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Co-occurring Issues Facing Patients Who Use Unregulated Drugs: Insights From a Survey in Edmonton, Canada [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

76% (379/499) of participants expressed having a diagnosed or undiagnosed serious mental health problem, such as depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia. 40% (201/499) of participants were reluctant to seek medical care because they use drugs.

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Sickle Cell Crises: A Deep Dive into Patterns of Readmissions at an Academic Medical Center [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: Retrospective single-site cohort study of patients diagnosed with SCD (ICD10 codes starting with D57) from Jan 2020 to December 2023. Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia.

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Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

Boulder Medical Center

Unlike a routine physical or sick visit, the AWV focuses on health risk assessment, screening, and prevention—not diagnosing or treating new or existing conditions. A Medicare Annual Wellness Visit is a once-per-year appointment covered by Medicare Part B. The post Medicare Annual Wellness Visit: What Is It?

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Book Review: Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? by Dr. Robert C. Smith

Common Sense Family Doctor

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Validation of Mood and Anxiety Disorder Case Definitions using Primary Care Electronics Medical Records [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. Results: Definition 11 captured anxiety, depression, and bi-polar diagnoses with sen 80.7, depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia. spec 88.7, and NPV 95.7 spec 94.2, spec 87.9,

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Clinical Strategies and Challenges of Psychiatrists in Accra, Ghana [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

The authors aimed to determine these approaches and barriers to better understand the scope of mental health delivery from the perspective of psychiatrists working in the capital city of Accra. Understanding these challenges can inform interventions and policies to improve mental health care delivery in the country.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hepatitis C virus (HCV) disproportionately impacts persons with substance use and mental health disorders within the United States. Setting: MedStar Health, a multidisciplinary and multispecialty health care system in the mid-Atlantic. were on Medicaid insurance when diagnosed. Among new patients, 58.9%