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

The Health Policy Exchange

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.) According to MedChi , the average practice received $176,000 in care management fees in 2019.

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"Survival Mode": Experiences of moral distress in Canadian primary care professionals during and after the COVID-19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This project explored the presence, nature, and effects of moral distress in Canadian primary healthcare professionals from two provinces during (March 2020-May 2023) and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Setting: Two group family medicine practices in Ontario and Alberta, Canada.

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Electronic consultation questions asked to addiction medicine specialists by primary care providers: Retrospective content analysis

Canadian Family Physician

Design A descriptive, retrospective study of the eConsult cases submitted to addiction medicine specialists between January 1, 2020, and December 31, 2021. The most common question types involved pharmacologic (77.5%) and nonpharmacologic (65.1%) management of patients with substance use. Setting Champlain region of eastern Ontario.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs. and 6.1%, respectively).

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Early in the film, family physician Dr. Erin Martin, is featured. I ended up opening Noreta Family Medicine in 2020, a Direct Primary Care (DPC). At Noreta Family Medicine, I block 60 minutes per follow up visit. She is about to leave her job due to mounting financial pressures at her practice. minutes long.

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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

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. Objective To provide a comprehensive overview of primary care use among community-dwelling persons with dementia in Quebec from 2018 to 2020.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

Austria 14 Canada 15 France 16 Norway 17 Japan 18 USA 19 Sweden 20 Average GP visits 336 238 235 214 206 101 87 202 Specialist visits 284 70 98 91 70 102 44 108 Hospitalizations 38 8 28 14 6 7 13 16 Family physicians provide accessible and comprehensive care for most healthcare needs, most diseases, and all organs.