Building Authentic Connection in the Patient-Physician Relationship.

Introduction/objectives: Delivering optimal patient care is impacted by a physician's ability to build trusting relationships with patients. Identifying techniques for rapport building is important for promoting patient-physician collaboration and improved patient outcomes. This study sought to characterize the approaches highly skilled primary care physicians (PCPs) use to effectively connect with diverse patients.

Food insecurity, social needs, and smoking status among patients in a county hospital system.

Tobacco use in the U.S. is increasingly concentrated among populations with socioeconomic disadvantages such as food insecurity.

A Framework for Evaluating Social Determinants of Health Screening and Referrals for Assistance.

Introduction/objectives: Many health systems screen patients for social determinants of health and refer patients with social needs to community service organizations for assistance. We developed a framework based on sequential steps to evaluate this process.

Methods: We reviewed efforts by The MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio and identified 6 sequential steps: patient screened, has social needs, consents to referral to a service organization, referral placed, referral accepted, and referral outcome.

Leadership development for orthopaedic trauma surgeons in Latin America: opportunities for and barriers to skill acquisition.

Introduction: There is growing interest in leadership courses for physicians. Few opportunities are available in global regions with limited resources. This study describes orthopaedic trauma surgeons' desired leadership skill acquisition, opportunities, and barriers to course participation in Latin America.

Membrane-Permeant, Environment-Sensitive Dyes Generate Biosensors within Living Cells.

Dyes with environment-sensitive fluorescence have proven useful to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of protein activity in living cells. When attached to proteins, their fluorescence can reflect protein conformational changes, post-translational modifications, or protein interactions. However, the utility of such dye-protein conjugates has been limited because it is difficult to load them into cells.