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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

clinical consensus, financing mechanisms) and the organization (e.g., Study design and analysis Quasi-experimental design with implementation evaluation guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR; Damschroder et al., Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program.