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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system. This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program.

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Important Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Patients Perspective [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patient Important Outcomes (PIOs) was first introduced in the literature with the criticism that research studies were designed with outcomes relevant to health care providers, but not relevant/important to patients. Setting: Academic family medicine clinic in Edmonton, Canada.

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Advancing Biomarker Validation for Drug Hypersensitivity

Physician's Weekly

But the varied mechanisms and clinical presentations of drug hypersensitivity reactions (DHRs) can make diagnosis and treatment challenging, and most biomarkers still require validation. The mechanisms underlying DHRs are complex and diagnosis requires a detailed in vivo and in vitro assessment on an individual basis.

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Molecular Analysis Improves FH Prognosis & Risk Stratification

Physician's Weekly

These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease. Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. Familial hypercholesterolemia is one subset of hypercholesterolemia.

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Sleep Disorders: Improving Rest For Better Overall Health

Center for Family Medicine

Studies show that exercise helps individuals fall asleep faster while improving sleep quality. There are now sleep tracker rings, straps, and watches that monitor sleep quality, with some providing a sleep score. Some devices can provide helpful tips, leading to overall improvements in health and sleep.

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Discover Direct Primary Care: An Excellent Choice for Uninsured, Underinsured, and High Deductible Health Plan Holders - Detroit and Royal Oak

Plum Health

Raquel Orlich treats a Plum Health member Are you a self-employed individual, uninsured, underinsured, or enrolled in a high deductible catastrophic health plan in the Detroit or Royal Oak area? It's not insurance but complements various insurance and health share plans to provide comprehensive coverage.

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Getting Answers: A Patient's Guide to Discussing Unexplained Symptoms with Your Doctor

Vida Family Medicine

Unfortunately among these alternative practitioners are many individuals who are selling tests, treatments, or supplements that are at best useless and expensive but at worst actually harmful. Many tests offered by alternative practitioners are not validated by high-quality clinical research and do not provide accurate or useful information.