Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

2020-2022). Context: Iron deficiency (ID) is a common and preventable micronutrient deficiency, affecting cognitive development, immune function, and well-being of individuals, and leading to substantial health care costs. We examined the prevalence of anemia over the same time period.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. The Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. However, it is unclear whether results would generalize to other healthcare populations.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument Patient-reported social needs collected as part of the 2020 Kaiser Permanente (KP) National Social Needs Survey. Population Patients aged 24-64 years who were eligible for cervical cancer screening per USPSTF guidelines (N=1,917). Having health insurance may mitigate the risk of missed screenings in patients with social needs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

2020, stratified by rurality and payer. Despite declining opioid prescribing in the last decade, low-value opioid prescribing for acute pain (LVOP) (inconsistent with professional guidelines) has persisted. It is unclear how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted LVOP, particularly among vulnerable communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A total of 111 mental health calls resulted in unmet needs since March 2020, with health zone 1 (a rural portion of the province) having the highest proportion of mental health calls with no referral. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

13 Here is some evidence: From 2004-2020, 8,718 GLP-1 analogs-associated tumors were reported to the FDA. Der Beitrag Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative. 10 , 9 In patients with uncontrolled or potentially unstable diabetic retinopathy, treatment with semaglutide 2.4

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Using the online website for the nation’s largest grocer, Walmart.com, we performed quota sampling in 122 categories of foods and beverages most commonly consumed by Americans according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2017-2020 What We Eat in America (WWEIA) report.

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

Many of us have seen stories in the news about American families on diagnostic odysseys for their children with rare diseases. More and more, doctors, researchers, and families are turning to technologies like AI and even Google to help them decode health symptoms and get on the road to solutions and treatments. None of them.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. Since 2020, the starting ages for breast, lung, and colorectal cancer screening were lowered to 40, 50, and 45 years, respectively.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. As a family doctor who has worked for a large hospital system in the past, I fully agree with this contention.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Réseau de recherche en soins primaires de l’ Université de Montréal (RRSPUM) is the Primary Care (PC) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DFMEM) of our University (Quebec, Canada). RRSPUM includes 19 Academic Family Medicine clinics.

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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. Results: Prior to March 2020, <1% of primary care visits were via telehealth.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Students who reported their possible source of infection most often cited a family member (49.6%) or classmate (34.6%). Conclusion: Since its emergence in 2020, SARS-CoV-2 was detected year-round and with a higher median age than other pathogens.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

West Coast wildfires of 2020 affected the spread of airborne diseases. Beatriz Arregui-García, from Instituto de Fisica Interdisciplinary Sistemas Complejos in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, and colleagues examined how wildfire-induced changes in human behavior during the U.S. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews and focus groups with primary care staff (n = 16) and patients (n = 37) from primary care practices in northwest England and London (n = 14) using the Patchs eVisits system (Patchs Health Limited; www.patchs.ai ) from May 2020 to September 2021.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

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. Watchful waiting refers to clinical observation only.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 20, 2025

Myriad Genetics has been conducting the GeneSight Mental Health Monitor surveys since 2020 to learn about American attitudes towards mental health and related issues. Roberts was struggling with her mental health after a string of painful life events, including her mother’s passing and other family members’ chronic health issues. “My

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

2019/pre-pandemic and 2020/pandemic cohorts included 167,095 vs. 173,240 PLWD living in the community and 93,374 vs. 92,434 PLWD residing in nursing homes (NHs), respectively. Analysis: We compared 2020 to 2019 in 3 periods (1st wave; interim period; 2nd wave) and conducted meta-analyses on the provincial estimates.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The study is divided into three periods: pre-COVID (Oct 2019 to Mar 2020), COVID (Apr 2020 to May 2023), and postCOVID (Jun 2023 to Dec 2023). Objective: To assess the epidemiology and mortality risk among patients discharged from AMCs General Medicine Service Lines in the US from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Setting: AMCs within the US.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The study is divided into three periods: pre-COVID (Oct 2019 to Mar 2020), COVID (Apr 2020 to May 2023), and post-COVID (Jun 2023 to Dec 2023). Objective: To assess the epidemiology and mortality risk among patients discharged from AMCs in the US from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. Mixed models were used for analysis.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. All healthcare professionals will have patients who are directly or indirectly impacted by the carceral system.

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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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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

This story goes back to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which prohibits manufacturers from selling any “new tobacco product” without authorization from FDA. FDA complied with that order, later extended the deadline because of COVID, and eventually settled on a PMTA deadline of September 9, 2020.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: A written survey in 2020 followed by iterative 90 minute virtual group conversations from 2021-2023 recalling and distilling experiences and conclusions, reaching consensus opinions.

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Aspiring Minority Doctor

MARCH 26, 2021

December 2020 The official plastic surgery release date was December 4, 2020 and to my delight, I received an interview! It is with great happiness and exhilaration that I announce I finally matched! Even better, I matched into an INTEGRATED PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY RESIDENCY PROGRAM in MIAMI!!!!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To measure the difference in changes in quality between the best- and worst-performing deciles, an OLS linear regression model was applied, incorporating a one-degree spline with a knot at quarter 2 of 2020 to model trends before and during the pandemic. Even as QMs improve, it is still important to monitor equity in performance across NHs.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

A 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review introduced the term sludge to describe “these types of situations in which the design of a specific process consistently impedes individuals from completing their intended action.”

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is a cosponsoring board for geriatric medicine, which means physicians certified by ABFM who have completed accredited training can also qualify for the Geriatric Medicine Certification Exam administered by ABIM and obtain ABFM Board Certification in Geriatric Medicine.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 15, 2025

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. But over the past 5 years, I have watched with increasing dismay as family physicians and urologists (mis)interpreted the U.S.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

During this episode, we hear from Dr. Nav Persaud, a staff physician in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital in Unity Health Toronto, and Dr. Alika Lafontaine, the current President of the Canadian Medical Association.

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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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33 Charts

OCTOBER 2, 2021

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. Crucial that we fix this.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

So my background clinically is working with cancer patients and families and those who underwent bone marrow transplant, and a lot of times for their treatment regimen, it includes steroids. We debate the merits of use of CGM in the nursing home and other late life settings (Eric and I argue against CGM and lose). Listen in to learn more!

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FDA Law Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

These revisions appear to be responsive to a November 16, 2020 Special Fraud Alert issued by the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee). not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee).

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome a wonderful group to talk about deprescribing. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast. Elizabeth: Nice to be here. One in JAMA Network.

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