Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of electronic medical data obtained from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN-CPCSSN). 2020-2022). We also explore anemia prevalence to see if results converge as these two health conditions are closely related.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. Outcome measures: Average number of prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests per encounters among primary care providers in Nova Scotia from 2007 to 2022.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Data on the impacts of COVID-19 on preventative primary care are still emerging. Restrictions and subsequent adaptions to routine care may have affected a variety of outcomes for young children including growth and development, referral rates and wait times, and the identification and management of developmental delays.

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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.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Increased workload associated with electronic visits (eVisits) in primary care could potentially be decreased by the use of artificial intelligence (AI); however, it is unknown whether this use of AI would be acceptable to staff and patients. We analyzed verbatim transcripts using thematic analysis.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic created many barriers for clinicians to deliver primary care and for parents/caregivers to access primary care for their young children. Outcome Measures: Innovative primary care programs and services for children < 6 years old during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Longer-duration interventions have demonstrated reduction of physiological parameters such as systolic blood pressure (Carlton 2007; Loucks 2019; Lee 2020). However, MBI brief enough for the primary care setting have received little attention.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Telehealth became an essential tool to assist care delivery in the outpatient primary care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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OCFM

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite primary care providers’ (PCPs) ability to effectively treat depression, encouraging individuals to seek and return to treatment is challenging. Setting: MTurk online cloud research toolkit (Feb-March 2020). Study Design: Outcome evaluation of RCT comparing HS and C using pre-post design (2 weeks).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care physicians regularly implore patients to buy and eat healthy foods. Background. But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods? It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007).

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OCFM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The directors and original staff of the Ambulatory Sentinel Practice Network/National Research Network united to review the establishment and operation of the first US national primary care practice based research network during its first 40 years. Intervention: None.

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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).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2020 and 2021, CDC guidelines changed recommended treatment for both GC and CT. 52.7% (n=2311/4385) were diagnosed in a Hospital / ED setting, 25.2% (1107) within a primary care setting, and 18.1% in an urgent care setting. of positive tests had no documented treatment (n=122).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: Determine referral patterns from primary care (PC) to integrated behavioral health (BH) for populations with and without multiple CCs; Identify post-referral treatment initiation patterns for integrated BH among patients with and without CCs.

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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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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Measurements. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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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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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. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast. Elizabeth: Nice to be here.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dataset: Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) database.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The exposure was COVID-19 era (pre = March 10, 2018-March 10, 2020; during = March 11, 2020-March 11, 2022). Setting: Electronic Medical Record data from primary care clinics in the University of Toronto Practice Based-Research Network Data Safe Haven and Northern Ontario School of Medicine Research Toward Health Hub (Ontario, Canada).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. These results will inform a primary care tool that uses artificial intelligence/machine learning to predict those individuals at high risk for diabetes progression.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

According to the CDC, “About 697,000 people in the United States died from heart disease in 2020– that’s 1 in every 5 deaths”. Know Your Values: Please go see your primary care physician to get blood tests done. Family Genetics: If you can, ask your loved ones about their medical history (especially parents and siblings).

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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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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Primary health care workers are a critical component of immunization services, a part of preventive health services. Family health centers are the facilities where the vaccination intention is much more vital, as they carry out the contact and case follow-ups during the pandemic and are the center of vaccination application.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. That was January 2020. I was, you know, in the ICU over at Brigham and Women’s leading a Covid sort of palliative care team. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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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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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. million person-years of routinely collected primary care data.

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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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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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