Individual, Primary Care and Transportation

Association between patient reported social risks and HOUSES index: A rural-urban comparison [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integration of patient reported social risk questionnaires in electronic health records allows for assessment of individual-level SES, but this data is frequently missing. A housing asset-based measure of SES (HOUSES) can provide individual-level SES without need for patient questionnaires. vs 3.4%, transportation risk 3.3%

Primary Care

Primary Care Patients Transportation Electronics

Relationship between Social Risks and Colorectal Cancer Screening/Surveillance in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Implementation of electronic health record SDOH questionnaires is more common in health care institutions and allows for individual-level assessment of social risk in a primary care setting. Significant differences may exist among screening and surveillance populations.

Screening

Screening Primary Care Relationship Transportation

Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. ITS model- proportion of individuals who screened positive for at least one HRSN, aggregated by week.

Transportation

Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care

Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Many of us know where our meals come from, have sufficient clothing, enjoy roofs over our heads, access heating and air conditioning, use reliable transportation, and receive effective medications. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor.

Primary Care Doctor

Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Board-Certified Physicals

Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): Understand the unique lived experiences of Latinas with cervical cancer over 45 years old across the cancer care continuum. Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose

What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

GeriPal

JUNE 12, 2025

But there are times that a primary care physician or an internal medicine physician may make the referral. Even if it’s a discussion that is involving the primary care physician, the geriatrician, the medical oncologist, the surgical oncologist. Eric 09:13 Do you ever get it from a hospice agency?

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Referral Patients IT

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

They weren’t hurt, they didn’t need transport, and we were seeing the same people over and over again. But what was really interesting is the transport to the hospital was actually going down in their system. All of these are factors that are on the individual level. What do you think of that?” Eric: Oh, no.

Community

Community Transportation IT PCP

Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. And also I was in the HVMA primary care program.

Primary Care

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients

When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

APRIL 28, 2025

Most sore throats heal on their own, but severe cases may require urgent care. Learn more about which symptoms mean you should go to urgent care or the ER, as well as when to use telehealth or see a primary care doctor. If your symptoms get worse before your appointment, you may need to go to urgent care.

ER

ER Telehealth Primary Care Doctor Appointment

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Emmy: Because if you’ve got other ways to get things delivered or you have good public transportation or you have a lot of family around, that’s a very different kind of calculus than if you live on your ranch and there’s no way to otherwise get to town, and there’s nobody else around. Alex: Yeah.

Families

Families Family IT Diagnosis

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? Cari 39:51 Right, right.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. And I think DNR and transport to hospital are those kinds of things. I hope the law continues to allow flexibility in individualism.

Families

Families Family Patient-Centered IT

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

Primary Care

Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

Hospital

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT

Primary Care Digest

Association between patient reported social risks and HOUSES index: A rural-urban comparison [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Relationship between Social Risks and Colorectal Cancer Screening/Surveillance in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

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Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

What You Should Know About Radiation Oncology: Anish Butala, Emily Martin and Evie Kalmar

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

Guidelines or Goals in Heart Failure: A Podcast with Parag Goyal, Nicole Superville, and Matthew Shuster

When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

Surrogate Decision Making: Bernie Lo and Laurie Dornbrand

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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