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

The Health Policy Exchange

CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) Finally, it seems awkward and unrealistic for a family doctor to tell a specialist that his or her practice style is too aggressive, even if there's good data to back it up. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention. The film talks about some of the escape fires of healthcare, including non-opioid pain treatments, nutrition programs, strong doctor-patient relationships, among others. minutes long.

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"Sludge audits" identify obstacles to completing colorectal cancer screening

Common Sense Family Doctor

Even in a population where everyone has the same health insurance, having more social needs is associated with lower CRC screening rates.

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Is there enough time for prevention in primary care?

Common Sense Family Doctor

Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively. Meanwhile, the estimated time needed to provide guideline-recommended preventive care, chronic disease care, and acute care to a nationally representative panel of 2,500 adult patients is an impossible 26.7

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

in 2020, with higher percentages of patients with more favorable pathology or lower PSA levels choosing one of these strategies. Of note, men older than 80 years were more than four times as likely to choose observation than men in their 50s (24.9% and 6.1%, respectively).

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. The local family doctor wants to use antibiotics and we need to know whether we should fly to Dubai. COVID has clearly driven remote care. A conversation for sure.

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PSA screening: shared decision making is a flawed approach

Common Sense Family Doctor

In early 2020, I accepted an invitation to participate in a live debate with a nationally prominent academic urologist at the annual scientific meeting of the American Society for Men's Health. The topic: "The Great Debate of the 21st Century: To PSA screen or not to screen."