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Describing Differences Across Place and Provider in Canadian Team-Based Care Settings Using Electronic Health Records [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

In both cases, TBC can help by providing a collaborative approach to care that can better manage the complex needs of patients. The system is used by different provider types to document needs and care in both urban and rural settings. Analysis We apply topic modeling to the codes recorded for clients.

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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. According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. 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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Association between family medicine residents practice intentions and their initial professional activities [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Amidst the ongoing crisis in family medicine (FM) in Canada, there is an increased need to gauge the future practice patterns of family physicians (FPs). Examining the intentions of FM learners provides insight into the future practice behaviors of FPs.

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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% million people aged 12 and older) were unattached to a regular primary care provider. of Canadians (approximately 4.6

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Outcomes associated with timing of screening for gestational diabetes [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Women with singleton pregnancies who received prenatal care from a family physician MaRNet-FP sentinel between July 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 and who also delivered within that timeframe were included. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

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