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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 for NS, and 0.92

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Virtual Visits in Prenatal Care: Benefits/Limitations, Uptake, and Patient Perceptions [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many clinics shifted to a virtual visit format. Setting or Dataset: Chart reviews from an urban safety-net clinic in Anchorage, AK comparing pre-pandemic, during-pandemic and post-pandemic cohorts. Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings.

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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

Some family physicians pursue added training or focus their medical practice to increasingly care for older adults, which may influence quality of care and patient outcomes. Setting: Multiple linked population-based datasets for the province of Ontario, Canada, in 2019. Family physicians were matched 1: 4 using a caliper of 0.2.

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National variation in ASCVD risk between Pooled Cohort Equations and PREVENT [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis This study utilized data from NHANES 2011-2019 to calculate two ASCVD risk scores for each eligible individual: one using the race-based PCE and the other using the race-agnostic PREVENT equation. Each individual was separated into clinically significant risk categories of <7.5%, 7.5-10%,

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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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9 Technologies That Will Shape The Future Of Dentistry

The Medical Futurist

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. Researchers in 2019 developed a machine learning method to accurately quantify immune cells in the vicinity of oral cancer cells.

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MAFP Launches Interpreter Access Task Force

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Legislative Action to Improve Interpreter Access Barriers persist in accessing live interpreters at clinics across Minnesota, even though systems are in place. The MAFP is in support of these bills and any effort to bridge the language gap between patients and health care providers. Interested? Email us.