Screening and Telephone-Based Intervention for Unhealthy Alcohol Use in a Diverse Federally Qualified Health Center System in Texas.

Background: Screening and brief intervention (BI) can reduce risky alcohol use but has not been widely implemented in primary care settings. We sought to implement a screening and telephone-based program within a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

Design: Prior to this program, adult patients were routinely screened using AUDIT-C with no further systematic follow-up.

Preventive Care Needs of the North Carolina Medicaid Expansion Population.

Introduction: Effective December 2023, North Carolina expanded Medicaid eligibility to cover individuals up to 138% of the Federal Poverty Level. The authors sought to understand the preventive care needs of the newly Medicaid-eligible population.

Methods: The authors conducted a repeat cross-sectional analysis using the 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey.

Perspectives of international experts and the Danish citizens on the 'relevant knowledge' that citizens need for making informed choices about participation in cancer screening: Qualitative study.

Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the perspectives of international experts and Danish citizens on relevant knowledge about population-based breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening.

Methods: This was a qualitative interview study with focus group interviews with experts and Danish citizens eligible for breast, colorectal and/or cervical cancer screening. Data were collected using semi-structured interview guides, audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim.

A Resident-Led Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase End-of-Life Planning in Primary Care.

Despite many benefits of end-of-life (EOL) planning, only 1 in 3 adults has EOL documentation, with low rates in resident primary care clinics as well. To increase clinic completion of life-sustaining treatment (LST) notes and advance directives (AD) for veterans at highest risk for death. The setting was a Veterans Affairs (VA) internal medicine primary care clinic.