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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Brief dermoscopy training has been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy on image recognition tests, but few, if any, studies have examined its effect on clinician behavior and clinical outcome measures. Setting: Divisions of Family Medicine and Community Internal Medicine at a large academic medical center in Southeast Minnesota.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. No counseling is offered.

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Digitally Mediated Therapeutic Relationships in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Therapeutic relationships have been demonstrated as fundamental to primary care delivery. The rapid adoption of digital technologies since the onset of COVID-19 has led health care systems to consider or adopt a "digital-first" primary care delivery model. 8 virtual care visits were observed.

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Early Prevention of Critical Illness in Older Adults: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of an Electronic Risk Score and Checklist [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. ” Nurse practitioners are having those conversations more and more as their patient base trends older. nurse practitioners can practice independently.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Regular visits to your primary care physician at Mesa Family Physicians provide opportunities for early detection of potential health issues before they become serious problems.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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And that made me think more about, they’ve been dealing with these illnesses for many years before we even met them in the ICU, and why aren’t we doing more of this care where they live? In their communities? They’re mostly living at home and living their lives in the community.”