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Creative Dissemination: Community-Engaged Mural to Disseminate the PORTRAIT Registry on Peripheral Arterial Disease [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Public health initiatives, including community engagement projects, are vital for promoting early diagnosis and encouraging behaviors to combat PAD. Materials detailed resources for PAD screening, physical activity, and smoking cessation and were distributed through dissemination activities and partners.

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Impact of Integrative Medicine in People with Cancer: An Analysis from the BraveNet Practice-Based Research Network [Cancer research (not screening)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Many people with cancer are interested in utilizing integrative approaches alongside conventional cancer treatments to minimize side effects and promote whole person healing. Setting: Integrative medicine centers (n=17) in PRIMIER (Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry) of the BraveNet Practice-Based Research Network.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Joseph Gaugler is the Director of the Center for Healthy Aging and Innovation at the University of Minnesota, director of the BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving, and Editor-in-Chief of the Gerontologist. Who should get it if anyone? What should we use to screen individuals? Is that right, Soo? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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Dysphagia Revisited: A Podcast with Raele Donetha Robison and Nicole Rogus-Pulia

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This simple challenge was focused on putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients with dysphagia who are prescribed thickened liquids. And I think that we’re at this kind of crossroads right now in dysphagia, and dysphagia management where our patients are suffering. We revisit it, and make things better for our patients.

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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

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The National Palliative Care Research Center (NPCRC)and Palliative Care Research Cooperative (PCRC)were founded in part to meet this need. By diagnosis? She’s also a member of the PAIR Center, which stands for Palliative Advanced Illness Research Center. Patients have all sorts of problems. By prognosis?

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Palliative Care for Mental Illness: A Podcast with Dani Chammas and Brent Kious

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A NY Times article titled Should Patients Be Allowed to Die From Anorexia ? It’s one of the core things that we think about palliative care is you got the physical, psychological, social and spiritual symptoms. That’s how do we treat the mental health needs of patients with serious medical illness?

Illness 101
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Stepped Palliative Care: A Podcast with Jennifer Temel, Chris Jones, and Pallavi Kumar

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Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.