Impact on diabetes outcomes and team skills of integrating dietetic services into interprofessional education and teamwork in primary care.

Objectives: Diabetes is a complex disease requiring daily self-management of diet and activity, yet many patients do not receive recommended self-management education, medical nutrition therapy, or team-based care that includes registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs). Such service deficits contribute to challenges in meeting combined diabetes care goals. We evaluated the impact of adding RDN-supervised dietetic interns to an established primary care interprofessional education/teamwork model on patients' clinical outcomes and health professions students' team skills.

Piloting a Telehealth Interprofessional Diabetes Clinic During Covid 19: Continuing patient care and student learning.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a team of faculty from dietetics, nursing, pharmacy, and social work converted a long-standing effective Interprofessional Team Care Clinic (IPTCC) at two outpatient health centers to a telehealth clinic during 2020 and 2021. Preliminary data suggest that this pilot telehealth clinic for patients with diabetes or prediabetes was effective in significantly lowering average hemoglobin A1C levels and increasing students' perceived interprofessional skills. This article describes the pilot telehealth interprofessional model used to educate students and provide patient care, outlines preliminary data about its effectiveness, and makes recommendations for future research and practice.

Geographic Variance in Maryland's Potentially Preventable Emergency Visits: Comparison of Explanatory Models.

The use of emergency departments (EDs) for potentially preventable visits is costly and inefficient. In Maryland, about 20%-30% of such visits are ambulatory care sensitive and thus potentially preventable. The uninsured are often perceived to account for a disproportionate share of such visits.

A statewide assessment of smoke-free policy in multiunit housing settings.

Introduction: The prevalence of smoke-free policies in multiunit housing (MUH) in South Dakota was examined. Owner beliefs about smoke-free policies were identified.

Methods: Stratified random sampling included 27 South Dakota counties classified as frontier, large rural, or urban.

Obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a primary disease of cardiac muscle characterized by a thickening of the left ventricular wall and often predominantly affecting the interventricular septum. This paper presents a case study of a 53-year-old female with a dynamic and obstructive form of HCM. The study includes a case presentation, clinical findings, investigations, and management.