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Combating Food Insecurity in Minnesota

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Food Insecurity Screenings: Hennepin Health Care has integrated the Hunger Vital Signs tool into routine screenings to identify and support at-risk patients.

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Barriers to and Facilitators of Participant Engagement in a Multi-level Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To explore participants’ barriers to and facilitators of engagement in a multilevel, cross-sector clinical trial designed to address social needs and improve health-related outcomes for individuals with T2D experiencing food insecurity. their 3-month endpoint visit).

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Raynaud's Phenomenon

Vascular Physician

Normally, when a healthy individual is exposed to cold temperatures the blood vessels in the fingers and toes vasoconstrict or narrow. Evaluation begins with three screening questions: Are your fingers or toes unusually sensitive to cold? This means that the body reacts as it is supposed to, but in an exaggerated way.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢. Who do we have with us today?

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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How to Make an Alzheimer’s Diagnosis in Primary Care: A Podcast with Nathaniel Chin

GeriPal

How should we screen for cognitive impairment? Who do you think we should be screening and how should we be screening them for these symptoms? Well, so I guess it depends on what you say screening. That screening influences kind of further treatment, actually, probably more importantly, patient outcomes.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. Alex: Yeah. Terri, I wonder if you could comment on that.

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