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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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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics.

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Lived experience of individuals with thalassemia in Eastern India [Allergy/Immunology]

Annals of Family Medicine

The study aimed to explore the lived experiences of thalassemia patients in Eastern India and examined how social relationships impacted treatment adherence. The authors, both individually and collectively, utilized an immersion-crystallization approach to analyze the content of the interviews. Results: Among the 11 respondents, 54.6%

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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

Utilities 130
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Spiritual History-Taking Amongst Southeast Asian Immigrants and Refugees [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: Mixed-methods study utilizing an in-person survey. Outcome Measures: Patients’ perceptions of the relationship between their faith and their health; their attitudes towards being asked about religion/spirituality in a primary care setting. Setting/Dataset: FQHC serving refugees in Dallas, Texas.

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May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. They have an easier time finding healthy coping mechanisms and positive emotions, and can maintain supportive relationships. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. What is Mental Health?

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Development and Evaluation of a Novel Interprofessional Education Tool for Addressing Health Misinformation [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures: We evaluated students’ pre- and post- self-assessed competence in functioning in an interprofessional healthcare team through the SPICE-R2 validated survey, as well as their readiness to engage in discussions with patients utilizing COVID-19 misinformation.

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