Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

As healthcare professionals we can: ask during history taking what the patient has already searched or generated with AI, clarify when an AI answer is helpful and when a live conversation is safer, and show patients how to write better prompts so they receive accurate, actionable advice. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

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.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician DO Family Medicine Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To synthesize literature on pain-related medication in adults with ID and examine how it relates to MLTCs and polypharmacy and explore the views of adults with ID, caregivers and healthcare providers on pain medication use. Study Design and Analysis: Systematic review (PROSPERO CRD42023415051). Narrative synthesis of findings.

Management 130

Management Medical Healthcare Professional Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Living with obesity is a complex, multifactorial health issue, and the healthcare system contributes only 20% of the factors affecting the health of a person living with obesity (PLO). An environmental scan was conducted between September 2023 and January 2024 using a literature review and semi-structured interviews.

Community 130

Community Healthcare Professional Healthcare Management 130

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline (2023): “It is not yet established that patients at high risk of developing AF by a validated risk score benefit from screening.” Although not a guideline, still relevant: The German Arznei-Telegramm concluded in 2021, 2023, and 2024 that atrial fibrillation screening is not recommended in asymptomatic individuals.

Screening 130

Screening Family Medicine DO Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This study aims to examine individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with patients’ experience of access to their multidisciplinary primary healthcare clinic. Study Design and Analysis. This cross-sectional study builds on survey data collected in multidisciplinary PHC clinics. Outcomes measures.

Nurse Practitioner 130

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To document the lived experience of patients with LC pain, including how they access and receive healthcare, to improve services for LC pain evaluation and treatment. However, pain associated with LC has not been well understood and there are no current standardized treatments.

Patients 130

Patients Insurance IT Mental Health 130

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The healthcare jobs in CT market is growing rapidly; the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects that healthcare jobs will grow nearly 13% from 2021 to 2031, or roughly 2 million new healthcare jobs over that decade. The industry reached a three-decade high in 2023, adding more than 650,000 jobs.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Primary Care Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

All fee-for-service physicians who billed at least 1 OHIP claim from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 and from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 under their clinic group codes were included. There was a higher rate of referrals to dermatology, surgery, and family practice from boutique clinics.

Clinic 130

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. By understanding how PCPs engage with eConsult platforms, healthcare systems can pinpoint areas of opportunities for engagement and training. Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Fifty healthcare providers from 10 different practices resulted in 1,324 returned surveys (50 from PCPs; 1,274 from PWLE) within 4-months (July to October 2023). Outcome Measures: Patient-Reported Experience Measures (PREMS) and Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS).

Nurse Practitioner 130

Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Relationship PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. Results: Thirteen reviews published in English from 2010 to 2023 were included.

Finance 130

Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

Patients 130

Patients Primary Care Appointment Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: News and scholarly reports have highlighted that primary care professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, and administrators, are leaving comprehensive family medicine practice because of COVID-19 circumstances that may have fostered moral distress.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Healthcare Professional DO Family Medicine 130

Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise.

Private Practice 52

Private Practice Healthcare Internal Medicine DO 52

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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DO Family Medicine Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Medical Patients Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Between April 2022 and July 2023, 116 persons navigated through the program, including 78 persons without a prior specialist appointment (New Patients), 15 persons previously engaged with a specialist but not completed treatment.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

Utilities 130

Utilities Healthcare Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To understand if increasing distances from patients to their FP are associated with changes in healthcare utilization and quality of care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023. Analysis: Drive times and drive distances were derived using ArcGIS.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Primary Care Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023. The study is divided into three periods: pre-COVID (Oct 2019 to Mar 2020), COVID (Apr 2020 to May 2023), and post-COVID (Jun 2023 to Dec 2023). Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. Mixed models were used for analysis.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Patients Medical Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Language-concordant healthcare is an important social determinant of health, associated with better patient outcomes and lower mortality in some settings. Population Studied: Population of Ontario, Canada Intervention/Instrument: R Language for Statistical Computing (R Core Team 2023) and RStudio (Posit team 2023).

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Physician Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite the recognized significance of the integration of spiritual care into healthcare, spiritual training is often an elective rather than a core component of medical education and often lacks robust measures of skill and aptitude.

Education 130

Education Medical Medical Student Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. Included articles were published in English-language peer reviewed journals from 1978 until 2023. 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: Health system innovations aimed at improving healthcare access are complex interventions that can have unintended consequences; hence the need for near real-time evaluation approaches which capture evolving contexts and impacts. Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023.

Referral 130

Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities 130

Plum Health

MAY 11, 2023

Dr. 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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DO Family Medicine Community Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Questions were structured to capture the delivery and access dimensions outlined in the Levesque conceptual framework for healthcare access. Instrument: An online survey was distributed, and subsequent semi-structured telephone or video interviews were conducted between May and December 2023. Setting: Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Finance Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Despite the growing interest in DTs, the healthcare sector lacks unified frameworks that can explain the development, evaluation, and implementation of DTs in clinical decision-making. Dataset: We systematically searched PubMed, Embase (Ovid), and IEEE Xplore on August 4, 2023.

Clinic 130

Clinic Electronics Screening Physicals 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

METHOD We used results from the Longitudinal Occupational Health survey in Healthcare Sweden with data collected in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The sample of primary care physicians who answered at all 3 years and were aged 68 or less was 433. Performance-based reimbursement was measured using a single item.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Individual Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Date ranges were January 1, 1990 to April 16, 2023. Healthcare providers can play an important role in providing sexual health knowledge to both caregivers and adolescents and engaging in non-judgmental sexual health conversations. Articles were included if they met all specified criteria.

Education 130

Education Healthcare Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Date ranges were January 1, 1990 to April 16, 2023, and articles were included if they met all specified criteria. Healthcare providers have the opportunity to facilitate AAPI parent-adolescent sexual communication and engage in culturally-sensitive sexual health discussions

Education 130

Education Family Families Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. Dataset: We used data routinely collected through the CPSMP between December 2017 and May 2023. One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care.

Management 130

Management Utilities Referral Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective Describe the population of patients referred to a palliative care clinic and observe their healthcare utilization patterns. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023.

Patients 130

Patients Diagnosis Patient-Centered Utilities 130

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: To improve non-cancer chronic pain and opioid management among older adults, the Oklahoma (OK) Primary Healthcare Improvement Cooperative implemented a multi-faceted, person-centered, scalable primary care intervention in the Reducing Inappropriate Opioid Use in Seniors in Oklahoma (RISE-OK) Study.

Management 130

Management Primary Care Electronics Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pharmacists represent the 3rd largest healthcare profession in Canada, after nurses and physicians, with 46,699 licensed to practice in 2022. In Ontario, Canada, pharmacists were given authority to deliver service for 19 MAs as of October 1, 2023. Models were adjusted for key recipient demographics and heatlcare utilization.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Utilities Vaccination 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 117,648 non-pregnant patients ages 50-64 years living in eligibility expansion states (OR/CA) or states that did not expand eligibility (AK, CT, IN, MN, MT, NC, NJ, OH, WA) with a visit 20182019 (pre) and 2021-2023 (post). Outcome measures: Health insurance at each visit: uninsured, Medicaid-, or privately-paid visits.

Community 130

Community Insurance Healthcare Patient-Centered 130