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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. 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.

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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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MAFP Launches Interpreter Access Task Force

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

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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Describing family physicians with 'Care of the Elderly' added training or focused practice: A retrospective cohort study [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

In 1998, a Letter to the Editor in American Family Physician expressed concerns about the relatively new practice of pharmaceutical advertising directly to patients. But a recent perspective in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine pointed out that the rule is silent about advertisements on online and social media platforms.