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Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In May 2023, Mayo Clinic implemented a revised screening tool to assess social determinants of health (SDOH) for its patients. Setting or Dataset: Secondary data on social needs screening and referral generated through Epic. Setting or Dataset: Secondary data on social needs screening and referral generated through Epic.

Primary Care

Primary Care Referral Routine Screenings Patients

Evaluation of Universal Food Insecurity Screening in the Primary Care Setting [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends universal screening; however studies have found inconsistencies in screening of FI, documentation of FI, and referral to appropriate resources. Comparison of FI for paired patients in 2022 and 2023. Enrollment and referrals in food assistance programs.

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Primary Care Screening Referral Utilities

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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Comparatively, physicians in general practice were more likely to see patients for mental health, chronic disease, and preventive care.

Clinic

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care

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

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. Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives. Contact hours included a mix of in-person visits and phone calls.

Primary Care

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered

Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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. A patient-reported experience survey on primary care. Study Design and Analysis. Multi-level logistic regression models were fit. Instrument.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Bridging the 17‑Year Research–Practice Gap Implementation scientists estimate that it takes about seventeen years for new evidence to become routine care (Rubin, 2023). Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. For AI in Primary Care, Start With the Problem. References Menchaca, J.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional

Impact of the COVID-19 Era on Preventative Primary Care for Children 0-5 years old: A Scoping Review [Child and adolescent health]

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

Primary Care Referral Relationship Management

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). Study period for urban locations: Oct 2–Dec 29, 2023; for the rural location: Nov 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024. For patients screened positive, chart reviews were conducted and the number of referrals to SUD Clinic was tracked.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit

Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): This research explores patient navigation between primary care and specialty care to facilitate treatment completion in a health care system. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services.

Behavioral Health Services

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare

Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Benton) 13:08 Youth Suicide Crisis Discussion, “Ringing the Alarm” 20:10 Shift in Issue Framing in the Literature 24:31 The Network Begins with Primary Care 28:42 Diversifying your Outreach 30:54 Cultural Humility Speaker Biographies Dr. Tami Benton, MD , is the Frederick Allen Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mental Health

Mental Health Community Patient-Centered Hospital

Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Today we learn more about coaching from 3 coaches: Greg Pawlson, coach and former president of the American Geriatrics Society, Vicky Tang, geriatrician-researcher at UCSF and coach , and Beth Griffiths, primary care internist at UCSF and coach. Eric: … in geriatrics as a primary care doctor? AlexSmithMD 1.

Board-Certified

Board-Certified IT Primary Care Referral

Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural. The proportions of people with any diabetes or anti-hypertensive drug were similar across settings, but with some variation in patterns for insulin and non-insulin diabetes drugs.

Chronic Disease Management

Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Illness Management

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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Referral Family Medicine DO Primary Care

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

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. And that’s about half of our referrals.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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. And how are you going to know that when you’re just getting random referrals from teaching hospitals, for example? Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data. What state are they in?

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified

Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Evaluation of Universal Food Insecurity Screening in the Primary Care Setting [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Trending Sources

Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

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

Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Impact of the COVID-19 Era on Preventative Primary Care for Children 0-5 years old: A Scoping Review [Child and adolescent health]

Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

Should you have a coach? Greg Pawlson, Beth Griffiths, & Vicky Tang

Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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