Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine,as interpreted by individual family physicians a...
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Storylines of Family Medicine is a 12-part series of thematically linked mini-essays with accompanying illustrations that explore the many dimensions of family medicine,as interpreted by individual family physicians and medical educators in the USA and elsewhere around the ***‘Ⅻ:Family medicine and the future of the healthcare system’,authors address the following themes:‘Leadership in family medicine’,‘Becoming an academic family physician’,‘Advocare—our call to act’,‘The paradox of primary care and three simple rules’,‘The quadruple aim—melding the patient and the health system’,‘Fit-for-purpose medical workforce’,‘Universal healthcare—coverage for all’,‘The futures of family medicine’and‘The 100th essay.’May readers of these essays feel empowered to be part of family medicine’s exciting future.
Objective:To characterize complex multimorbidity among cancer survivors and evaluate the association between cancer survivorship,time since cancer diagnosis,and self-reported fair/poor health,self-rated worse health i...
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Objective:To characterize complex multimorbidity among cancer survivors and evaluate the association between cancer survivorship,time since cancer diagnosis,and self-reported fair/poor health,self-rated worse health in 2 years,and 2-year ***:We used the 2010-2012 Health and Retirement *** survivors were indi-viduals who reported a(nonskin)cancer diagnosis 2 years or more before the *** defined complex multimorbidity as the co-occurrence of chronic conditions,functional limitations,and/or geriatric *** addition to descriptive analyses,we used logistic regression to evaluate the independent association between cancer survivor status and health *** also examined whether cancer survivorship differed by the number of years since ***:Among 15,808 older adults(age≥50 years),11.8%were cancer *** with cancer-free individuals,a greater percentage of cancer survivors had complex multimorbidity:co-occurring chronic conditions,functional limitations,and geriatric *** survivor-ship was significantly associated with self-reported fair/poor health,self-rated worse health in 2 years,and 2-year *** effects declined with the number of years since diagnosis for fair/poor health and mortality but not for self-rated worse ***:cancer survivor status is independently associated with more complex multi-morbidity,and with worse health *** effects attenuate with time,except for patient perception of being in worse health.
Objectives To develop an equivalent chinese translation of the Person-centered Primary care Measure(PcPcM)and to establish its cultural adaptability and content validity through cognitive *** The original English PcPc...
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Objectives To develop an equivalent chinese translation of the Person-centered Primary care Measure(PcPcM)and to establish its cultural adaptability and content validity through cognitive *** The original English PcPcM was first translated into chinese by double forward-translation by professional *** reconciliated chinese version was then doubly back-translated into English by two other professional translators blinded to the *** affirmation on its linguistic equivalence with the developers of the original English PcPcM,the reconciliated chinese PcPcM was sent for cognitive debriefing with 20 chinese-speaking primary care subjects by a trained interviewer using structured probing questions to collect their opinions on the clarity,comprehensibility and relevance of each item and response option in the *** Subjects were invited from a primary care clinic in Hong Kong to undergo the cognitive debriefing *** interviews were divided into four groups chronologically to allow revision of the items to be made in *** Ten males and 10 females above the age of 18 completed the cognitive *** were all cantonese-speaking chinese recruited by convenience *** with cognitive impairment,could not read chinese,too old or too sick to complete the interviews were excluded from the *** An average of 3.3 min(range 3-4 min)was required for the subjects to self-complete the *** items were generally perceived to be easily understood and *** were made to items with the content validity index(cVI)on clarity or understandingch round of the interviews or if a majority of the subjects suggested *** were made to two items in the chinese PcPcM throughout the whole cognitive debriefing process before the final version was *** average cVI on clarity of the chinese PcPcM items ranged from 0.75 to *** average cVI on un
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