Kuzel, Anton J Cuellar, Alison Nichols, Len
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HHS' Million Hearts campaign focused the delivery system on ABCS clinical quality measures (appropriate Aspirin use, Blood pressure control, Cholesterol control, and Smoking cessation counseling). AHRQ's Evidence Now project funded 7 collaboratives to test different ways to improve performance and outcomes on ABCS within small primary care practice...
Haggerty, Treah Sedney, Cara L Dekeseredy, Patricia Nwafor, Divine Brownstein, Henry H Caretta, Martina A Pollini, Robin A
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Opioid use disorder has caused significant morbidity and mortality resulting in opioid prescribing limiting laws, such as State Bill 273 in West Virginia. The purpose of this study is to explore the impacts of a restrictive opioid prescription law on physicians in medical practice in West Virginia. A qualitative study with open-ended semistructured...
Britz, Jacqueline B Huffstetler, Alison N Henry, Tracey L Ragunanthan, Braveen Britton, Erin Doshi, Neeti Stange, Kurt C Etz, Rebecca S
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The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a worsening mental health crisis, while also dramatically reducing access to in-person primary care services. Primary care, an essential provider of mental health services, rapidly adopted telemedicine to address behavioral health needs. Here we examine the provision of mental health services by primary care during...
Ludden, Thomas Shade, Lindsay Thomas, Jeremy Russo, Mark W Leonard, Michael Zamor, Philippe J Patterson, Charity G Tapp, Hazel
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Increased screening efforts and the development of effective antiviral treatments have led to marked improvement in Hepatitis C (HCV) patient outcomes. However, many people in the US are believed to have undiagnosed HCV. Successful screening strategies and access to a coordinated system of care are critical for HCV affected adults. The objective of...
Khokhrina, Anna; Andreeva, Elena; Degryse, Jean-Marie; 5966;
Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is characterized by repeated breathing pauses during sleep. The prevalence of SDB varies widely between studies. Some longitudinal studies have found an association of SDB with incident or recurrent cardiovascular events. We sought to systematically describe the current data on the correlation between SDB and cardio...
Leung, Lucinda B Rubenstein, Lisa V Jaske, Erin Taylor, Leslie Post, Edward P Nelson, Karin M Rosland, Ann-Marie
BackgroundIntegrated care for comorbid depression and chronic medical disease improved physical and mental health outcomes in randomized controlled trials. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) implemented Primary Care-Mental Health Integration (PC-MHI) across all primary care clinics nationally to increase access to mental/behavioral health trea...
Hessler, Danielle Fisher, Lawrence Dickinson, Miriam Dickinson, Perry Parra, José Potter, Michael B
Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) self-management support (SMS) programs can yield improved clinical outcomes but may be limited in application or impact without considering individuals' unique social and personal challenges that may impede successful diabetes outcomes. The current study compares an evidence-based SMS program with an enhanced version that add...
Stone, P Hickman, K Holmes, S Feary, J Quint, J
Currently the National Asthma and COPD audit programme (NACAP) only undertakes audit of COPD primary care in Wales due to its near complete data coverage. We aimed to determine if the quality of COPD primary care in the other UK nations is comparable with Wales. We found that English, Scottish, and Northern Irish practices were significantly worse ...
Turner, Jessica Martin, Graham Hudson, Nicky Shaw, Liz Huddlestone, Lisa Weis, Christina Northern, Alison Schreder, Sally Davies, Melanie Eborall, Helen
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Background
Referral and uptake rates of structured self-management education (SSME) for Type 2 diabetes (T2DM) in the UK are variable and relatively low. Research has documented contributing factors at patient, practitioner and organisational levels. We report a project to develop an intervention to improve referral to and uptake of SSME, involving ...
Rampes, Sanketh Choy, Shern-Ping
BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the sixth most common cause of cancer-related death in the UK amongst women. Ovarian cancer presents particular challenges for general practitioners (GPs) to diagnose due to its rarity and presentation with non-specific symptoms. METHODS: A narrative overview of the literature was conducted by searching PubMed and Rese...
