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Training a diverse physician workforce: a survey of alumni of a medical education program focused on underserved populations [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and Setting: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of PRIME-LA graduates during 2013-2022. Family Medicine was the most common specialty among alumni respondents (29.9%). selected primary care specialties including family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine. identified as Black, and 44.2%

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Declines in Self-reported Panel Size among Family Physicians & Explanatory Factors, 2013-2022 [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Little is known about trends in primary care panel size in the United States, despite it being crucial to the relationships fundamental to primary care’s salutary effects and its importance to workforce planning amidst a national and worsening primary care shortage.

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AAA screening rates in Internal Medicine and Family Medicine at UNMC [Clinical research (other)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Criteria Time Frame: 2013-01-01 to 2023-12-31. Number of patients who meet inclusion criteria at Family Medicine Clinics: 6,551 Patients. Conclusion: There is a need for more screening for AAA in primary care. Those of other races are equally likely to be screened or not screened (p<0.001).

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Delivery of healthcare provider’s lifestyle advice and lifestyle behavioural change in adults who were overweight or obese in pre-diabetes management in the USA NHANES (2013–2018)

BMJ

Our study sample included 1039 eligible adults who were overweight or obese and reported prediabetes from pooled NHANES (2013-2018). Primary care providers play an essential role in motivating patients to change their lifestyles to manage prediabetes. Of those, 76.8%

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Cessation of Public Water Fluoridation Would Increase Tooth Decay

Physician's Weekly

The researchers found that dental caries prevalence and total number of decayed teeth were estimated to increase by 7.5 percentage points and by 25.4 million cases in the base-case scenario of eliminating fluoridation, with a loss of 2.9 million QALYs at a cost of $9.8 billion over five years.

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Scope This! A Podcast on Gastroesophageal Reflux and Gastritis

PEMBlog

2013-0421 Tighe M, Afzal NA, Bevan A, et al. Have a detailed discussion with the patient and family and do shared decision making in terms of interventions, the GI does, and again, these will be the gold standards. So in the odd, rare scenario where you have a family member being treated for H. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

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.