ConferenceJ Gen Intern Med · May 18, 2026
BACKGROUND: Social risks (adverse social and economic conditions) exert greater impact on health than clinical care. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) conducts annual clinical screenings for food insecurity, housing insecurity, and intimate partner v ...
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ConferenceBMJ Open Qual · June 2023
BACKGROUND: Interprofessional primary care (PC) teams are key to the provision of high-quality care. PC providers often 'share' patients (eg, a patient may see multiple providers in the same clinic), resulting in between-visit interdependence between provi ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · March 1, 2018
4 Background: The growing number of colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors often have multiple chronic conditions. Comparing CRC survivors and matched non-cancer controls, our objectives were to determine the odds of CRC survivors bei ...
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ConferenceJournal of Clinical Oncology · January 20, 2016
e267 Background: Our objective was to evaluate VA CRC incidence and survival and compare with the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data. Methods: Data were obtained from VACCR for vet ...
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ConferenceLaryngoscope · June 2012
OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS: Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is an aggressive cutaneous neoplasm that occurs most frequently in the head and neck region. Because of its rarity, prognostic factors are poorly characterized. Head and neck MCC (HN-MCC) may require separ ...
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ConferenceMedical Physics · January 1, 2012
Purpose: Gaussian smoothing reduces noise in PET images but blurs edges impacting the achievable accuracy in radiotherapy target segmentation. Bilateral filters both provide smoothing while simultaneously preserving edges. We compared the accuracy of four ...
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