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

Study aesign and analysis: Multilevel linear probability models used to test the association between primary care utilization and geographic accessibility of primary care providers (PCP) after controlling for demographic characteristics, medical conditions, rurality, and neighborhood-level racial and economic segregation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Study: Primary care clinicians including MD/DO and advanced practice providers (i.e., In Phase 1 (gradual implementation), 404 xOrders were released between 11/39/2020 and 9/25/2021. nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Data was collected in two Canadian provinces (QC and BC) from 2020 to 2022. Study Design and Analysis This study is a secondary analysis using data from a prospective, open-label, multicenter randomized trial.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

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.) I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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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

Research has shown that in some locations, primary care services were able to resume and recover to pre-pandemic visit rates for patients < 6 years old shortly after the initial lockdown in March/April 2020. Setting: Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

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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

Objective: To determine whether the payer mix (Medicaid versus private commercial insurance) and other clinic characteristics resulted in differential telehealth service initiation and trajectories among outpatient clinics in 2020. Dataset: Insurance claims submitted to APCD from April through December, 2020.

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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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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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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

Context: In March 2020, the Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre (VTAC) was launched as a large-scale, innovative, hybrid healthcare program. VTAC aims to provide timely and equitable access to care in a predominantly rural region facing deep-rooted healthcare challenges.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Six virtual patient focus groups with a total of 30 patients and nine telephone physician interviews conducted in 2020. Results: Patients expected physicians to provide a rationale for ordering imaging or not, as they often considered imaging to be an indicator of high-quality care and desired imaging to relieve anxiety.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: The Children’s Museum of Southern Minnesota was chosen as there was an existing partnership with Mayo Clinic for community education by healthcare providers. Population Studied: Starting in 2020, 15 residents annually from the Mankato Family Medicine Residency Program were included.

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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). Comparing these trends with data from other countries could provide a broader understanding of the pandemic’s impacts on healthcare systems regionally. Setting: AMCs within the US.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Providing critical care for people living with dementia (PLWD) during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak was raised as a global concern. Step 1: Compared rates of ICU admissions in three 2020 periods (1st wave; interim period; 2nd wave) to the corresponding 2019 periods. Analysis: We used a 2-step meta-analytical approach.

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OCFM

OCTOBER 23, 2020

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

A research team from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics of Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland) has analyzed vaccination schedules published by 29 countries at the turn of 2020 and 2021, including members of the EU, UK, and Israel, with respect to the order in which they provided vaccination for different groups of citizens.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Examining the intentions of FM learners provides insight into the future practice behaviors of FPs. Exiting cohorts of FM residents from 2016 to 2020 (average cohort n=862, average response rate=60%) and corresponding early career FPs at three years post-residency, from 2019 to 2023 (average n=318, average response rate=20%).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. In Alberta specifically, a significant concern was prioritizing provincial COVID-19 infection control over patient management.

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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. You can return your unit using a free shipping label provided by the company. At least 17 people have reported getting sick from the exposure, with symptoms such as coughing, sore throats and respiratory infections.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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 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: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Population Studied: 5,006 US family medicine residency graduates from 2017 to 2020 with 58% females, 39% aged 35 or older, and 85% practicing in urban areas.

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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. Conclusions: Within MedStar, both GC and CT pose a large burden of disease, particularly within the hospital / ED setting, and treatment was provided in the vast majority of cases. In the 6 months following guideline changes, 92.2%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: Eligible participants with ARIs provided demographic, epidemiologic, and symptom data, along with a nasal swab or oropharyngeal specimen. 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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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

billion people were living with vision loss in 2020, and it is forecasted to reach 1.7 Researchers say that the implant cannot provide any highly detailed vision – but it can help patients detect distinct patterns such as door frames and shapes. Globally 1.1 billion without serious interventions and investments by 2050.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

This Revised Draft Guidance provides considerations for manufacturers, packers or distributors (dubbed “firms”) of prescription biological reference products, biosimilar products, and interchangeable biosimilar products presenting data and information about such products in promotional materials in a truthful and non-misleading way.

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OCFM

DECEMBER 7, 2020

White.well deserved December 07, 2020 / Jack Forbush, DO Cherryville’s White is N.C.’s Notice of Privacy Policy

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

There are a growing number of Child Psychiatric Access Programs, including one in Massachusetts, which provide quick access to psychiatric consultation and facilitates referrals for accessing ongoing behavioral health care. Diversifying your mental health outreach goes hand in hand with diversifying your providers. Grupp-Phelan, J.,

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

As previous research has found, providing factual information helps tremendously in addressing misconceptions and myths about infectious diseases, the latter of which can seriously undermine implementation of preventive measures. Int J Soc Psychiatry 2020 (May 21; published online). Front Commun ́2020 (June 12; published online).

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 15, 2024

If you made it through the first 2 pages of the opinion, this Court’s answer is clear: FDA flagrantly violated the APA in denying those flavored e-cigarette applications due to the Agency’s utter failure to provide comprehensible instructions and consistent policies. FDA also directed manufacturers to produce detailed marketing plans.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 14, 2024

in 2020, with higher percentages of patients with more favorable pathology or lower PSA levels choosing one of these strategies. A 2019 AFP editorial provided more guidance for estimating and having conversations about life expectancy with older patients. ** This post first appeared on the AFP Community Blog. and 6.1%, respectively).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

September 8, 2020. Published online May 11, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published online July 29, 2020. Published July 2, 2020. Institute for Healing & Justice in Medicine ; 2020. link] December 17, 2020. Examining and Rethinking Race Portrayal in Preclinical Medical Education.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2024

This lawsuit has FDA and the homeopathic health community looking at the same provisions of the 2020 CARES Act from vastly different perspectives. In 2020, the CARES Act reformed and modernized the OTC drug review process. As this Jamesian controversy plays out in the Courts, we’ll provide updates in future posts.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. As impressive as these large numbers may be, the question that is less often asked is “How much of that big data is actually helping us do better?”

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FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

As dictated by the process provided for in the 2020 CARES Act, FDA announced issuance of the proposed order in a Federal Register notice and published the proposed order itself on FDA’s website. Notably, the proposed order provides that the order, if finalized, will become effective one year after the final rule is published.

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