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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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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.)

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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.31) and hospitalizations (aIRR 0.74, 95% CI: 0.54-1.02).

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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. Setting: Multiple linked population-based datasets for the province of Ontario, Canada, in 2019.

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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania. Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records.

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Congratulations to our 2019 Graduating Residents!

Louisville Lectures

Graduation 2019 This week, we want to celebrate our graduating residents who’ve helped us with Little Lectures. June is always a bittersweet time in the world of medical education. We wish him luck as he moves forward to a primary care practice home in Tennessee with his talented wife, Rachel.” We’ll miss you!

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Impact of an Intensive Primary Care Service on Health Services Utilization in a High-Utilizer Patient Population [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Population: 143 patients with 2+ hospital admissions or 4+ emergency department (ED) visits for medical indications in 6 months.

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