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Improving Care For Lgbtq+ Patients, Justin Henningsen Jan 2024

Improving Care For Lgbtq+ Patients, Justin Henningsen

Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects

LGBTQ+ patients are at higher risks for many health conditions. Providers and staff are not always comfortable supporting conversations about gender and sexuality. In this project, I provided training to staff members of Hardwick Area Health Center on risks and best practices.


Cigarette Smoking Cessation Tool, Pavan K. Anant Jan 2024

Cigarette Smoking Cessation Tool, Pavan K. Anant

Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects

In Vermont, tobacco use disorder is a pervasive problem that closely rivals national averages. The Cigarette Smoking Cessation Tool seeks to identify patients with significant motivation to quit smoking cigarettes' and aims to connect them with appropriate local resources and clinic advocates.


Empowering Patients Undergoing Speculum Exam, Sarah Caffry Jan 2024

Empowering Patients Undergoing Speculum Exam, Sarah Caffry

Family Medicine Clerkship Student Projects

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Evaluation And Modeling Of Factors Associated With Urine Drug Testing Appointment Absences, Rui Xu Jan 2024

Evaluation And Modeling Of Factors Associated With Urine Drug Testing Appointment Absences, Rui Xu

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Why doesn’t a patient show up for their appointment? Is it too far? Are there too many appointments? Or something else? Urine drug testing clinics often observe patient scheduled visit absenteeism, and this can be used as a data source to answer our questions and explore other potential correlations between factors. With a well-developed electronic health data system, a retrospective study was performed on a large data set collected between January 2019 and December 2021 across the U.S. and more than half a million patient encounters; it contained nearly a year of quarantine, and pandemic status was also analyzed as …


Evaluation And Modeling Of Factors Associated With Urine Drug Testing Appointment Absences, Rui Xu Jan 2024

Evaluation And Modeling Of Factors Associated With Urine Drug Testing Appointment Absences, Rui Xu

Graduate College Dissertations and Theses

Why doesn’t a patient show up for their appointment? Is it too far? Are there too many appointments? Or something else? Urine drug testing clinics often observe patient scheduled visit absenteeism, and this can be used as a data source to answer our questions and explore other potential correlations between factors. With a well-developed electronic health data system, a retrospective study was performed on a large data set collected between January 2019 and December 2021 across the U.S. and more than half a million patient encounters; it contained nearly a year of quarantine, and pandemic status was also analyzed as …