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Test-Retest Reliability of Electronic Handgrip Dynamometry and Accelerometry Measured Muscle Function in Older Adults [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Utilizing new electronic handgrip dynamometer and accelerometer technologies may allow for additional muscle function attributes to be feasibly measured, which in turn, may help elevate prognostic value and specificity for intervention referral. Interclass correlation coefficients were used for the analyses. for asymmetry, 0.65

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Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources. Setting or Dataset: Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine; EPIC data; legal records. Nine focus groups were conducted and recorded, using semi-structured interviews.

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Economic analysis of virtual Medical Legal Partnership model [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.

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Adoption, implementation, and impact of a Diabetes Navigator program based in primary care [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

A retrospective cohort study design was utilized to assess changes in A1c levels over the course of one year pre-enrollment and one year post-enrollment, comparing enrolled and not enrolled patients; a mixed effects interrupted time series model was employed for analysis.

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Developing actionable strategies to implement evidence-based breast cancer follow-up in primary care using codesign [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: Ongoing codesign process to optimize electronic health record (EHR) customizations and support materials for breast cancer survivorship care. Feedback from champions was elicited to improve report accuracy and support tool utility. Setting: Large integrated health system. Population Studied: Primary care clinics.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. Did your intervention Lexy actually have any effect on utilization, which again, somewhat argue is the reason that services palliative care get funded? And so helping physicians have more fluency in general spiritual care and how to make referrals to specialists when needed.

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