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

Annals of Family Medicine

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. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania.

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Tobacco Use Screening In Community-Based Primary Care Clinics By Visit Modality During The Covid-19 Pandemic [Smoking cessation]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care delivery was significantly impacted by COVID-19, with rapid deployment of telehealth after the United States’ national public health emergency (PHE) declaration in March 2020. In the years following the PHE, rates of screening for tobacco use decreased, particularly during telehealth visits.

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MAFP Launches Interpreter Access Task Force

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Resolution 2021-09 : Support for high-quality interpreter services, along with research, patient rights awareness, advocacy, expanded access, interpreter protections and telehealth strategies. Resolution 2019-17A : Monitoring and evaluating legislation related to interpreter training, access and quality standards.

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HPM Welcomes 15-Year DOJ Veteran, John W.M. Claud, to the Firm

FDA Law

He also held leading roles in DOJ’s response to multiple significant national health crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2019 EVALI vaping crisis, and the 2012 New England Compounding Center fungal meningitis outbreak.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

GeriPal

But back in 2019, there was a lot of disagreement in our group about whether for a patient with cancer and cancer related pain and a substance use disorder, whether palliative care was the appropriate specialty to care for those patients.