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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

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Cervical cancer remains a significant health concern and screening is crucial for early diagnosis. Dataset Utilized data from a large integrated health system. Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. housing insecurity) affect screening behaviors.

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Understanding components of Maternal Diet among those diagnosed with Gestational Diabetes and/or Hypertension in Flint, MI [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: This cross-sectional study utilized self-reported baseline data from a longitudinal study. Diagnosis for GDM and GHTN were at 31- and 26-weeks’ gestation, respectively. Participants were recruited from two clinics in Flint, Michigan, a low-income urban community facing numerous health disparities.

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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 biomarkers of clinical utility are skin tests , specific IgE (sIgE), tryptase , and some HLA-DR genotyping. The measurement method is described.

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4 Natural Remedies for Hypothyroidism

AMMD

Your Thyroid Does Not Define You Remember that a hypothyroidism diagnosis does not define you. If your thyroid has sustained significant damage, you may still require thyroid hormone replacement. I know that managing this condition or any autoimmune disease can feel overwhelming at times.

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

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Nguyen, also the chief medical officer for care navigation with the Federation, described the innovation priorities at Kaiser Permanente.

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

GeriPal

And there is this bidirectional relationship between wealth and health shocks. And then I was inspired by this paper and then really interested in looking at the bidirectional relationship between the two of them. So still we have this bidirectional relationship. Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose.

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