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Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate comprehensiveness of care measure reliability for clinicians and advanced practice practitioners (e.g. nurse practitioners and physician assistants), as well as validity of the measure and its association with poorly controlled diabetes (e.g. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study).

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Clinician types included family medicine (FM), internal medicine (IM), pediatric medicine (PED), general practice (GP), obstetrics/gynecology (OB), nurse practitioner (NP), and physician assistant (PA). These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". In 2019, 14.5% Context: Primary healthcare is the front door to the health system, facilitating access to diagnostic testing and specialist care. of Canadians (approximately 4.6

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HHS Eliminates CDC Staff Who Made Sure Birth Control Is Safe for Women at Risk

Physician's Weekly

CDC data from 2019, the most recent available, shows that more than 47 million women ages 15 to 49 relied on birth control. The CDC information “is the final say in safety,” said Patty Cason, a family nurse practitioner and president of Envision Sexual and Reproductive Health. use contraception.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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2021 Association of Hospice Profit Status With Family Caregivers’ Reported Care Experiences. She’s a hospice and palliative care nurse practitioner and Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at UCSF. One was to deliver excellent care to dying people and their families. JAMA Health Forum. Eric: Great.

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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. And the other thing I would add is if you look at the number of board certified geriatricians, it’s grown as far back as I could see since 2019 where we were at 6670 and we’re now at 7413. We don’t have a geriatrician.

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In a First, Trump and GOP-Led Congress Prepare To Swell Ranks of U.S. Uninsured

Physician's Weekly

In KFF poll results released in June, nearly two-thirds of people surveyed viewed the bill unfavorably and more than half said they were worried federal funding cuts would hurt their family’s ability to obtain and afford health care. “Now I have to wait another year,” she said.