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

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

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.

Family Physician

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified

Double-Booking the Doctor is Half-Booking the Patient

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 3, 2025

I wrote this in 2016, when my visits were shorter because that EMR was simpler. In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. Government.

Patients

Patients Appointment Patient-Centered Screening

Implementation and Uptake of the Virginia Mental Health Access Program [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Increasing access to primary care clinicians who are better able to screen and treat pediatric mental health conditions can improve mental health and reduce unnecessary ED visits. Analysis: This is a secondary analysis of clinician participation and uptake of consultation and training for pediatric mental health in Virginia between 2016-2023.

Mental Health

Mental Health Internal Medicine DO Family Medicine

Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: A dataset was used, consisting of 350 long-term female breast cancer survivors included between 2013 and 2016 in general practices in the Netherlands. Conclusions ECG and NT-proBNP are inadequate diagnostic tools to screen for mild LVSD among asymptomatic long-term breast cancer survivors. and a specificity of 66.6%

General Practitioner

General Practitioner Primary Care General Practice Diagnose

Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. So that means that we all screen for every domain in our interactions.

Screening

Screening IT Family Families

Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Multiple members of this episode describe challenging experiences with bridging understanding of their elder family members that may mirror dynamics within Asian-American communities more broadly. Effect of a media intervention on hepatitis B screening among Vietnamese Americans. link] Asian American Voices. “My Ethn Health.

Community

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Healthcare

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Katie: Awesome.

Community

Community Transportation IT PCP

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

MARCH 27, 2024

Consider it a supplement to what you remember from Biochemistry and the instructions on the family’s laminated care plan sheet. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. So, importantly, you may not have a positive family history. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs.

Consulting

Consulting Individual Family Families

Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. I had it on my screen. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. Alex: I’ve got to show you the back of the Jersey. Eric: Yeah. Jennifer: Yeah.

Illness

Illness Hospital Patient-Centered Patients

Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

Harvey is probably best known for his work in developing dignity therapy, a psychological intervention designed specifically to address many of the psychological, existential, and spiritual challenges that patients and their families face as death approaches. But once I got into medicine, I found myself attracted to the field of psychiatry.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients IT Illness

A Review of H5N1

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since 2016, HPAI H5N1 has been detected in wild birds in the United States during screening efforts by wildlife authorities. In 1996, a variant of H5N1 was documented overseas that resulted in a severe illness in birds and was designated as highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Provider Manufacturing Screening

Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In terms of their risk, in terms of how we think of preventive health, as we think of screening, all of those things, I would turn around to the geriatricians and say, “Check your implicit bias. A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market.

Mental Health

Mental Health IT Community Individual

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Family Families

Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

Robert was first asked by one of his own patients for assistance in dying in 1991, far before aid in dying was legalized in California in 2016. That’s what I had done with my abortion research, and I had also studied newborn screening policies evolving. This is going to be harmful to them and their family at the end of life.

Provider

Provider Medical Hospital Patient-Centered

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

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Implementation and Uptake of the Virginia Mental Health Access Program [Child and adolescent health]

Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Intentionally Interprofessional Care: DorAnne Donesky, Michelle Milic, Naomi Saks, & Cara Wallace

Episode 213: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 13 – Centering Asian Americans: Racism, Violence, and Health

EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

Conscientous Provision of MAID and Abortion: Robert Brody, Lori Freedman, Mara Buchbinder

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