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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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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Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

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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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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).

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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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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

Even if one disagrees with the content, ESC guidelines are influential… The older 2020 ESC Leitlinie on atrial fibrillation has been cited over 10,000 times and read more than 2 million times. erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative. Both showed no significant benefit. Here are some insights.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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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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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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OCFM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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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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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Finally, neither patients nor primary care clinicians could easily access the results of colonoscopies or stool-based tests. They quantified time, paperwork, communication, technology (number of mouse clicks to order a CRC screening test), other administrative tasks, and low-value CRC screenings.

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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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Benton) 13:08 Youth Suicide Crisis Discussion, “Ringing the Alarm” 20:10 Shift in Issue Framing in the Literature 24:31 The Network Begins with Primary Care 28:42 Diversifying your Outreach 30:54 Cultural Humility Speaker Biographies Dr. Tami Benton, MD , is the Frederick Allen Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. Vinod Rao, M.D.,

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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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Infants were born between 2005 and 2020. Nigra, Sc.M., from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, and colleagues examined the association between prenatal public water arsenic exposure below the federal regulatory standard of 10 μg/L and birth outcomes. The cohort comprised 13,998 birthing parents.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The air conditioners were sold between March 2020 and May 2025 at major retailers like Best Buy, Costco and Home Depot. At least 17 people have reported getting sick from the exposure, with symptoms such as coughing, sore throats and respiratory infections. They cost between $280 and $500.

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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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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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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

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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

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