of Americans each year. Stephen Parente, a University of Minnesota finance professor who said he consults informally with Trump health officials, said much of AHRQ’s work could be done by others.