2023, Provider and Referral - Primary Care Digest

Changes in patterns and referrals of Nova Scotians seeking mental health care through 2-1-1 Referral Service [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

Referral

Referral Mental Health Finance Community

Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023. Dual coders provided inter-coder reliability with inductive themes. Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources.

Medical

Medical Referral Screening Internal Medicine

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

Between September 2022 and June 2023, online questionnaires were sent to patients attached to a family physician and to PHC professionals and administrative staff. Results: The results indicate that some organizational and contextual-level factors were associated with the difficulty in accessing regular provider and reporting unmet needs.

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives. Objective: To assess the function and impact of a new role, a Health Equity Coordinator, on the reach of the social needs screening and referral program. Contact hours included a mix of in-person visits and phone calls.

Primary Care

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered

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

Study period for urban locations: Oct 2–Dec 29, 2023; for the rural location: Nov 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024. Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage. Intervention: The CRAFFT tool was self-administered during rooming.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit

A feasibility study of the Illuminate 360o approach for monitoring the implementation of a health system innovation [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: We explored how to design a system to provide near real-time feedback on context and impacts to inform health system innovations; and how to operationalize data collection across diverse patient populations and providers. Setting: Alberta, Canada from May 2022 to October 2023.

Referral

Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities

The utilization patterns and impact of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in Eastern Ontario, Canada [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. Dataset: We used data routinely collected through the CPSMP between December 2017 and May 2023. Anyone suffering from pain could register for the program without needing a referral or formal diagnosis from a health care practitioner.

Management

Management Utilities Referral Individual

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

There are a growing number of Child Psychiatric Access Programs, including one in Massachusetts, which provide quick access to psychiatric consultation and facilitates referrals for accessing ongoing behavioral health care. Diversifying your mental health outreach goes hand in hand with diversifying your providers.

Mental Health

Mental Health Community Patient-Centered Hospital

Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That emergency declaration is set to expire on May 11, 2023. The rule would permit a practitioner using a telemedicine encounter to prescribe controlled substances without an in-person visit under various situations involving both an audio-visual telehealth evaluation, or an in-person evaluation performed by a “referring” provider.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telecommunication Telehealth Medical

FDA Guidance Outlines a Framework for the Evaluation of Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Safety Studies in Neonatal Product Development

FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This guidance finalizes a draft guidance issued in February 2023. The protocol should also include a plan for clinical referral and support services if any developmental problems are identified during the follow-up. Additionally, the Guidance states that sponsors should provide study plans for FDA review.

Clinic

Clinic Physicals IT Referral

Beyond the Diagnosis: A Detailed Characterization of Outpatient Palliative Care Patients [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Historically, palliative care has been predominantly provided in the inpatient setting, but there is a growing awareness that patients may also benefit from outpatient care. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023.

Patients

Patients Diagnosis Patient-Centered Utilities

Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

The systematic review of peer-reviewed intervention was published from 2018 to 2023. An Outside Expert Shares Her Perspective Nadine Harris, MD , who was not involved in the study, spoke with Physician’s Weekly ( PW ) about the results and ways to provide optimal care to Black women with HIV.

Mental Health

Mental Health Healthcare Professional Community Healthcare

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. They can’t believe it, but we come back again and again and again gently to provide that support. We just hired a nurse.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Eating fruit provides excellent health benefits and is part of a healthy plate. Fruits provide nutrients vital for health and maintenance of your body. Fiber containing foods such as fruits help provide a feeling of fullness with fewer calories. Then take a moment to reflect on your unique plate. What similarities do you notice?

Referral

Referral Family Medicine DO Primary Care

A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

PEMBlog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Learn how to recognize and manage cases in the emergency department, ask the right questions to uncover inhalant use, and provide critical resources for prevention and support. Clin Toxicol (Phila) 2023; 61:453. For those already misusing inhalants, referral to a substance use disorder program is essential. Intelligencer.

Complication

Complication Patient-Centered Management Patients

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

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. What was life for you as a provider pre-pandemic? And so we’re able to provide access to those patients that may be home-bound or home limited or have a lot of struggles to get in. Stories trump data.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified

Primary Care Digest

Changes in patterns and referrals of Nova Scotians seeking mental health care through 2-1-1 Referral Service [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

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

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

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

A feasibility study of the Illuminate 360o approach for monitoring the implementation of a health system innovation [Mixed methods research]

The utilization patterns and impact of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in Eastern Ontario, Canada [Pain management]

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

Telemedicine and the Prescribing of Controlled Substances After the End of The Covid-19 Pandemic Emergency: DEA Announces Two Significant Proposed Rules: Read the Summary Below, But Learn All the Details and More at HPM’s Webinar on March 23, 2023 (Details Forthcoming….)

FDA Guidance Outlines a Framework for the Evaluation of Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Safety Studies in Neonatal Product Development

Beyond the Diagnosis: A Detailed Characterization of Outpatient Palliative Care Patients [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Leveraging U=U Interventions for Black Women With HIV

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Anatomy of a Healthy Plate- Guest Blogger Rebecca Gray

A Podcast on Inhalant Misuse: From Glue to Galaxy Gas

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

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

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