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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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"It All Revolves Around the Pain": Patient Experiences of Navigating Care for Long COVID Pain Symptoms [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: The diverse sample included patients with LC with different insurance/payor types, and developed COVID symptoms at various time points in the pandemic. Demographic characteristics and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pain interference measure were collected via surveys.

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An Evaluation of Patient Outcomes Associated with Sludge (Administrative Burdens) in Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Instrument: survey - sludge (original questions), delayed or foregone screenings (informed by prior work), screening experience (Net Promotor Score) and health system distrust (Health System Distrust Scale); interviews – semi-structured interview guide design by the research team. 47, p< 001).

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Cervical Cancer Screening Differences Between Black and White Women: An Examination of HPV and Pap Test Utilization. [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset We utilized the 2019 and 2021 National Health Interview Survey data (NHIS), which collects information about health, healthcare access, and health behaviors, including CCS. Also, more Black women reported being informed about the type of CCS they received. population.

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Institutional policies on research-related transportation could help improve research engagement [Clinical research (other)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design We sought information on policies for research-related transportation across the HBCD study sites. In addition, information on liability insurance and protections was sought. Data on five policy domains identified as key to research-related transportation were extracted from each existing policy and summarized.

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Office of the National Coordinator for health information. Population Studied: Community-dwelling non-elderly adults (19-64 years) residents of Quebec and covered by the public prescription drug insurance between 2014 and 2017. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

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Implementation Evaluation of a Community Health Worker Program for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes or Hypertension [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

R) Of these, the 551 patients exposed to a CHW tended to be younger, female, insured by Medicaid, live in a higher SVI area, work full time or were unemployed, or identified as Black and/or African American or Hispanic and Latino. M) Themes from semi-structured interviews with patients. I) There was a mean of 2.8