Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Substance use disorders (SUD) significantly impact the physical, social, and mental health of individuals, their families, and the wider community. The existing literature does not adequately address substance use within the context of family and community resilience.

Community 130

Community Family Families Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In May 2023, Mayo Clinic implemented a revised screening tool to assess social determinants of health (SDOH) for its patients. Outcome Measures: social risk factors, whether patients wanted assistance with their risk factors, and measures related to connection to community resources.

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Primary Care Referral Routine Screenings Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Our findings have been used to refine a food insecurity screening and assessment tool that we co-designed, pilot tested, and evaluated in partnership with community paramedics embedded in a FHT in 2023-24. Most felt that their interactions with dietitians had been unhelpful.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Family Doctor Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Results: Thirteen reviews published in English from 2010 to 2023 were included.

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Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

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Referral Mental Health Finance Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to a call initiated by CIHR in 2023, inviting patient, public, and community participation, the Patient Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) responded with a Report on March 25, 2024.

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Patients Community Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based residency programs (CBRPs), which are defined as Teaching Health Centers (THCs) and programs with Rural Training Track (RTTs), produce physicians that are more likely to practice in rural and other underserved areas. Further, most family medicine residents remain within 50 miles of their residency graduate location.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Community Finance Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023. of clinicians received any support by VMAP between 2016-2023.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Internal Medicine DO Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Search strategy developed for six medical databases (2000-March 2023), key terms of ID, pain, analgesia, medication. Setting or Dataset: All health/community settings. Study Design and Analysis: Systematic review (PROSPERO CRD42023415051). Narrative synthesis of findings. Study designs: observational, qualitative, mixed methods.

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Management Medical Healthcare Professional Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is paramount to understand the barriers faced by the AI/AN community to better serve their medical needs. The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. Population Studied: AI/AN patients residing in the USA.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Utilities Community Preventive Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that equally engages researchers and community stakeholders throughout the research process. 30, 2023, were considered. Study Design and Analysis: This scoping review follows the Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework.

Community 130

Community Individual Relationship Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project. At the end of the pilot period health care team members were surveyed to determine the success of the implementation efforts.

Illness 130

Illness Electronics Primary Care Nurse Practitioner 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Lehigh Valley Practice and Community Based Research Network(LV-PCBRN) conducts weekly meetings to engage members in discussion about active and future research, and quality improvement projects conducted by colleagues, residents, and medical students.

Medical Student 130

Medical Student Utilities Community Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: A midwestern primary care practice implemented a social needs screening and referral program centered on a Health Equity Coordinator (HEC), a new role created to manage the pathway from screening to connection to community resources.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

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Family Physician Primary Care Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health record data from 541 community-based clinics across 17 states in the OCHIN network from 01/01/2019-5/31/2023. In the months following the PHE declaration >50% were telehealth, leveling to 25% at the end of the study period (March 2022-May 2023).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Telehealth Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to the growing overdose epidemic, communities in US and Canada have started using vending machines (VMs) as a low-barrier method to provide harm reduction (HR) items to the community. These VMs are becoming popular and typically dispense naloxone, drug testing strips, and other items for co-occurring conditions.

Community 130

Community Utilities Provider Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development. Outcomes Measured: Prevalence and distribution of community-based family physicians in Ontario (all, and French-speaking).

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Physician Family 130

Plum Health

JUNE 29, 2023

Detroit Air Quality Update June 29th 2023 Unfortunately, today the air quality is 157 - 184, which is unhealthy. Here are some of the key findings: A wildfire event can cause feelings of confusion, anger, fear, and loss, all of which can have long-term impacts on the people and communities that experience them.

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Asthma Illness Community Family Medicine 52

Plum Health

MAY 11, 2023

Thomas graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2013 - thereafter, he completed his residence at Oakwood/Beaumont Family Medicine Residency Program, and then started Plum Health DPC in November 2016. Time flies when you’re practicing medicine - the days are long but the years are short.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: School-based outbreaks often precede increased incidence of acute respiratory infections in the greater community. Setting: Oregon School District, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA, between January 2015 and June 2023, and before and after emergence of SARS-CoV-2. Outcome Measures: Pathogen identification.

Community 130

Community Family Families Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. Guided by the Andersen model of health care utilization, we identified predisposing, enabling, need, and structural community characteristics from public data sources. Analyses were performed from 2023 to 2024. RESULTS In Virginia, 56.0%

Primary Care 130

Primary Care PCP PCP Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cervical cancer burden is high in the Chinese and Latinx communities. Partnerships between Comprehensive Cancer Centers and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in these communities is critical to build capacity among primary care providers (PCPs) and staff (e.g.,

Education 130

Education Screening Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We employed Google Search ads to gather dermatology images from the public, with informed consent, between March and November 2023. The SCIN dataset can significantly enhance dermatological research, education, and AI tool accuracy, particularly in underrepresented communities.

Education 130

Education Community Individual Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset(s): Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings, 2023 (Trend Data). Conclusions: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report on primary care outlines steps for ensuring access to high-quality primary care including having an adequate supply of primary care physicians in every community.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It includes modifications to the EpicTM electronic medical record (EMR) for guidance on treatment alternatives, support for provider-patient communication and goal setting, billing and coding support, and a new visit type called a Weight Prioritized Visit (WPV). Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative study.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Electronics Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023. We employed diverse strategies to solicit respondent participation in clinics, provider networks, community and, social media. Study Design and Analysis: We used a mixed-method complexity-informed methodology.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Referral Provider Utilities 130

Plum Health

AUGUST 20, 2023

Paul Thomas was invited to give a “Welcome to Detroit” lecture for the Wayne State University School of Medicine Class of 2027. These medical students will be immersed in the Detroit community over the next 4 years, and upon graduation, many of them will continue to serve the Detroit and Metro Detroit community.

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Medical Student Community Specialization Medical 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Opioid use disorder (OUD) continues to increase across the US, with over 105,000 OUD-related deaths reported in a 12-month period ending in October 2023. Study Design and Analysis: The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) hosted a year long, monthly Project ECHO ® educational series on OUD.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education 130

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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Primary Care Screening Family Physician DO 59

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Fetal Infant Mortality Reviews (FIMR) utilize abstracted health service records and family interviews to examine to identify root causes of infant mortality. Case review findings and recommendations are used for surveillance, quality improvement, policy development, and community education and mobilization. versus 0.8,

Family 130

Family Families Utilities Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: We started with 29,620 deliveries at IHC between May 1, 2009, and May 31, 2023. Conclusions: Rural residence was a RF for sPTB in this Iowa community. Setting: IHC, Iowa City, IA. We excluded deliveries complicated by known RFs for PTB (n=12,646). The final dataset included 16,974 deliveries among 13,339 mothers.

Insurance 130

Insurance Complication Relationship Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess whether Latino patients receiving care in community health clinics (CHCs) in Oregon and California have fewer uninsured visits post-eligibility expansion compared to patients seen in states that did not expand eligibility. Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

Community 130

Community Insurance Healthcare Patient-Centered 130

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit.

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Medical Student DO Family Medicine Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. You started off as a physician, right? LaVera: Yes.

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IT Patient-Centered Family Families 99

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. in 2023-24. It's well documented that schools that are ranked highly by U.S. and 3.6%, respectively, in 2008-09 to 14.3%

Primary Care 90

Primary Care Community Primary Care Physician DO 90

Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department.

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