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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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Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system. Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician.

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Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. This is the first RCT that was available for coaching in physicians. [link] 5.

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Debating the pros and cons of Medicare for All

The Health Policy Exchange

primary care physicians accept Medicare, and Medicare enrollment has been associated with improvements in age-specific mortality relative to peer nations. Finally, he observed that many of the things that frustrate family physicians about the current [U.S. He pointed out that 93% of U.S. trillion annually.

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Well-being at work among general practitioners working in multidisciplinary primary care teams [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

In many Western countries, transforming primary care (PC) systems involves changes in how work is organised, especially through the development of multidisciplinary teams. We conducted a secondary analysis of the data of the 2019 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians.

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Wait Times: Direct Primary Care vs. Traditional Primary Care

The Direct Doctors Difference

In 2019 we discussed the basics of why patients wait a long time to hear back, get through on the phone lines, or be seen with a primary care doctor. ​ As more primary care physicians become “burned out” with the day to day grind of a typical primary care practice.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

Hence, we conducted this study to determine the risk perceptions of primary care workers for COVID-19 vaccines and the predictive factors in their willingness to have the COVID-19 vaccine before vaccination, which started on January 14, 2021, in Turkey. Immunization, 2019. REFERENCES World Health Organization. BMC Fam Pract.