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Plast Surg (Oakv)
January 2025
Division of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
In May 2022, we challenged our colleagues to evaluate their educational approaches, policies, recruitment strategies, and leadership organizations with an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) lens. Two virtual national round table meetings were held in 2023 to discuss approaches to integration of the EDI principles into current Canadian plastic surgery training programmes. Additionally, integrative documents and processes were established within our programme to act as a guide for integration of the principles of EDI in the areas of resident education, recruitment, and retention.
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December 2024
Centre de biologie et de recherche en santé, pharmacologie, toxicologie et pharmacovigilance, CHU de Limoges, 87042 Limoges, France.
4P medicine (personalized, preventive, predictive, and participatory) is experiencing a remarkable rise, and pharmacogenetics is an essential part of it. However, several obstacles are hindering its deployment. This round table brought together a group of experts to take stock of the situation, reflecting on ways to facilitate the prescription of these tests and the dissemination of the results on a national scale.
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January 2025
From the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, CA (IRF, EEH, CAS); Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Office of Research and Scholarship, Pasadena, CA (RG, MCD); Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Department of Health Systems Science, Pasadena, CA (BBG, RSN, QNM); Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA (BBN); Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, OR (GDC); Department of Research and Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (EEH); Hawaii Permanente Medical Group, Honolulu, HI (SAH); The Southeast Permanente Medical Group, Atlanta, GA (KK); Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Oakland, CA (TRL); Institute for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Colorado, Aurora, CO (CAS).
Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. While patient-reported barriers have been previously described, few studies have analyzed how patients' social needs affect screening rates.
Methods: This cross-sectional study includes 3,443 Kaiser Permanente (KP) patients ages 50 to 75 years who completed the 2020 KP National Social Needs Survey.
Orphanet J Rare Dis
December 2024
Medicine for Society, Platform at Amsterdam University Medical Center - University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: The combination of high prices and uncertain effectiveness is a growing challenge in the field of orphan medicines, hampering health technology assessments. Hence, new methods for establishing price benchmarks might be necessary to support reimbursement negotiations. In this study, we applied several pricing models containing cost-based elements to the case of lumasiran for treating primary hyperoxaluria type 1.
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December 2024
Université de Paris, CRESS, AP-HP, 75000 Paris, France.
In France, the short-stay activities of public and private sector healthcare facilities have been financed since 2004 by activity-based pricing (T2A). The principle is to allow for payment determined primarily by the nature and volume of activities. T2A has enabled a major transformation compared to the old financing system, chiefly for public sector facilities that used to operate under a general allocation, and convergence between payment methods in the public and private sectors.
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