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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. Phillips, Jr.

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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania. The RF models had an AUROC of 0.87 for CA, 0.85

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Portrait of the reasons of consultation at a walk-in clinic in Quebec, from a patient perspective [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context In walk-in clinics, physicians have limited time with patients. Objective To paint a portrait of the patient's perspective when visiting a walk-in clinic, focusing on the reasons for consulting, concerns, expectations and impact on their lives. Setting Walk-in clinic of an academic family medicine clinic in Quebec, Canada.

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Physician focused practice and added competence on primary care quality for older adults: A propensity score-matched study [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Older adults frequently use primary care services, and family physicians exhibit differences in their knowledge and skills to care for older patients. Objective: To compare family physician practice on established performance measures derived from a modified Delphi process.

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Tobacco Use Screening In Community-Based Primary Care Clinics By Visit Modality During The Covid-19 Pandemic [Smoking cessation]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care delivery was significantly impacted by COVID-19, with rapid deployment of telehealth after the United States’ national public health emergency (PHE) declaration in March 2020. Population Studied: 1,792,934 adult patients with at least 1 telehealth (phone, video) or in-person primary care visit.

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Comparing Patient and Provider Perspectives on a Primary Care Preconsultation Tool for Older Adults: a Qualitative Study [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada. 2019) frameworks for implementation and evaluation. The recruitment of older adults was diversified according to age, gender, and comorbidity.

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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