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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Outcome Measures Definition of Virtual Medicine, Ethical, Professional and Legal Obligations, Requirements that preceded Engaging in Virtual Medicine, Establishing a Patient-Physician Relationship, During and After Engaging in Virtual Medicine, Prescribing and Authorizing.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

A primary care visit is your chance to build a relationship with a provider who will oversee your general health. Doctor appointment length PCP appointment duration If you have multiple issues to discuss, be sure to mention that when scheduling so the clinic can allot enough time. What Is a Primary Care Visit?

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

And I think Bucksport’s success is that there are several behavioral health staff members and a bigger medical staff in the same clinic and they have meetings together, share a lunch room and have easy access to curbside conversations with each other. This is not Orwellian Newspeak; our words can heal, and they can hurt.

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Teamwork Among Primary Care Staff to Achieve Regular Follow-Up of Chronic Patients [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

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).

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Telehealth for Maternity Care: Qualitative Perspectives of Clinicians and Mothers [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Health institutions rapidly adopted video and voice consultations to limit viral transmissions. This concern is in part due to the risk of replacing in-person visits, which are beneficial for building rapport in the mother-infant-provider relationship. For example, telehealth was not viewed as user friendly for clinical use.

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Impact of Financial Incentives and Department Size on Scholarly Activity Output [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

We used the 2022 CERA annual Family Medicine Department Chair survey to characterize the amount and type of scholarly activities by institutional financial incentive status (yes or no) and type (flat vs variable amount), to investigate the relationship between financial incentives and scholarly output.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

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.