Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural facilities report challenges and solutions to meet community needs for specialty care. From 2012 to 2022, rural supply decreased for pulmonologists (-41.7%), neurologists (-16.5%), and cardiologists (-5.6%); oncologists increased (20.0%). Objective: This study sought to analyze changes in the U.S. urban), neurologists (1.09

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Community Hospital Appointment 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

Hospital 52

Hospital Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 11, 2025

A recent article in the BMJ summarized a National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guideline on identification and management of gambling-related harms. Psychology Today maintains a national directory of therapists with training in CBT for gambling disorder. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog.

Management 52

Management Referral Mental Health Community 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent editorial in the Journal of the American Heart Association discussed a “paradigm shift” in management of severe aortic stenosis: 69% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries who underwent aortic valve replacement from 2012-2019 had TAVI, with the percentage undergoing SAVR falling from 75% in 2012 to just 10% in 2019.

Hospital 52

Hospital Management Patients Clinic 52

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. There was this big thing called the CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care, started in 2012. These are families who are in distress. Eric: Although pregabalin, right, more misuse of pregabalin out in the community.

Patient-Centered 96

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical 96

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We’ve invited two death doulas, Jane Euler and John Loughnane (who is also a family doc and palliative care physician), to talk about the role of a doula at the end of life. And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. How do you see the light?

Provider 119

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 119