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Advancing Primary Care through a Model Unit for Innovative Practice Enhancement [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention/Instrument: In its first phase, the MU incorporated three interventions tailored specifically to its context: nurse-led hypertension management, integration of blocks of telehealth consultations into routine clinician schedules, and a pilot of an ambient documentation system to supplant clinician-generated visit notes.

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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. The goal of ECHO Pain is to educate, support, and improve chronic pain and opioid management in Ontario’s rural, remote, and underserved areas.

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Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Clinical outcomes of administering an ePROM of barriers to adherence to ART to people with HIV through a patient portal [Clinical research (other)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To describe patient and service-related outcomes of the I-Score intervention and outline adherence barrier management by physicians. Setting: A hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada. For service outcomes, we report frequencies and proportions of clinical visits where physicians took actions based on I-Score results.

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Patient Perceptions of a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in Southwest Virginia [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Lifestyle Medicine (LM) is an evidence-based approach to prevention and treatment of chronic disease by addressing six pillars: physical activity, nutrition, sleep and stress management (recovery), connection, and substance use. Objective To assess patient perceptions of a primary care-based LM clinic.

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Adjunctive Saline Nasal Irrigation for Acute Rhinosinusitis: Results of a Randomized Pilot Study [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

OBJECTIVE We assessed feasibility and patient-reported clinical outcomes of adjunctive use of SNI in ARS. Secondary: average rate of SNI use, percentage of participants who used SNI at least 50% of study days; perceived effect on sino-nasal symptoms; association of SNI use with validated clinical outcomes instrument severity score.

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How To Manage Perimenopause with Targeted Support

AMMD

The key is understanding what is happening in your body and learning how to manage perimenopause. Rest assured, there are a few important lifestyle integrations that make this transition smoother and more manageable for women aging. The good news is that you can learn how to manage perimenopause effects.