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A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients. Conclusion: COACH pre-implementation evaluation provided information that informed implementation and trial protocol changes and may increase the adoption of COACH. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e.,

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Rural Ontario Complete Lifestyle Medicine Intervention Program (CLIP-ON) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Adults (≥18yrs) with chronic diseases such as prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, dyslipidemia, and/or concerns related to body weight (BMI≥25). gender, age, race, education, etc.), Outcome Measures: Participant characteristics (ie.

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How Sprouts Enhance Your Health for Better life for You

Rao Doctor

How Sprouts Help to Improve Your Health Boosting Your Nutrient Intake and The Key to Better Nutrition In my last article, I talked about how to grow sprouts , their different types and some educational videos on this topic and in this we learn how sprouts enhance your health for a even better life.

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Lupus Emergencies in Children and Adolescents

PEMBlog

Emergency medicine providers should maintain a high index of suspicion for these entities in children and adolescents with known or suspected SLE. Renal Disease (Lupus Nephritis) Signs & Symptoms: Children may present with new-onset hypertension, edema, or decreased urine output. References Brunner HI, Huggins J, Klein-Gitelman MS.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality. education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification.

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Cardiovascular Risk After Hysterectomy Highest for Young Women

Physician's Weekly

They accessed hysterectomy status and age at surgery from the biennial self-reported questionnaires participants provided between 1976 and 2017, and they obtained cause-of-death data from the National Death Index. Also, hormone therapy timing and dosages were not captured in detail, and reasons for undergoing hysterectomy were unavailable.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

But you worry that the advance directive does not provide enough guidance for the specific decision at Yael Jo, do you. So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. It doesn’t provide enough guidance for the clinicians to make decisions.