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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

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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

Context: Comprehensiveness of care represents an important process measure within the contexts of primary care for core services. These services represent the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

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. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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Obesity Linked to Financial Hardship, Food Insecurity

Physician's Weekly

WEDNESDAY, July 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is associated with financial hardship and food insecurity, according to a research letter published online June 24 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The final sample included 143,271 adults with normal weight (18.5

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Incidence Rates of Appendiceal Adenocarcinoma Increasing

Physician's Weekly

MONDAY, June 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The incidence rates of appendiceal adenocarcinoma (AA) increased after 1945, according to a study published online June 10 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Andreana N. Holowatyj, Ph.D.,

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Breast Cancer Incidence Trends Vary by Age

Physician's Weekly

million women diagnosed with breast cancer from 2001 through 2019. Lee Argov, M.P.H., from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York City, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study in which they disaggregated U.S. The analysis included data from approximately 2.3

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Hyperinsulinemia Linked to Abnormal Uterine Bleeding

Physician's Weekly

from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in California, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study from June 2019 to August 2023 at a single institution’s outpatient gynecology clinic involving 205 premenopausal women aged 18 to 54 years: 116 with AUB and 89 with normal menstrual cycles. Salcedo, D.O.,