Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 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 Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Data on the impacts of COVID-19 on preventative primary care are still emerging. 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Relationship Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE We assessed the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a digital cognitive assessment (DCA) for Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) screening into primary care. We also assessed the prevalence of positive screens and measured diagnostic and care outcomes after a positive DCA result.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Patient-Centered Chronic Disease 130

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Finance Insurance Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

to complete an analysis of qualitative data collected from primary care clinician and staff perspectives on the use of anti-obesity medications. Setting or Data Set: Baseline and follow-up semi-structured interviews conducted with clinicians and staff between February 2021 and August 2023 (N=220).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Electronics Provider Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). 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. A score ≥2 constitutes a positive screen for possible substance misuse.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit 130

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Clinical Practice Diagnosis 52

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The industry reached a three-decade high in 2023, adding more than 650,000 jobs. The demand for healthcare professionals spans a wide range of specialties, including primary care physicians, registered nurses, mental health counselors, and much more. Nurses can practice in different specialties as well.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Healthcare Professional Patient-Centered Primary Care Physician 52

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.

Primary Care Doctor 52

Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Board-Certified Physicals 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Adam Gaffney , a critical care doctor and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, told NBC News. 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.

Insurance 52

Insurance Patient-Centered Electronics Physicals 52

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).

Medical 52

Medical IT Family Practice Internal Medicine 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. Objective: To understand perspectives and needs of primary care clinical staff in addressing the OUD epidemic.

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

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.

Chronic Disease Management 130

Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Illness Management 130

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. 1.93]), be female (2.65 [2.63-2.67]), 1.93]), be female (2.65 [2.63-2.67]),

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Utilities Vaccination 130

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.

Hospital 52

Hospital Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “It’s also often the family member or the person helping to manage them.” Their growth has bolstered primary care, and, like doctors, they can specialize in particular branches of medicine.

Nurse Practitioner 52

Nurse Practitioner Families Family Primary Care 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Demonstrate the feasibility of collecting data from prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) for population health reporting, 2) analyze trends in PDMP and electronic health record patient data relative to CDC guidelines and 3) identify use of patient-centered measures for pain management in primary care.

Patients 130

Patients Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

adults participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2021 to 2023). “The simple and universally accessible waist-to-height measurement is useful in clinical and public health practice for liver disease screening, prevention, diagnosis and management globally.” Agbaje, M.D., All rights reserved.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Screening Management Clinic 52

Family Physicians of Greeley

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Get a regular annual physical with your PCP (Primary Care Physician), get moderate physical activity at least 4-5 days per week (30 minutes), eat a healthy diet, and know your risk factors. If you have diabetes or prediabetes and want to learn more about how you can better manage your health, please talk with your doctor.

Diabetes 40

Diabetes Diagnose Primary Care Physician Physicals 40

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. and hear about their programs.

Medical Student 40

Medical Student DO Family Medicine Patient-Centered 40

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. We have world class primary care, cancer care, palliative care.

Healthcare 102

Healthcare IT Community Illness 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 17, 2023

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. We invited three geriatricians and memory care doctors, Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish, to talk about this question and many others swirling around on how to safely prescribe these drugs and manage patients on them (like what to do about anticoagulation).

Patient-Centered 98

Patient-Centered IT Clinic Patients 98

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors. Setting or Dataset: Participant data were selected from the Extramural LUMC Academic Network(ELAN) primary care database between 2007 and 2023.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Primary Care Individual Management 130

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

In the United States in 2023, the truth of the matter is you don’t need very many individual risk factors to become homeless. A huge portion of that difference in wealth you can trace back to the fact that their families were not able to get into the housing market. ” That is a myth. But it’s not a drug.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124

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. growth in the U.S.

DO 52

DO Family Medicine Family Families 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We had, since the late seventies, a home-based primary care program. And we would provide ongoing longitudinal care to them in the home, much like the Mount Sinai Visiting Doctors programs, and other programs like that. We relied on our clinical experience as geriatricians, that home-based primary care experience.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. We sometimes take care of patients who are on home ventilators, so coming in for an office visit is not practically feasible. They couldn’t get a case manager to refer them in palliative care.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73