The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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CDOCS

JUNE 3, 2019

Based on each patient's digital scans, the clinician receives a precise, customized digital treatment plan and, upon approval, an Azento box for the specific case, containing all the components and instruments necessary to perform a complete implant treatment.</p> Now Azento has crossed the Atlantic for the European launch.</p>

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Family Medicine Initiative

MAY 7, 2025

So far I had only one patient with a fishhook injury, but it was a story to remember! There are four common methods for removing a fishhook, which are explained well in the journal American Family Physician : Retrograde : the simplest method, but it only works in some cases. And don’t forget about lidocaine when needed.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? mg or placebo in 2019. semaglutide 2.4

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline (2023): “It is not yet established that patients at high risk of developing AF by a validated risk score benefit from screening.” UK National Screening Committee (2019): “Screening is not currently recommended for this condition.” erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative.

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StorytellERdoc

MARCH 1, 2019

I can't pinpoint the moment exactly, but several years ago I began to notice that many of our ER patients were presenting for treatment wearing nice fluffy fleece bottoms. Most of these earlier bottoms for the younger patients were of superheroes and childhood figures, like kitties and ponies. So were Mom, Dad, and her older brother.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". In 2019, 14.5% To address ongoing challenges with patient access and attachment to a primary care provider, several Canadian provinces introduced primary healthcare centralized wait lists (CWL).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Patients in both groups averaged approximately 12 ED visits, 5.7

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 5, 6) b. 1, 8, 9) d.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study compared the perspectives of patients and providers using ESOGER, a novel multidimensional assessment tool for older adults. 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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

The patients ranged in age from 6 months to 17 years (median age, 7.9 of the patients required an additional epinephrine dose after 2 hours. Dribin added, “I think the bigger impact would be for the patients and families…parents being able to go back to work quicker, children missing less school. years); 43.9% at 8 hours.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 6, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Health Equity Committee has identified a need for an Interpreter Access Task Force to help identify gaps and barriers to interpreter access across the state. The MAFP is in support of these bills and any effort to bridge the language gap between patients and health care providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

png]</p> <p><span style="font-family:ubuntu; font-size:12px">​</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">By putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients, we can easily see the comfort and trust our patients have developed with their general dentists.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. in 2019, with 78% receiving radiation therapy and 22% undergoing surgery.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Several years ago, my daughter Emma introduced me to some videos on YouTube of a dermatologist from California who posted her sometimes shocking but always intriguing encounters with patients who suffered from a variety of dermatologic issues. Yes, white and brown and green and black pus still oozed from the majority of her patients.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

  Whitnee Brown, a PMHNP and Doctor of Nursing Practice in Birmingham, Alabama, and her patient Lisa Roberts of Huntsville, shared their stories in support of the survey results, which can be viewed here.  This spring’s survey focused on antidepressants and how Americans view them. Roberts is on a medication that works for her. exclaimed Ms.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2019-1187 Lindsey MA, Brown DR, Cunningham M.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2019-1187 9. Published December 17, 2019.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 22, 2025

While we pride ourselves on providing high-quality care for all children, we must acknowledge that the noisy, fast-paced, and unpredictable environment of the ED can be especially distressing for autistic patients. Encourage families to bring All About Me sheets or care cards that summarize critical accommodations. 2019-1895L.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This is a blog post designed to disseminate the important work of Choosing Wisely , an initiative of the the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, the goal of which is the spark conversations between clinicians and patients about what tests, treatments, and procedures are needed – and which ones are not. isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

During this ED visit, the family notes that the child has had 1 week of vomiting whenever he eats. The patient has had improving activity and energy since his fall and initial ED evaluation 2 weeks prior. This patient had a subsequent brain MRI that also revealed papilledema. 40,3 (2019): 388-395. 12,4 e228790.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The family denies any sore throat, abdominal pain, diarrhea, vomiting, conjunctivitis. F), HR 140, RR 12, BP 104/67, sat 99% on room air The patient was crying and appeared uncomfortable Moist mucous membranes. Papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome The patient was diagnosed with papular purpuric gloves and socks syndrome (PPGSS).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Measurements. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Providing our patients with more space and ensuring our patients feel human again is a great first step. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 2019:185-194. BMC Public Health. 2022;22(1):1630.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I've bought candles for pretty much everyone in my family and I love the personalized candles and being able to customize the label to each person. ProCompression Socks Throwback pic from one of my 2018-2019 24hr call shifts I swear by Pro Compression socks! Plus they smell amazing! I use black in 0.7

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The Health Policy Exchange

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Our recent Georgetown Health Policy Journal Club discussed two editorials in the October 1 issue of American Family Physician that offered contrasting answers to the question: "Would Medicare for All Be the Most Beneficial Health Care System for Family Physicians and Patients?" trillion annually.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A US-based study conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 69% of patients reported avoiding discussions about death, but 92% reported feeling somewhat comfortable talking to a heath care provider about EOL wishes. Of the 11 patients with PPD documented as home, 5 (45%) died at home. Intervention/Instrument: N/A.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physicians are central to managing the medical needs of older adults. Some family physicians pursue additional training to become certified as having additional competence in ‘Care of the Elderly’ and/or apply for "focused practice" status to care for older patients.

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Metro Family Physicians

APRIL 19, 2023

The 2019-2020 season INFLUENZA deaths in the US were 34,200 out of 35.5 Steph was intubated the morning of 4/17/2020, one of 52 patients on ventilators in the ICU. Since patients are heavily sedated while on the vent, she spent the next 10 days in the hospital being tapered down from these medications. As I write this, the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

We all must recognize the codification of racism within our institutions and work to unlearn these hierarchies in order to better care for Black and Indigenous patients. Clinicians are able to shape the environment in which people give birth by caring for the earth and their patients. and a professor.”

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

difficulty of sending patient messages through the electronic medical record in languages other than English), limited healthcare literacy, and English-only signage on healthcare campuses are just a few of the structurally racist barriers faced by many Asian folks seeking healthcare. Insufficient language services (i.e.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Dozens of listeners responded with their stories, including Bob, who is being identified only by his first name to guard his family’s privacy and whose daughter has epilepsy. Bob’s journey here begins in 2019 — the first day of high school for his daughter, Mary. Claire: Ok, so…Dan, let’s take a step back.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. AFP 2019 Gabapentin for chronic neuropathic pain in adults. Tasce: Yes.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Early data on efficacy in patients with anxiety and demoralization are promising. Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). Research is exploding. You’ve been trained?

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