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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organizations determine the value of health technologies such as medical devices, lab tests, or medications. Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Setting: Community-based primary health care.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

I’m a family physician by training. When I started over 20 years ago, saw babies being born, used to do circumcisions in clinics, and then taking care of patients as they got more mature in their life, so to speak, and really loved that. Like most everyone else, I started off really just taking care of patients.

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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

What is the meaning of Family Medicine? As the name suggests, a family physician can take care of your entire family – from the day of your birth (even before!) I love family medicine because as family physicians, we can be trained to provide care for patients in many different settings.