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Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Challenges persist in securing substantial funding for the Family Medicine (FM) research enterprise, particularly from major sources like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St.

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Descriptive epidemiology of pathogens associated with acute respiratory infection in a study of K-12 school children [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between January 2015 and June 2023, and before and after emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Population Studied: Children aged 4—12 years meeting criteria for ARI.

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Evaluating the National rollout of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) in English general practice [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures: The rates of hazardous prescribing or insufficient medication monitoring and associated serious harm outcomes were calculated quarterly over the study period April 2015 to December 2021. Patients were included in each of the quarterly periods if they met the inclusion criteria for the denominator for any of the indicators.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Also delighted to welcome, Devon Check, who is a health services and implementation researcher, and assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. A research letter in JAMA Network Open reported that in 2015 and 2020, graduates of U.S.