Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Utilities PCP PCP 130

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. We used multilevel mixed effects models with a progressively expanding set of variables, including demographics (model 1), comorbidities (model 2), utilization (model 3), and quality measures (model 4).

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Primary Care Utilities 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary In a JAMA 2020 systematic review of palliative care for non-cancer serious illness, Kieran Quinn found many positives, as we discussed on our podcast and in our editorial. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. Eric: VA people will know what that is. Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7)

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

And so I did all of my research training in health services research, health policy, and then was very grateful to be recruited by Dr. Christine Ritchie when she transitioned here to MGH in September of 2020. And so I knew that I wanted to do something related to palliative care because I work with people with advanced and serious illness.

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Eric 08:45 Why did you choose that as a primary outcome? Fernando, what do you think?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered Hospital IT Patients 77