Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Describe the trends in sickle cell admissions between Jan 2020 and Dec 2023 at an academic medical center (AMC) in Augusta, Georgia. Study Design: Retrospective single-site cohort study of patients diagnosed with SCD (ICD10 codes starting with D57) from Jan 2020 to December 2023. The average LOS was 3.8 ± 5.0

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While primary care (PC) settings have the potential to bridge this gap in care, many care teams lack the education and training required to effectively manage patients with OUD. Intervention: 12 monthly online OUD sessions held from April 2023 to March 2024. Setting: 20 PC practices located in various regions across the US.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population: Primary care visits by patients 55 years or older, taking 5 or more chronic medications, speaking English or Spanish during April through December 2023. vs 2.1%), self-management (21.3 Outcome Measures: Regimen changes and medication related safety issues. 33.3], including those with regimens (35.1

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

An environmental scan was conducted between September 2023 and January 2024 using a literature review and semi-structured interviews. Objective: To model the involvement of the different sectors and services mobilized in the follow-up of PLO in a region of Quebec. Study design: Qualitative study.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Data Set: Semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and October 2023 (N=220). Differentiating factors included perceptions of weight management, practical barriers, and approaches to delivering weight management.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system. Results: Between March 2022 and December 2023, the program served 512 patients with a total of 355 contact hours required to connect with patients and refer to appropriate resources as requested.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

The study was terminated early because benefits were already significantly visible by October 2023. The only more specific guideline I could find on semaglutide for weight loss is from NICE in the UK (September 2023). Der Beitrag Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Restrictions and subsequent adaptions to routine care may have affected a variety of outcomes for young children including growth and development, referral rates and wait times, and the identification and management of developmental delays. Intervention: The COVID era was defined as March 11, 2020-May 11, 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Motivation to overcome the many challenges is needed to meet the critical need for high quality, lifelong management of OUD, just as with any other chronic disease. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three PC practices that routinely serve adolescents were selected: 2 urban practices (1 Family Medicine [FM] and 1 Pediatric [PED]) and 1 rural combined FM/PED practice. Study period for urban locations: Oct 2–Dec 29, 2023; for the rural location: Nov 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

RESULTS There were 16,708 eligible encounters during the 12-month study period (June 2022-May 2023). Patients were ineligible if unable to see or hear, not English or Spanish speaking, or if they had a DCA in the past 12 months with an unimpaired or impaired result.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the epidemiology and mortality risk among patients discharged from AMCs in the US 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). Mixed models were used for analysis.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cost is a critical consideration in weight management, but cost conversations can be challenging for clinicians to initiate. Setting or Data Set: Semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and August 2023 and video recordings of a subset of WPVs.

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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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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

Many of us have seen stories in the news about American families on diagnostic odysseys for their children with rare diseases. More and more, doctors, researchers, and families are turning to technologies like AI and even Google to help them decode health symptoms and get on the road to solutions and treatments.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The industry reached a three-decade high in 2023, adding more than 650,000 jobs. Nursing: Nurses are often called the backbone of healthcare; they are the largest group of health professionals and the first point of contact for patients and their families. Nurses can practice in different specialties as well.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients. Intervention/Instrument: Semi-structured interview guide including questions about weight management.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

When Alyne Diamond fell off a horse in August 2023 and broke her back, her employer-based health plan through UnitedHealthcare covered her emergency care in Aspen, Colorado. It also covered related pain management and physical therapy after she returned home to New York City. The bills totaled more than $100,000.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023. We utilized theoretical constructs of salutogenesis – manageability, meaningfulness, and coherence; and resilience. Study Design and Analysis: We used a mixed-method complexity-informed methodology.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: From July 2022 to June 2023, we conducted semi-structured interviews with five women who smoked to understand how their motives for smoking and barriers to quitting relate to gender. It includes testimonials from women which present their struggles with quitting and how they managed to overcome them.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

of adults in the state showed significant symptoms of anxiety or depression in 2023. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor. But in the meantime, we have a few tips that may help you manage anticipatory anxiety. Reach out anytime.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

APRIL 24, 2025

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  2023 Apr;21(2):166-7. 2022;31(2):211-221.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurance companies have promised changes like these before, in 2018 and 2023, but many didn’t follow through, Dr. Mehmet Oz , head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), said. Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News.

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PEMBlog

MAY 1, 2025

Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. Counsel families and caregiversincluding pregnant household contactson the risks, exposures, and infection control considerations related to Parvovirus B19.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Understanding your insurance coverage, managing medical bills, and finding affordable healthcare options are essential for maintaining your health without breaking the bank. The post Navigating Insurance and Healthcare Costs: Tips for Patients appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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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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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

In 2023, Florida Gov. They also argue that banning the products could hurt the thousands of jobs and millions in revenue the industry brings each year, the AP added in its report. Texas is not the only state to reconsider limits on THC consumables. More information The National Institutes of Health has more on tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These disparities may be related to differences in access to recommended chronic disease management. Objective: To describe patterns of chronic disease management across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings, and explore variation by coinciding treatment for mental illness.

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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.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Minor ailments (MAs) are health conditions that can be managed with low prescribed treatment and/or self-care strategies. In Ontario, Canada, pharmacists were given authority to deliver service for 19 MAs as of October 1, 2023. million residents in Ontario. Models were adjusted for key recipient demographics and heatlcare utilization.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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