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Perceived acceptability and feasibility of integrating breast and cervical cancer screening for women and providers in Kenya [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Integrated screening for BC and CC can maximize the number of women screened and optimize limited resources. Few efforts have been made to integrate BC and CC screening in Kenya. Objective This study assesses the acceptability and feasibility of integrating BC screening into the CC screening program in Kenya.

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Levers and challenges to recruiting clinical settings for a shared decision-making stepped wedge cluster randomized trial [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and analysis: For a SWcRT aiming at scaling up SDM for prenatal screening of trisomy in Quebec, descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative thematic analysis were performed to have recruitment insights. We aim at describing the challenges and levers to recruitment of sites for an SDM SWcRT.

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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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San Luis Obispo Physician Launches New Medical Practice with Exclusive Service Program from Concierge Choice Physicians

Concierge Choice Physicians

Greenough’s private cell number; patient advocacy and enhanced coordination with specialists and other health providers; and a comprehensive annual exam with customized screenings for each patient. “Welcoming my patients to this new style of medicine has been overwhelmingly positive,” Dr. Greenough adds.

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Mapping Colorectal Cancer Screening Workflows in Primary Care Practices [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.) are needed to reach US CRC screening goals.

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Personal and Professional Impact of Health Equity Efforts on Medical Assistants in Primary Care Practices [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. Most MAs had experience with HE activities, most commonly attending presentations on health disparities and SDOH, and screening patients for social needs. Population Studied Medical assistants working in primary care.