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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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: New ACGME guidelines in Family Medicine Residency training newly encourage training in point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). Prior studies focus on the perceived needs of learners rather than needs of the patients or communities in which these residents practice. Intervention/Instrument: The survey was developed de novo.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In October 2023, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NAPCRG) and the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) announced their strategic plan for family medicine research. One emphasis of the plan is to develop and normalize the team science approach in family medicine research.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recognizes the critical role of family medicine (FM) research in primary care and healthcare systems. Engaging researchers and leveraging evidence are essential for addressing the challenges faced by FM and family physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Burnout among family medicine residents is widespread, impacting the workforce. As part of the BRIDGE program, the AAFP hosted Project ECHO® (ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) sessions, focusing on resident wellbeing and burnout prevention.

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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.

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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.

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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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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. Boswell, J. Hepner, K. Rothrock, N. Childs, A. Psychotherapy, 60(1), 1.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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).

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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.

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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).

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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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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.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 6, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) Health Equity Committee has identified a need for an Interpreter Access Task Force to help identify gaps and barriers to interpreter access across the state. Resolution 2023-04 : Coverage for live, in-person interpreter services under Minnesota Medical Assistance.

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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.

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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.

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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%

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

They explore the impact of racism, trauma, and inequities in care, while emphasizing the need for culturally grounded, community-based prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The authors urged readers to make the elimination of nuclear weapons an urgent public health priority, reiterating a 2023 editorial on similar themes : Any use of nuclear weapons would be catastrophic for humanity.

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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. As physicians, we put our all into taking care of other people and making sure people in our community stay healthy.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Don Berwick's dire warning about the existential threat of greed on the failing American health care system seems to be coming true, to the extent that the brazen assassination of an insurance company executive in midtown Manhattan elicited far more outrage about delayed or denied care than sympathy for his family's loss.

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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.,

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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.

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CDOCS

JULY 1, 2024

& & </p> <p>Survey data from the 2023 ADA Council on Communications Trend Report found that more than 40% of dentists felt defeated, wanted to quit dentistry, or did not want to go to work in the six months leading up to the survey, with these feelings being more common in dentists 44 years and younger.&

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

She was awarded the Society of Biological Psychiatry Humanitarian Award and the Community Outreach Award by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Clinically, he cares for youth and families through the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the new Division of Addiction Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 3, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples Show Notes by Sudarshan (“Sud”) Krishnamurthy April 4, 2023 Summary: This episode highlights the checkered past of medicine and the advancements in the field that have occurred at the expense of the humanity of Indigenous peoples.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. But 2023 was a really bad year for me between the infection and everything.

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