Articles: patients.
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Reliable systems that track the continuation, progression, or resolution of a patient's symptoms over time are essential for reliable diagnosis and ensuring that patients harboring more worrisome diagnoses are safely followed up. Given their first-contact role and increasing stresses on busy primary care clinicians and practices, new processes that make these tasks easier rather than creating more work for busy clinicians are especially needed. ⋯ Working with systems engineers, we are developing prototypes for such systems and are working on their implementation and evaluation. In this commentary, we describe approaches to this essential, but underappreciated, problem in primary care.
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Bessie Anaya, a patient at La Clínica del Pueblo in Washington, D. C. contributes the following patient perspective on diabetes care. The interview in Spanish has been condensed and edited from two conversations with Angela Suarez and Rodrigo Stein, staff at La Clínica del Pueblo. An English translation of the interview follows.
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J. Thorac. Cardiovasc. Surg. · Mar 2023
Editorial CommentCommentary: How to predict a harmonious relationship between patients and their left ventricular assist device?
SIPAT score components seem useful in evaluating psychosocial support for LVAD candidacy. However, a focused LVAD psychosocial score may be more relevant given distinct challenges.