Most Swedish cancer survivors use primary care, but satisfaction varies widely between groups
A Swedish cross-sectional survey of people with breast, prostate, lung, or colorectal cancer found that almost all had used primary ...
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Beijing primary care struggles to deliver integrated post-diagnostic dementia care
A qualitative interview study of Beijing general practitioners and family caregivers identifies interrelated barriers to integrated post-diagnostic dementia care in ...
Medical students say health policy shapes their career plans
A survey of Colorado medical students found high self-reported awareness of policy changes, with many linking reproductive health policy to ...
Cold Summer Days Linked to Rising Depression Risk in Vulnerable Patients
A Belgian case-crossover study of primary care records found that unusually cold summer days were associated with higher depression rates, ...
Systems model maps fragmented primary care for newcomers in Canada
A systems-thinking study of newcomer primary care in Fredericton, New Brunswick, identified 45 instances of performance variability and produced 16 ...
Remote GP Consultations Reach One in Five Visits in Norway, Registry Study Finds
A national registry study of all Norwegian GP consultations in 2023 found that 21 percent were conducted remotely, with frequent ...
Top-Down Adoption, Bottom-Up Adaptation: How Foreign Health Innovations Take Root in China
A qualitative interview study identifies four structural factors—policy alignment, multi-level leadership, internal stakeholder alignment, and incentives—that shape how foreign health ...
Poor sleep plagues most older adults in Turkish primary care, study finds
A cross-sectional study of 388 older adults in Turkish primary care found 73.5% had poor sleep quality, independently associated with ...
Only 6% of Primary Care Physicians in North-Western Nigeria Show Good Knowledge of Mpox, Survey Finds
An online cross-sectional survey of 155 primary care physicians across seven Nigerian states found that just 5.8% demonstrated good knowledge ...
Distrust of Medicine Linked to Delayed Care and Weaker Cancer Screening Attitudes
A cross-sectional study of 568 primary care attendees in eastern Türkiye found that higher medical mistrust and health system distrust ...
Blood biomarker pTau217 fails to predict mortality or autonomy decline in older adults
A prospective eight-year follow-up found that plasma pTau217 levels suggesting amyloidosis were common in community-dwelling older adults but did not ...
Ambient AI Scribes May Ease Clinic Visits, But Patient Comfort Depends on Trust and Familiarity
A qualitative study of twenty ambulatory patients at an academic medical center found that ambient AI scribes were associated with ...
Neck Pain Care Varies Sharply by State Among Older Americans, Medicare Study Finds
A retrospective analysis of 2021 Medicare fee-for-service claims found significant state-level geographic variation in chiropractic and primary care utilization for ...
Emergency Departments Bear the Brunt of Care for Men with Opioid Use Disorder and Criminal-Legal Involvement
A cross-sectional study of 159 men with opioid use disorder and criminal-legal involvement in an urban safety-net system found that ...
Dementia Risk Scores Show Uneven Predictive Power in Landmark Meta-Analysis
A systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 cohort studies finds that the CAIDE score predicts dementia best in middle-aged people ...
Patients and Clinicians Reveal How to Rebuild Pain Therapy for Opioid Use Disorder
Qualitative interviews with 31 patients and 15 clinicians in Pennsylvania and West Virginia identified stigma, low pain self-efficacy, and social ...
Willing but unprepared: Romanian family doctors fall short on early cognitive screening
Nearly every family doctor in Romania agrees that spotting mild cognitive impairment early should be part of their job, yet ...
Better Primary Care Access Linked to Lower Disease Prevalence in Chicago
A cross-sectional study of 6,603 COMPASS participants in Chicago found that greater spatial accessibility to primary care, measured with an ...
Continuity, regularity linked to ambulatory use in Shanghai cohort
A retrospective study of 10,122 patients with hypertension or diabetes in Shanghai found distinct associations between primary-care continuity, regularity and ...
Blood test trends linked to cancer diagnoses after unexplained weight loss
A retrospective cohort study linked longitudinal changes in 26 routine blood tests to cancer diagnoses among more than 275,000 patients ...
