2015, DO and Medical - Primary Care Digest

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Family Medicine

Family Medicine DO Families Family

>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Policy solutions require insight into complex patterns of training from medical school graduation through specialty training into PC careers. Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015. Others (32%, 1697) left PC to train in IM or Peds subspecialties, emergency medicine, or other fields.

Primary Care

Primary Care Medical Education Family Medicine

Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Drug reimbursement claims were used to identify periods of overlapping exposure to 2 or more prescription drugs between April 1, 2015 and March 31, 2016. Study design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study using provincial administrative health databases. DDI were identified using the list of high-priority DDI of the U.S.

Family Physician

Family Physician Community Insurance Consulting

Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Administrative data from the Optum Labs Data Warehouse 2015-2019 that contains de-identified medical and pharmacy claims and eligibility information for commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees in the US. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Primary Care

Primary Care Management Utilities Chronic Condition

Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design and analysis: A retrospective matched cohort study using data from more than 70 Dutch general practices collected from 2015 until 2023. Objective: To investigate whether the cardiovascular risk management of Dutch GPs differs in patients with and without depression.

General Practice

General Practice GP Management Patients

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

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Joseph, P.C.,

Family Physician

Family Physician Families Family Primary Care

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between January 2015 and June 2023, and before and after emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Better understanding of the etiology, presentations, and patterns of pediatric acute respiratory infections can help inform medical and public health system responses to future outbreaks.

Community

Community Families Family Provider

HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health record data and chart review with chi square testing of the association of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine with child, clinician, healthcare processes.

Vaccination

Vaccination Family Medicine DO Primary Care

Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. Outcome measures: 1) yearly prevalence and incidence of exposure to at least one high-priority DDI.

Primary Care

Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To evaluate the effectiveness of the national roll out of PINCER to reduce the prevalence of patient exposure to hazardous prescribing and insufficient medication monitoring, and the incidence of serious harm in patients at risk of hazardous prescribing.

General Practice

General Practice Primary Care Clinical Practice Patients

Fetal Infant Mortality Review: The Humanizing Experience of the Family Interview [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Mixed-method convergent design, combining quantitative secondary analysis of records from 158 stillbirth and infant deaths reviewed by Kalamazoo County FIMR from 2015 to 2023, and qualitative semi-structured interviews with 26 national FIMR stakeholders. versus 0.8, 01), person-centered decision-making (average 0.5

Families

Families Family Utilities Education

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Lastly, we discuss Katie’s paper on substance use disorder in an aging population and how one can incorporate the 5 Ms (ie, matters most, medications, mind, mobility, and multicomplexity) into a framework for age-friendly care for older adults with substance use disorder. But alcohol and opioids are up there.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Individuals living in the community aged 65 and older, diagnosed with SMI, who received a first dementia diagnosis between January 2013 and December 2015.

Diagnosis

Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

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.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Primary Care Physician Family Medicine

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

>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Cardiovascular risk management of patients with depression in Dutch general practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

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

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

HPV Vaccine Secondary Acceptance: Turning No into a Yes! [Child and adolescent health]

Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

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

Fetal Infant Mortality Review: The Humanizing Experience of the Family Interview [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

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

Impact of home care on healthcare use after a first diagnosis of dementia in older adults living with severe mental illness [Geriatrics]

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

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