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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Population Studied: 1,792,934 adult patients with at least 1 telehealth (phone, video) or in-person primary care visit.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Telehealth Community

"Walking this line:" Primary Care Practice experiences with workforce strain since the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Interprofessional primary care teams can improve quality of care, reduce health care costs, decrease burnout, and improve patient experiences. Setting: Eighteen primary care practices and systems across the United States (US) diverse in size, location, composition, and 2019-2020 revenue change.

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Where are counties with consistently low rates of primary care physician capacity and high percentages of Black populations? [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physician shortages are well documented and expected to worsen, particularly in specific regions in the US. Further, racial and ethnic minorities, particularly Black populations, have less access to primary care and worse health outcomes compared to white populations.

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Racial and Disaggregated Ethnic Disparities of Blood Pressure Control in Community Health Centers [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: 953 community-based primary care clinics in a national network from 25 states across the United States. Population: Adults 18+ years old with ≥1 primary care ambulatory visit in the network from 2012-2020, with at least one high-risk condition (heart, vascular, or chronic kidney disease, or diabetes).

Hypertension

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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A portrait of primary care use in community dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec between 2018 and 2020 [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. However, there is still a gap in understanding who has access to primary care and who maintains continuity of care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Family Physician Diagnosis

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Next up, we chat with Liz Bayliss about her JAMA IM article that studied whether increasing awareness about deprescribing prior to primary care visits can reduce the use of potentially inappropriate long-term medications for individuals with cognitive impairment. So people could live in the community. Elizabeth: Nice to be here.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Primary Care Screening Family Physician DO

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

But at the end of the day, I actually view medicine more as an applied science. So we take that science and we apply it to something that’s very messy and chaotic, like a human being or a community or a population. I think it started off from a need, a hunger in the community. A love letter kind of back to my community.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Family medicine is neither the most prestigious nor the highest paid medical profession. Should GPs actually be treated as the stars of medicine? As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue.

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Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Relationships between patients and clinicians are at the core of primary care values. Setting or Dataset: The Green Center fielded surveys in partnership with the Primary Care Collaborative and 3rd Conversation. Patients indicated full-scope primary care even with telemedicine and social isolation.

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Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000780 Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the biggest cause of death from non-communicable disease in the world. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM).

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.

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

"Walking this line:" Primary Care Practice experiences with workforce strain since the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Trending Sources

Where are counties with consistently low rates of primary care physician capacity and high percentages of Black populations? [Health care disparities]

Racial and Disaggregated Ethnic Disparities of Blood Pressure Control in Community Health Centers [Hypertension]

Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

A portrait of primary care use in community dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec between 2018 and 2020 [Health care disparities]

Deprescribing Super Special Part II: Podcast with Elizabeth Bayliss, Ariel Green, and Kevin McConeghy

Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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

8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

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