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Critical Conversations: Improving Goals Of Care Conversations At Southeast Family Medicine, Elizabeth Deyo, Michael Dirks, Tyler Nelson, Katherine Cobb, Nicholas Wolfgang, Hannah Kadavy, Ben Pederson May 2021

Critical Conversations: Improving Goals Of Care Conversations At Southeast Family Medicine, Elizabeth Deyo, Michael Dirks, Tyler Nelson, Katherine Cobb, Nicholas Wolfgang, Hannah Kadavy, Ben Pederson

Milwaukie Family Medicine 2021

Quality Improvement Project - Background

Introduction Goals of care (GOC) conversations are an essential element of high quality patient care across care contexts. At our residency clinic site, Southeast Family Medicine, there currently is not a standardized workflow that encourages and reminds providers to complete and document GOC discussions with their patients. Currently, end of life planning is tracked and monitored primarily through two tools: patient completion of advanced directives and POLST forms. Although these two documents are important, their use and application is at times to general or specific to truly reflect a patient’s perspective on their goals of …


Increasing Hpv Vaccination Rates At Pmg Milwaukie Family Medicine, Sean Brachvogel, Justin Ferley, Jessica Hu, Lauren Moore, Sebastian Reeve, Tyler Reimann, John Yates, Daniel Ruegg May 2021

Increasing Hpv Vaccination Rates At Pmg Milwaukie Family Medicine, Sean Brachvogel, Justin Ferley, Jessica Hu, Lauren Moore, Sebastian Reeve, Tyler Reimann, John Yates, Daniel Ruegg

Milwaukie Family Medicine 2021

Background

Introduction • Between 2013 and 2017 about 45 000 HPV related cancers were diagnosed in the US per year • Of these, cervical cancer is the most common and is almost exclusively caused by HPV • About two thirds of vulvar/vaginal and penile cancers are the result of HPV infection • Vaccination has potential to dramatically reduce incidence of these cancers, and nearly eliminate cervical cancer Nationally, only 51 of teens are fully vaccinated against HPV and Oregon averages 58 59 Background Research and Literature Review Many interventions to improve HPV vaccination rates have been undertaken and studied Interventions …