Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC is presented not simply as data collection, but as a dynamic, evidence-based clinical process that enhances outcomes, promotes equity, and strengthens team-based care. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. What is MBC? 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

Integrated Care 100

Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Card studies have been influential in changing clinical practice, such as the reduction of antibiotics in patients with upper respiratory infections. In 2022, Bunce et al embedded "card" questions into an electronic health record (EHR) with responses saved to the EHR database.

PCP 130

PCP PCP Primary Care Clinical Practice 130

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

As many as 40% of these children will receive a chest x-ray (CXR) during their ED visit despite clinical guidelines advising most of these tests are low value. Understanding root causes of CXR use in the ED clinical setting is key to mitigating overuse of this test.

Asthma 52

Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But when we have people in rural areas of California, so we don’t know our clinical site, we go from San Francisco all the way to the Northern California border, super rural areas. Why are all these companies after me trying to get my money and get me an electronic wheelchair? And, they thought, “This is a racket.

IT 126

IT Patient-Centered Illness Education 126

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115