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Leadership and Support Shape Psychiatrist Engagement

Physician's Weekly

Researchers identified key facilitators, behaviors , and barriers to psychiatrists’ involvement in implementing Safewards and other quality improvement initiatives. They used semi-structured interviews and inductive content analysis, 10 psychiatrists from 9 psychiatric clinics in Sweden were recruited through convenience sampling.

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Healthcare Quality Gaps in Chronic Pain Opioid Therapy

Physician's Weekly

Inadequate chronic pain care under long-term opioid therapy highlights the need for better Chronic Care Model integration in outpatient settings. Descriptive statistics were used for outcome scales, and subgroup analyses were performed based on individual characteristics, health status, and pain management variables.

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Drowning in Paperwork: The Burden of Administrative Responsibilities in Primary Care [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: For over 25 years, the burden of clinical administrative services has been cited as contributing to the stress and burnout experienced by family physicians. Individual and team analysis. Participants perceived administrative burden as contributing to burnout and their declining joy in practicing comprehensive care.

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Q&A: Encouraging Cardiovascular Risk Screening in Psoriasis & Psoriatic Arthritis

Physician's Weekly

Merola, MD, MMSc, and Brittany Weber, MD, PhD, crafted practical recommendations enabling dermatologists, rheumatologists, and primary care physicians to embed cardiovascular risk evaluation into psoriatic disease management. Providers need to understand their patients’ individualized needs. Intake is very important.

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"Why Everyone Is Talking About This Medical Clinic in Michigan!"

Plum Health

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

On average, twice as many patients have contact with GPs than with all specialists (in offices and/or outpatient clinics) combined. Well, strong primary care improves access for deprived populations, it offers more comprehensive services, and GPs know their patients longer and better. The numbers above leave no room for doubt.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

And that’s where, based on this, I made a decision to leave University of North Carolina to come to Indiana University because my mentor, Chris Callahan, just received the grant from AHRQ to build the first randomized clinical control trial that evaluated the comprehensive dementia care model. ” Diane: Fantastic.