Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding each team member's role, fostering open communication channels, and establishing clear administrative procedures are highlighted as essential elements for fostering successful collaborative practices within the clinic. Setting: One multidisciplinary primary care team in the province of Quebec, Canada.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Patient messaging to providers has dramatically increased since the pandemic, leading to informatics efforts to categorize messages to facilitate more efficient review. The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians. Population Studied 10 female primary care providers and 1 male providers.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The overarching objective of the MU is to enhance the delivery of high-quality care to a broader patient population. Setting or Dataset: Data includes secondary data gathered through Epic electronic medical records system as well as primary data collected from physicians, APPs, and staff working in the MU.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Unfortunately, most individuals suffering from OUD do not have access to necessary care. While primary care (PC) settings have the potential to bridge this gap in care, many care teams lack the education and training required to effectively manage patients with OUD.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Objective: Our objective was to improve the TCM clinic no-show rate and thereby improve patient outcomes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. The 60+ Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSAs)-supported institutional programs also offer robust training (e.g., Research training is rate-limiting.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

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. Conclusions We developed and validated a novel EMR-based UTI case definition using a pan-Canadian primary care dataset.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Setting: Primary care clinics partnered with an academic health center. A one-time survey was also conducted.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is a gap in the literature on understanding experiences of food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults and the role primary care providers can play in systematically screening older adults for age related food issues. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.

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Primary Care Screening Family Doctor Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At the University of California Los Angeles, the PRIME Leadership and Advocacy (PRIME-LA) program prepares medical students to be leaders and advocates in clinical care, research, or policymaking for marginalized communities. Family Medicine was the most common specialty among alumni respondents (29.9%).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care must address the complex needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions, given 40% of patients seen in primary care have behavioral health needs. Setting/Dataset Forty-two primary care practices across the U.S. 6.1), Integration Methods 4.6 (95% 7.6), Patient Identification 2.9 (95%

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.

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Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Older adults frequently use primary care services, and family physicians exhibit differences in their knowledge and skills to care for older patients. Objective: To compare family physician practice on established performance measures derived from a modified Delphi process.

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Primary Care Family Physician Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

BACKGROUND: Despite the emphasis of primary care’s (PC) role in breast cancer follow-up improvements have had limited clinical impact. OBJECTIVE: To prioritize implementation strategies to support PC adoption of evidence to guide breast cancer follow-up care.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Our study investigates ID prevalence in Alberta from 2010 to 2022 and its association with patient and provider characteristics. We hypothesize that the prevalence of ID in Alberta has been increasing over the past decade based on clinical observations and anecdotes. 2020-2022). 2020-2022).

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Clinic Primary Care Electronics Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: We hosted a series of meetings with thought leaders in primary care research and relationship science. Population Studied: Foundations come from collective leadership over time in both relationship science and Family Medicine and from published literature.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This study aims to examine individual, organizational, and contextual factors associated with patients’ experience of access to their multidisciplinary primary healthcare clinic. This cross-sectional study builds on survey data collected in multidisciplinary PHC clinics. 104 PHC clinics across 14 regions of Quebec, Canada.

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Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For many patients with long-COVID, primary care is the first point of interaction with the healthcare system. In principle, primary care is well-situated to manage long-COVID. However, beyond expressions of disempowerment, the patient’s perspective regarding the quality of long-COVID care is lacking.

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Healthcare Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Setting: Primary care clinics across Saskatchewan.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

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Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state.

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Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered Family Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This makes determining HBPM accuracy of great clinical importance, but there is no established method of doing so in the office. Setting Kaye Edmonton Clinic Family Medicine Clinic and a hypertension research lab. However, 29% of HBPMs are inaccurate by 10 mmHg or more. Population Adults who own a HBPM.

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Hypertension Family Physician Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, studies on the generalizability and implementation of CHW interventions in clinical and community settings are limited. Setting 3 primary care clinics in SW Virginia. Intervention Exposure to a CHW vs. usual care. Results 10,509 unique patients with T2D and/or HTN visited the primary care clinics.

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Hypertension Community Diabetes Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addressing mental health and HRSNs can improve diabetes outcomes, but stigma surrounding these issues can make both patients and providers uncomfortable during clinical discussions. Consequently, clinicians may avoid these stigmatized topics and provide general recommendations that can’t be followed by patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Central tenets of primary care are essential to the delivery of effective MCC care: person & family-centered, comprehensive, equitable, team-based, collaborative, coordinated and integrated. The emergence of FIHR enables the development of interoperable apps to facilitate comprehensive, shared care planning.

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Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Intervention: NA.

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Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context While poverty is a risk factor for many chronic conditions, when it is recognized by care providers social screening can be used to positively impact patients’ health. Joseph’s Primary Care Clinic in Saint John, NB, Canada in 2023. Setting The study was set at St. Of screened patients, 94.4%

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Primary Care Screening Provider Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Gender affirming medical care is associated with long term benefits for transgender and non-binary patients but access to such care does not meet the current need. Population Studied Upper Midwest based providers interested in providing gender affirming and primary care for transgender adults located in rural areas.

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Education Primary Care Provider Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: In a convergent, mixed methods design, a cross-sectional survey allowed us to assess the concurrent validity of Proactive by comparing its results with those of a clinical examination. Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of PGx in primary care (i.e.

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Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. Setting Studies conducted in the ED, in urgent care centers or in outpatient clinics were included. Population Studies had to include adults (≥ 18 years old) with a clinical diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: A qualitative study Setting: Primary care setting in Shanghai, China Population Studied, 15 directors of the high-quality development pilot community health service centers in Shanghai were selected as interviewees.

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Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Results: 72 care team members at 9 clinics participated. Conclusion: COACH pre-implementation evaluation provided information that informed implementation and trial protocol changes and may increase the adoption of COACH.

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Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Participants were enrolled from primary care settings including outpatient clinics and urgent care from 6 practice-based research networks distributed across the United States. The larger, full-scale trial will provide more data on the association between acute rhinosinusitis and substance use.

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