Search results for "Disparities"
Preventive care still on during COVID-19
COVID-19 may foster innovation in primary care as physicians describe various strategies to reconnect with patients, such as leveraging telemedicine visits to also explain the practice's coronavirus-related safety protocols, or systematically reviewing their panels to flag at-risk patients.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/preventive-care-still-on-during-covid-19.htm
1 Nov 2020
Home BP monitoring works, but not as well alone
Home blood pressure monitoring needs to be combined with other interventions and the data collected must be used to engage the patient in some way to have the greatest effect.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/home-bp-monitoring-works-but-not-as-well-alone.htm
1 Nov 2020
The pain of 2020 and the hope for 2021
We have lost so much this past year, but loss also reminds us of our abundant blessings, so many we take for granted daily.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/11/the-pain-of-2020-and-the-hope-for-2021.htm
1 Nov 2020
New interactive cases on high-value care now available
The interactive modules include a mix of ambulatory and inpatient cases focused on high-value care and provide free CME/MOC to ACP members.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/27/6.htm
27 Oct 2020
Race-adjusted eGFR may negatively affect CKD care in African American patients
A cross-sectional registry study found that one-third of African American patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) would hypothetically be reclassified to a more severe stage if the race multiplier were removed from a common estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) equation.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/27/4.htm
27 Oct 2020
Effects of pandemic on alcohol use, mental health, primary care, and hospitalizations
Recent studies found that the pandemic was associated with increases in alcohol use and internet searches for mental health issues. The rise of telemedicine meant fewer blood pressure and cholesterol evaluations, and hospitalizations for several non-COVID-19 conditions stayed below normal.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/10/06/1.htm
6 Oct 2020
Pandemic pinpoints racial, ethnic disparities
Disparities in outcomes created by COVID-19 have exposed long-standing gaps in health care, and in a larger sense, the fabric of the social safety net.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/pandemic-pinpoints-racial-ethnic-disparities.htm
1 Sep 2020
Healing the homeless during COVID-19
Communities are protecting homeless residents from crowded shelter conditions during the pandemic by using Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to provide shelter in hotel and motel rooms.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/healing-the-homeless-during-covid-19.htm
1 Sep 2020
LGBTQ care must go beyond guidelines
To make health care more inclusive, physicians can include in the medical record the use of preferred names and pronouns, information on gender-affirming hormones and surgeries, and a record of the organs that patients have and that they were born with.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/lgbtq-care-must-go-beyond-guidelines.htm
1 Sep 2020
Medical homes for homeless patients during COVID-19
This issue also covers racial disparities and COVID-19, conference coverage on diabetes and LGBTQ care, and myocardial infarction in the elderly.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/medical-homes-for-homeless-patients-during-covid-19.htm
1 Sep 2020