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Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess the impact of a question on need for assistance with social risk factors identified through routine screening. Setting or Dataset: Secondary data on social needs screening and referral generated through Epic. Study Design and Analysis: Descriptive analysis of secondary data.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours) allocated to preventive care. "To hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1

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Routine screening policy for all adult primary care patients could significantly improve depression diagnosis

Medical Xpress

Depression is a costly and debilitating condition that profoundly influences a person's quality of life. In 2020, more than 21 million adults in the U.S. reported having at least one major depressive episode in the previous year. Depression symptoms increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, and now affect nearly 1 in 3 American adults.

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Parenting in a post-pandemic world

Medical Xpress

In October, a panel of health experts recommended that all children ages 8 to 18 receive routine screening for anxiety during visits to primary care doctors. High school graduation rates dipped in almost half of the country's states in 2021.

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AAA screening rates in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine at UNMC [Clinical research (other)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Those who are Black/African American are significantly more likely to be screened (61.8%) than not screened (38.2%), while those who are White/Caucasian are significantly more likely to not be screened (51.4%) than to be screened (48.6%). Conclusion: There is a need for more screening for AAA in primary care.

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Combating Food Insecurity in Minnesota

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Food Insecurity Screenings: Hennepin Health Care has integrated the Hunger Vital Signs tool into routine screenings to identify and support at-risk patients. M Health Fairview’s Fair Table program ensures convenient access to food during medical appointments.

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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? Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider.

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