Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. We’re already doing it in places like community health centers in New Mexico, rural clinics in North Carolina, and urban hospital systems in Chicago. You don’t have to build it from scratch.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We interviewed 15 staff involved in delivering the SCZ these included GPs, secondary care consultants, and social care practitioners. o Conclusions: The SCZ is well-placed to provide improved preventative care for underserved children and their families.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Finance Family Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Family medicine research is essential to improving population health. Increasing research capacity continues to be a challenge; however, recent literature has touted the success of incentivization in several academic medicine specialties. Summary statistics and logistical regression analyses were conducted.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Observe integrated BHPs and report on clinical activities, workflows and team interactions. Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Population Studied: Integrated BHPs (N = 13) each observed over the course of one randomly selected full clinic day by a trained research assistant.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation tools are considered a promising way to support health providers and older adults in identifying multiple and often complex needs. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

Provider 130

Provider Primary Care Patients Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Réseau de recherche en soins primaires de l’ Université de Montréal (RRSPUM) is the Primary Care (PC) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DFMEM) of our University (Quebec, Canada).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Family Medicine DO Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

We describe a primary care office-based opioid treatment program and addiction consultation service model designed to support small, rural clinics to increase their capacity for MOUD. METHODS This is an evaluation of an intervention to increase clinic capacity to offer MOUD.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Medical Clinic 130

Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 2, 2025

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Family Medicine 52

Family Medicine DO Screening Specialization 52

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China. RESULTS The median length of the 29 video-recorded consultations was 23 minutes 54 seconds. We identified 77 segments focusing on discussions about treatment burden.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician GP General Practitioner Diabetes 130

Pamela Wible MD

MAY 21, 2025

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Private Practice 180

Private Practice Consulting Medical Student Engineering 180

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions. Clinicians practicing in rural areas mentioned using telehealth for mental health care and finding it beneficial for specialist consultations on pregnancy complications. Participants also described challenges to expanding telehealth.

Telehealth 130

Telehealth Consulting Hypertension Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Although studies have shown that more temporally regular (TR) primary care visits are associated with improved patient outcomes, none have examined what clinic staff can do to encourage greater TR visits. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded using Atlas qualitative data analysis software (Lumivero, LLC).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Primary Care Physician Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision. We found thirty-six difficult decisions related to medical consultation, diagnosis, treatment, and daily life.

Management 130

Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 8 General Out-Patient Clinics (GOPCs). They were identified during primary care consultations using consecutive sampling and eligibility screening. A mixed-effects logistic regression model was employed to account for the cluster effect.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Diabetes Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Population studied/Intervention: A case management program (CMP) for people with complex needs was implemented in four primary care clinics of an urban area. Having more consultation time and establishing a relationship of trust with people helped to address their unmet social needs.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Management Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

METHODS We analyzed national weekly diagnosis data for acute respiratory infections (ICD-10 codes J00-J22) in Poland from 2010 to 2019, covering all 380 county-equivalent administrative regions and encompassing 292 million consultations. Data were aggregated into age brackets.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Diagnose Consulting Government 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Thus, we explored how Behavioral Health Consultants (BHCs) defined culture and how it shaped screening, assessment, and treatment of behavioral health conditions in racially and ethnically marginalized patients in IPC settings. However, which approaches are optimal remains unknown.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Behavioral Health Services Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A 2021 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation Vaccine Monitor revealed that 77-84% of patients surveyed would consult a health care provider when deciding whether to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Patient-Centered Primary Care Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A panel of Pacific, Maori and clinical advisors were consulted to finalise one intervention for each health issue. The groups co-generated a range of potential interventions for both gout and rheumatic fever and prioritised them by feasibility, cost, and impact.

Community 130

Community General Practitioner Primary Care Consulting 130

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Maybe they think it’s time to consult an orthopedic surgeon for immediate joint replacement. An MRI augments and adds confidence to our clinical diagnosis. By conducting a thorough exam at our offices, we provide peace of mind and save patients money (and radiation exposure). Is an MRI Always Needed? Reach out today.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Thankfully, in the direct primary care model we are able to schedule patients for as long as they need and keep availability for our members, so we can do all of this and still run on time in clinic. If you have other questions or comments on these tips, please leave a comment below.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addiction medicine consult services have emerged to help address the shortage in access to SUD treatment. This intervention used a primary care addiction consultation service model including education, an addiction medicine consultant, and practice facilitation to increase capacity for opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Medical Illness 130

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. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. What Makes This Medical Clinic Different?

Clinic 52

Clinic Chronic Disease Management Primary Care Medical 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The Time to Ask (TTA) interprofessional education program provides multimodal programming with practice facilitation, expert consultation and hands-on training to primary care teams to better identify, assess, and treat patients with unhealthy alcohol use.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education IT Consulting 130

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

In particular, we talk about Katie’s and Jesica’s paper in NEJM titled “ Juggling Two Full-Time Jobs — Methadone Clinic Engagement and Cancer Care ,” which described the difficulty in managing cancer pain and methadone for opioid use disorder. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. But alcohol and opioids are up there. Should they?

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

We and our guests have noticed that in our clinical practices, patients and caregivers seem to be asking for such treatments more frequently. Daneila Lamas wrote about this issue in the New York Times this week -after we recorded – in her story, a family requested an herbal infusion for their dying mother via feeding tube.

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Patients Illness 77

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

It’s that mixture of intimacy and vulnerability, of shared clinical experiences, that fosters a sense of belonging. Emily 03:59 Medicine is both a science and an art. We definitely draw on the sciences, on biomedical science, on clinical trials, on pharmaceutical design and all sorts of things like that. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

IT 107

IT Community Patients Families 107

Physicians News Digest

MAY 12, 2025

31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the network of doctors and medical clinics who engage in similar work. The indictment also sparked worry among abortion providers like Kohar Der Simonian, medical director for Maine Family Planning.

Telemedicine 52

Telemedicine Families Family Patients 52