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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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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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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. Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach. 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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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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Who should get Palliative Care? Kate Courtright

GeriPal

Should eligibility and access be determined by clinician referral? If we move away from clinician referrals as the means by which people get access, how do we keep the clinicians engaged, and not enraged? Should we just use the referrals, whatever’s coming into us, whoever, whatever clinician decides. By diagnosis?

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

GeriPal

So that’s kind of something that we’ve really been interested in most recently and just have a pilot implementation study funded to get it implemented into the stream of care and are figuring out how do we get this information summarized quickly and into the electronic health record. Eric: LaVera, I got a question for you.

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