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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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Postural Sway Velocity Effective for Assessing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Physician's Weekly

Postural sway velocity as a screening tool in diabetic peripheral neuropathy represents a potential early marker of balance impairment and fall risk. In one study that was not presented at the PNS annual meeting, the researchers aimed to assess whether evaluating balance and gait could serve as a viable screening tool of DPN.

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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

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Should it? Joe 01:15 Yes.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital. And maybe we should have more patient-centered conversations. We want to do meaningful work and so we want to know that the conversations we have impact patient care. That this is iterative from diagnosis to end-of-life, right?

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