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Feasibility of the Diabetes Self-Management Coaching Program for Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care. [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The rampant rise in the prevalence of diabetes presents a public health burden and a challenge to the primary care setting. Diabetes Self-management Coaching is an emergent, client-centered, solution-focused approach to enhancing self-efficacy and self-care behavior.

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Assessment of Project ECHO(R) Opioid Use Disorder Sessions for Primary Care Teams [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

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.

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Intensity of medication review activities in private and public clinics [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Setting: One private primary care clinic and two clinics of a safety net hospital system that serves inner-city populations with significant socio-economic challenges. vs 2.1%), self-management (21.3 vs 3.9%), communication (13.0

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Differential Adoption of a New Approach to Weight Management in Primary Care [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Weight loss is desired by many patients, but many primary care practices struggle to provide this care. PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight loss care to patients as part of regular health care.

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Multisector Health Equity Coordination in a Midwestern Primary Care Practice, 2022-2023 [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

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.

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Patient and Caregiver Use of Patient Portal Features [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

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.