Publications by authors named "A D Laurie"
Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual care expanded rapidly at Michigan Medicine and other health systems. From family physicians' perspectives, this shift to virtual care has the potential to affect workflow, job satisfaction, and patient communication. As clinics reopened and care delivery models shifted to a combination of in-person and virtual care, the need to understand physician experiences with virtual care arose in order to improve both patient and provider experiences.
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- Familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) variants are linked to more than double the cardiovascular risk compared to controls with similar LDL-C levels, making improved detection methods important.
- In a study of 213 subjects, 14.6% had pathogenic FH variants, and those with variants were generally younger and had higher LDL-C levels and more family members with elevated cholesterol.
- The Besseling model for detecting FH variants showed better discrimination than traditional methods, while established criteria like the Dutch Lipid Clinic Network Score did not significantly improve FH detection.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in rapid changes in how patient care was provided, particularly through the expansion of telehealth and audio-only phone-based care.
Objective: The goal of this study was to evaluate inequities in video and audio-only care during various time points including the initial wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, later stages of the pandemic, and a historical control. We sought to understand the characteristics of care during this time for a variety of different groups of patients that may experience health care inequities.
Background: Virtual care expanded rapidly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how this shift affected healthcare disparities among subgroups of patients is of concern. Racial and ethnic minorities, older adults, individuals with less education, and lower-income households have lower rates of home broadband, smartphone ownership, and patient portal adoption, which may directly affect access to virtual care. Because primary care is a major access point to healthcare, perspectives of primary care providers are critical to inform the implementation of equitable virtual care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCurriculum-Based Dynamic Assessment of Narratives for Bilingual Filipino Children.
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April 2023
Purpose: Speech-language pathologists need tools that can accurately estimate bilingual children's language abilities and thus help avoid misdiagnoses. This study addresses this need by investigating the accuracy of a novel curriculum-based dynamic assessment of narratives in distinguishing bilingual children with language difficulties (LDs) from children with typically developing (TD) language.
Method: Participants comprised 34 Filipino-English bilingual children attending elementary school in English: seven with LDs and 27 with TD language.