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The Association Between Oncology Outreach and Timely Treatment for Rural Patients with Breast Cancer: A Claims-Based Approach
BackgroundOncology outreach is a common strategy for increasing rural access to cancer care, where traveling oncologists commute across healthcare...
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Bundling Colorectal Cancer Screening Outreach with Screening for Social Risk in Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Stepped-Wedge Implementation-Effectiveness Study
BackgroundBundling is combining individual interventions to meet quality metrics. Bundling offers of cancer screening with screening for social...
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Telephone outreach by volunteer navigators: a theory-based evaluation of an intervention to improve access to appropriate primary care
BackgroundA pilot intervention in a participatory research programme in Québec, Canada, used telephone outreach by volunteer patient navigators to...
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Reaching Ambulatory Older Adults with Educational Tools: Comparative Efficacy and Cost of Varied Outreach Modalities in Primary Care
BackgroundProviding patients with access to health information that can be obtained outside of an office visit is an important part of education, yet...
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Gaps in vaccine management practices during vaccination outreach sessions in rural settings in southwestern Uganda
BackgroundOutreach efforts were developed to bolster people’s access to and use of immunization services in underserved populations. However, there...
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Telephonic Outreach to Engage Patients with Substance Use Disorder Post-Hospitalization During the COVID-19 Pandemic
During the initial COVID-19 surge, one public hospital in NYC updated their post-discharge outreach approach for patients with substance use...
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Addressing COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Uptake Among African Immigrants: Lessons from a Community-Based Outreach Program
In 2021, the African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA) implemented a community-based vaccine education and outreach program to decrease...
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“Wanna cry this out real quick?”: an examination of secondary traumatic stress risk and resilience among post-overdose outreach staff in Massachusetts
BackgroundPost-overdose outreach programs engage overdose survivors and their families soon after an overdose event. Staff implementing these...
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Lessons Learned from Implementation of a Post-opioid Overdose Outreach Program in a Rural Massachusetts Community
Post-overdose outreach programs can play a key role in reducing opioid overdose deaths and increasing access to healthcare services. The design and...
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An emergency-department-initiated outreach program for patients with opioid use disorder is associated with an increase in agonist therapy and engagement in addictions care: a one-year cohort study
BackgroundPeople with opioid use disorder (OUD) are high-risk for short-term mortality and morbidity. Emergency department (ED) interventions can...
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Qualitative description of outreach and engagement in perinatal substance treatment in Finland
BackgroundWomen with perinatal substance problems experience a multitude of barriers to care. They have specific early intervention needs, they...
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Capacity Building During Short-Term Surgical Outreach Trips: A Review of What Guidelines Exist
IntroductionWhile short-term surgical outreach trips improve access to care in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), there is rising concern about...
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Surgical outreach for the Americas: a self-sustainable model for partnership and education
IntroductionIt is estimated that up to 28% of global disease burden is surgical with hernias representing a unique challenge as the only definitive...
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Proposing a Model of Proactive Outreach to Advance Clinical Research and Care Delivery for Patients Who Use Tobacco
There are evidence-based treatments for tobacco dependence, but inequities exist in the access to and reach of these treatments. Traditional models...
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“If people are hesitant at all, you just want a really big front door”: a rapid qualitative interview study on the Luton COVID-19 vaccination outreach clinics
BackgroundThere is a lack of evidence on the usefulness, practicality, and acceptance of vaccination outreach clinics in the community especially...
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Learning from the universal, proactive outreach of the Brazilian Community Health Worker model: impact of a Community Health and Wellbeing Worker initiative on vaccination, cancer screening and NHS health check uptake in a deprived community in the UK
BackgroundDelays in preventative service uptake are increasing in the UK. Universal, comprehensive monthly outreach by Community Health and Wellbeing...
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Outreach, Screening, and Randomization of APOE ε4 Carriers into an Alzheimer’s Prevention Trial: A global Perspective from the API Generation Program
BackgroundAlzheimer’s disease (AD) prevention trials require a large outreach and screening funnel to identify cognitively unimpaired adults who meet...
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Realist review of community coalitions and outreach interventions to increase access to primary care for vulnerable populations: a realist review
BackgroundThere are meaningful gaps in equitable access to Primary Health Care (PHC), especially for vulnerable populations after widespread reforms...
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Patient Follow-up After Orthopaedic Outreach Trips – Do We Know Whether Patients are Improving?
BackgroundThe burden of traumatic musculoskeletal injuries falls greatest on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). To help address this burden,...
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Lessons from failure: neurosurgical outreach in Managua, Nicaragua
With respect to the tremendous deficit in surgical care plaguing develo** nations, it is critical that medical outreach models be organized in such...