Mesa Family Physician

MAY 8, 2025

These visits help catch illnesses before they become more serious, reduce healthcare costs in the long term, and improve overall quality of life. The goal is to avoid disease, not just treat it. Why Preventive Health Maintenance Matters The importance of public health and individual wellness cannot be overstated.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Wellness Visit Physicals 100

Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. From managing chronic diseases like diabetes and hypertension to preventive care and health screenings, the clinic is known for providing patient-centered care. Here’s why everyone is talking about it!

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Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

These individuals may become unrepresented, meaning they lack the capacity to make a specific medical decision, do not have an advance directive for that decision, and do not have a surrogate to help. How should we care for unrepresented individuals in inpatient and outpatient settings? So there’s no healthcare surrogate.

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Patient-Centered IT Patients Healthcare 109

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

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Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Chronic Disease Yes 35 (51.5) Chronic Disease Yes 35 (51.5)

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Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. They are therefore the foundation of every healthcare system.

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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. Eric: I think about it as the first one to address individuals’ curative therapy. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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Consulting Patient-Centered Patients IT 115

GeriPal

APRIL 14, 2022

If somebody’s dealing with a chronic pain and multiple chronic diseases, they have an opioid use disorder and we get referred that patient to a palliative care clinic is that in our Bailey wick? Is that something we’re doing? Are we mainly thinking about in people with advanced cancers?

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Illness Patient-Centered IT Patients 102

GeriPal

AUGUST 1, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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IT Diabetes Chronic Disease Patient-Centered 116

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

All of them offer the same array of services, really emphasizing social determinants of health and preventive services like falls prevention, chronic disease, self-management, caregiver training. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse.

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Community Nurse Practitioner Provider IT 89

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

Eric 26:39 But I’m also hearing that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed cases are not those individuals. So I think I remember the early years, once this became more of a chronic disease, I would go to these ID meetings and people would be wringing their hands saying, well, I don’t know how to treat diabetes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic 94

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

Preventive care encompasses a wide range of healthcare services designed to maintain wellness, identify risk factors, and detect disease early when treatment is most effective. Each plays a crucial role in a comprehensive approach to healthcare. These measures are taken after a disease has been diagnosed.

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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. Just thinking about that individual experience, as you’re talking about Bruce. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera. Alex: This is Alex Smith.

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Hospital Patient-Centered Supply Chain IT 115