2023 and Family Doctor - Primary Care Digest

The role of primary care teams in identifying modifiable risk factors for food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

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. The resulting tool will be pilot tested in FHT clinical settings and eventually validated in a randomized clinical trial.

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Authorship Inequity in Global Health Research Conducted in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Published in High-Income Country Family Medicine Journals [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS We conducted a bibliometric analysis of World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA) journals based in high-income countries for articles describing research conducted in low-income countries, lower-middle-income countries, and upper-middle-income countries from 2018 to 2023.

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Primary care for all Americans

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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Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

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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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

Clinical practice guidelines on the management of episodic migraine headache, including the 2023 US Veterans Affairs/Department of Defense guideline , preferentially recommend triptans for most patients.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

A 2020 meta-analysis of eight randomized controlled trials (summarized in a POEM in American Family Physician ) concluded that low-dose CT screening prevents one lung cancer death for every 250 people screened.

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My favorite public health and health care books of 2024

Common Sense Family Doctor

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

For more great reads, feel free to browse my lists from 2023 , 2022 , 2021 , and 2015-2020. Five moving memoirs and five more outstanding nonfiction titles comprise this year's 10th annual list of my favorite health books, listed alphabetically by title below. Hope this list helps with your holiday shopping! ** 1.

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Practices developed novel workflows to support TCM and to ensure that it is financially sustainable, as reviewed in a 2023 article in FPM.

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Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

On Sensible Medicine, Dr. Edward Livingston pointed out that the manufacturer, AbbVie, spent $580 million on DTCA for this drug in 2023, or $290 for each of the 2 million potential patients in the United States. The annual price of risankizumab is $288,000, so this is still a huge bargain for the company given the potential returns.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 11, 2025

Most family physicians have at some point heard the old saw "jack of all trades, master of none," which I have come to view as less insulting than is usually intended. in 2023-24. Another Health Affairs study documented that the percentages of residency programs with rural and FQHC training sites rose from 6.2%

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For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

While I'm grateful for subspecialists who alleviate pain, rescue patients who are unable to breathe on their own, manage complicated fractures, and replace worn-out hips and knees, the gap between the number of family doctors we need and the number we have keeps getting wider. growth in the U.S.

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Food for thought on food as medicine

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 27, 2025

A Research Letter in JAMA documented increases in food insecurity and days with poor physical health after the end of a temporary pandemic increase to SNAP benefits in March 2023. An Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality evidence synthesis that I previously discussed showed that WIC improves important maternal and child health outcomes.

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Primary Care Digest

The role of primary care teams in identifying modifiable risk factors for food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Authorship Inequity in Global Health Research Conducted in Low- and Middle-Income Countries and Published in High-Income Country Family Medicine Journals [Original Research]

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Primary care for all Americans

Health professionals speak out against the new nuclear arms race

Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

My favorite public health and health care books of 2024

Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Direct-to-consumer advertising distorts prescription drugs’ benefits and costs

Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

For family medicine workforce, HHS reorganization plan receives a failing grade

Food for thought on food as medicine

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