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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Residents and local leaders joined forces to send food and clothing to the island and to welcome newly arrived families to their town. The Holyoke Health Center, in collaboration with the Family Resource Center at Enlace de Familias , played a pivotal role in this local relief effort.

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Perceived acceptability and feasibility of integrating breast and cervical cancer screening for women and providers in Kenya [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Integrated screening for BC and CC can maximize the number of women screened and optimize limited resources. Few efforts have been made to integrate BC and CC screening in Kenya. Objective This study assesses the acceptability and feasibility of integrating BC screening into the CC screening program in Kenya.

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Can the Practice of Primary Care Medicine ever be Practical Again?

A Country Doctor Writes

This means we have the resources to reach out to the populations we manage and offer them immunizations, screening tests and advice without dragging them into the office one by one to do this for them (and bill their insurance for our efforts). But, we are disincentivized and downright punished if we do just that.

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Levers and challenges to recruiting clinical settings for a shared decision-making stepped wedge cluster randomized trial [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and analysis: For a SWcRT aiming at scaling up SDM for prenatal screening of trisomy in Quebec, descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative thematic analysis were performed to have recruitment insights. Setting and dataset: From Quebec government websites, we compiled a list of sites potentially offering prenatal services.

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Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. Government. And we need to risk a provider sometimes having fifteen unscheduled minutes.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

GeriPal

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

HTA organizations are generally funded by governments, they guide health care professionals and decision/policy-makers, and they publish knowledge translation products such as guidelines. Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Health organization outcomes.