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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to identify the relative importance of factors.

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Should Recent Weather Events Impact Your Emergency Fund?

The Motivated MD

Though severe weather events like this used to feel like a ‘once in a decade’ tragedy, they are, statistically speaking, becoming more and more common. Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? Should recent weather events impact your emergency fund? It happens. What Can We Learn From This?

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Well-being Investment: Movement & Exercise

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

. - Lower risks of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality. This is referred to as NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and is important for maintaining baseline metabolism and utilization of calories. For very sedentary individuals every step above 2,200 steps is beneficial. At the end of the day most of us are wiped.

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Improving Patient Communication

CDOCS

& We participate within our dental community in educational meetings and events, which builds our trust in the specialist. By the utilization of patient financing strategies, we can help to facilitate a means of affordability for the everyday patient.</span></span></p> link] Dated June 2019.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. I’m a family physician by training. And I would remiss not to mention my wife and my family who might love and enjoy time with to travel.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

GeriPal

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Including more hospital utilization or healthcare utilization, maybe cognitive impairment issues. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time. Is that right, Nick? Nick: Yeah, absolutely.

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Interdisciplinary Case Report

CDOCS

jpg]<br /> <span style="font-size:11px;"><em><span style="font-family: ubuntu;">Figure& 1: Initial presentation of missing teeth #7 and 10</span></em></span></p> <p>[image:Figure_2.jpg]<br Much faster than the local lab turnaround times.