Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care clinics. Feedback from champions was elicited to improve report accuracy and support tool utility. Other suggestions included clinical documentation guidance to align with broader health system goals (e.g., Setting: Large integrated health system. prevention metrics and revenue generation).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Combining these datasets in a consolidated data repository could result in an improved understanding of the care journey, support the healthcare needs of Ontario Health Team priority populations, promote continuity of care improvements across sectors, and decrease burden on emergency departments (EDs) and primary care providers.

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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. Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The PORTRAIT Registry tracked 797 patients with new or worsening PAD symptoms at vascular specialty clinics and highlighted the underutilization of prevention services and significant disparities in quality of life among women, non-white patients, and those with financial barriers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: The authors employed a qualitative research design to study thalassemic patients receiving outpatient treatment at a suburban hospital clinic in Kolkata, India. The authors, both individually and collectively, utilized an immersion-crystallization approach to analyze the content of the interviews.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Virtual visits have emerged as a new mode of accessing healthcare, however not all patients have equal access to virtual care. Patients who may benefit most from virtual care, such as those living in rural areas, may be at greatest risk of not being able to complete a clinical video visit with their provider.

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Barton Associates

JUNE 19, 2025

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. What are the limitations of permanent healthcare staffing solutions? As a healthcare facility, your primary focus is on consistently providing the highest-quality services possible to your patients.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. 3, 5, 6) b.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 14, 2022

[link] Maani and Emily are joined by Dr. Rachael Lee for a clinical unknown. She is the UAB Chief Healthcare Epidemiologist and in this role, she utilizes evidence based medicine to prevent the spread of healthcare-associated infections.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. Among the 151 participants (15% of the total sample) who completed a PAM survey at baseline and follow-up, 69% (104/151) experienced a clinically meaningful increase of four points on the PAM scale.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health. This isn’t just about saving the planet—it’s also about saving money, protecting patients, and strengthening our healthcare systems from the inside out.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Below is a summary of the findings published in that review, which includes structural and operational approaches as well as interventions for clinical encounters. Likewise, training healthcare professionals on vaccine information alone has not been found to improve vaccine uptake. I discussed this debate in my previous blog post.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

During the session, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians actively represented the interests of its members on a range of healthcare initiatives. These funds could be utilized for various purposes, including direct care, operational expenses, and facility maintenance or upgrades.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Elimination of (State-Only) Prospective Payment System Rates to Federally Qualified Health Centers and Rural Health Clinics for Undocumented Immigrants – Eliminates Prospective Payment System rates to clinics for state-only-funded services provided to undocumented Individuals.

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Healthcare Family Physician Management Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

How this finding translates to a clinic’s willingness and capacity to offer telehealth services is unknown. Population Studied: 5,373 healthcare providers in Arkansas. Measures: The outcome measure was the number of monthly telehealth services submitted for reimbursement per provider clinic.

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Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

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Utilities Healthcare Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. More than 35,000 patients completed clinical genetic testing following GWA or BHA completion. Over 33,000 patients have clinical pharmacogenomics data incorporated into the electronic health record supported by clinical decision support tools.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Nwamaka Eneanya and Jennifer Tsai to discuss the limitations and harms of race-based medicine in clinical practice. Our guests explain how we can incorporate race-conscious medicine in clinical settings, medical education, and biomedical/epidemiological research to responsibly recognize and address the harms of racial inequality.

Clinic 52

Clinic Education Clinical Practice Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic Health Systems (MCHS), merely 28% of DO providers perform OMT, leading to long wait times of over three months for new patients seeking OMT referrals. Objective: This study investigates provider attitudes toward OMT and identifies barriers to referrals to address the unmet patient demand.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

“ Climate action in the clinic is the cure we urgently need. ” — Dr. Todd Sack, Executive Director, My Green Doctor Are you on track with your sustainability goals? Healthcare professionals are uniquely positioned to lead on climate—and their patients are listening. That’s where My Green Doctor comes in.

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Healthcare Professional Asthma Healthcare Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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 Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

Many healthcare facilities in the U.S. are already struggling with staffing shortages , but others have turned to healthcare staffing agencies like Barton Associates to fill in the gaps. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Health system innovations aimed at improving healthcare access are complex interventions that can have unintended consequences; hence the need for near real-time evaluation approaches which capture evolving contexts and impacts.

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Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities 130

My Green Doctor

MAY 3, 2025

In This Issue : Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Medical Waste: One Model for Improvement OnTrack with your Sustainability Goals? Powering Health, Protecting the Planet – Why Renewable Energy Belongs in Every Clinic Healthcare professionals have always been trusted voices on public health.

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Healthcare Healthcare Professional Consulting Management 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“These findings highlight the potential of ultrasonic implantable electronics in clinical and translational chronic pain management,” wrote study author Yushun Zeng of the University of Southern California and colleagues. This widespread issue leads to high healthcare costs and lost productivity. of US adults, with 6.9%

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Management Electronics Utilities Clinic 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. Conclusions: The enduring impact of the pandemic underscores the need for evolving healthcare systems and patient care strategies to address ongoing challenges in patients admitted with schizophrenia. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Patients Medical Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with chronic medical conditions (CCs) and behavioral comorbidities have lower quality of life and increased healthcare expenses. Understanding these patterns can help inform clinical care and policy decisions potentially leading to streamlined care and cost-savings.

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Referral Chronic Condition Medical Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Health professions student dyads completed a pre-encounter planning meeting and together performed an interview of a SP in a standard OSCE (observed, structured, clinical evaluation) format. Students received direct feedback from the SPs, and completed pre- and post-session program evaluations.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 9, 2025

Yet this expansion has come with a significant administrative burden, particularly that of clinical documentation. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment. Ambient dictation, or ambient clinical documentation, represents a paradigm shift. This isn’t about replacing your clinical judgment. The result?

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them. When we meet with hospitals who utilize a local pulmonology group about a critical care partnership, we aim to involve the local pulmonary practice early and deliberately when appropriate.

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Management Hospital Telemedicine Board-Certified 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Dr. Barnes and colleagues conducted semistructured interviews at one academic pouch clinic and inflammatory bowel disease center with 15 patients who had undergone IPAA for ulcerative colitis. Dr. Gueorguieva: The results did not surprise me, especially as urgency and incontinence are frequent symptoms that patients discuss in the clinic.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients Healthcare Professional 52

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Constipation is a clinical diagnosis and does not require testing, yet as many as 70% of children who are given a diagnosis of constipation in the emergency department have an abdominal x-ray completed. The diagnosis of constipation should be made based on a good history and clinical exam. 2017;186:87-94.e16. PMID: 28457526.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 26, 2025

Telehealth is no longer an emergency patch; it’s a front-door service channel that patients expect to work every bit as cleanly as a clinic visit. Reynolds Fact checked by Chris Mazzolini Blog Article Telehealth has evolved into a vital service channel, yet many practices struggle with inadequate setups.

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Telehealth Management Patients Finance 52

LEAD Physician

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Physicians should utilize these relationships by learning the names of their coworkers and patients and spending one-on-one time with them to build trust and foster strong relationships. Foster Collaboration Patients are the most critical part of the healthcare equation.

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Relationship Education Management Patients 52

FDA Law Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

address common questions and misconceptions about collecting and submitting to FDA patient engagement information regarding the design and conduct of a medical device clinical study.”. What would be the potential benefits if companies prospectively design medical device clinical studies with input from diverse patient advisors?

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Patients Clinic Medical Patient-Centered 52