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Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

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. nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

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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

Objective: Evaluate implementation of an electronic scoring system (Elders Risk Assessment—ERA) to detect and an adapted risk-factor checklist (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute IllNess in Family Medicine – CERTAIN-FM) to assess older patients at high risk of critical illness in a primary care setting.

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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess provider perceptions of the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine video visits, immediately post-encounter, compared to in-person visits. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023). Outcome Measures: Self-reported Likert-scale responses.

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Nurses perspectives on the characteristics of high-functioning teams in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied : Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses (Registered Practical Nurses in Ontario) working in primary care Intervention/Instrument: N/A. Results : A total of 76 nurses were interviewed. Outcome Measures N/A.

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Healthcare Jobs in Hamden, CT: Opportunities for Every Experience Level

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

Some options at this experience level throughout PACT include jobs like: Clinical medical assistant: Clinical medical assistants are responsible for tasks like interviewing patients, checking patients’ vital signs, and collecting blood samples. Completion of a medical assisting program is required.

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4 Ways Temporary Medical Staff Maintain Patient Care

Barton Associates

Temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens physicians , nurse practitioners (NPs) , physician assistants (PAs) , and dentists travel across the country to work short- and long-term assignments at healthcare facilities that are short-staffed. Adapt quickly to new processes, electronic health record (EHR) systems, and more.