Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Improve Chronic Disease Management We live in a world of aging populations, with rising chronic diseases, multimorbidity, and polypharmacy. All of that is especially important for disadvantaged individuals with more risk factors, more chronic diseases, more medications, and lower health literacy.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

These are patients who had a pre-existing chronic disease, very broadly defined. COPD, heart failure, solid oncology, hematologic malignancy, dementia, ALS, interstitial lung disease, several others. It’s complicated because right now there’s no mechanism other than cost avoidance. Kate: Sure. Eric: Okay.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

But the HIV we do see, and it feels tragic because the people who are dying of and affected by the more kind of traditional, if you call it that, kinds of complications, some of which can be fatal of HIV AIDS are the people who are not on treatment. Older adults may not have received AIDS education. Meredith 17:07 Yes.

Primary Care 96

Primary Care IT Clinic Provider 96

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Tertiary Prevention: Managing Existing Conditions Tertiary preventive care focuses on managing existing chronic diseases to prevent complications, improve quality of life, and reduce the negative impact of disease. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And then, it did, finally, come to an end, but the hospital-at-home community was able to educate policymakers. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

Hospital 115

Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115