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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Community Patient-Centered Utilities Diagnosis 130

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room. Invest in Person-Centered, Data-Informed Care Support the use of measurement-based care (MBC), which allows providers to track symptoms over time, improve quality, and avoid unnecessary treatments.

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Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 10, 2025

June 10, 2025) — Maria Ansari, MD, FACC , co-CEO of The Permanente Federation at Kaiser Permanente, has been named to Modern Healthcare’s list of 50 Most Influential Clinical Executives for 2025. The result is high-quality, high-value care within an integrated system — improving lives and shaping the future of health care.”

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Clinic Patient-Centered Healthcare Medical 59

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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Patient-Centered Medical Utilities Patients 130

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., SETTING: Academic medical center.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient-oriented evidence supporting PrT is growing. PrT has historically been taught in mentored clinical settings and medical conferences, not in academic training programs. A 21-item mixed-methods paper survey was developed by co-authors in collaboration with a university-based survey center.

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Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered Families 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

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 DO 52

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. Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. I discussed this debate in my previous blog post.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our family-centered approach ensures children receive age-appropriate preventive care. Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health. At Mesa Family Physicians, we believe that preventing illness is always better than treating it.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

The California-based firm, Second Sight , the German company, Retina Implant AG, and the French venture, Pixium Vision were the forerunners of the field, developing implantable visual prosthetics to restore vision to patients who are blind as a result of the rare condition of retinitis pigmentosa. How far can you see and hear? Globally 1.1

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Diabetes Patient-Centered IT Patients 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

The single-center study, published in the June 2025 issue of Arthritis & Rheumatology, investigators assessed the effectiveness of contrast-enhanced dual-energy CT (CE-DECT) in detecting and differentiating rheumatic joint diseases of the hand. They consecutively enrolled patients with suspected hand arthritis during standard clinical care.

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Patient-Centered Diagnosis Management Utilities 52

PEMBlog

JUNE 26, 2025

In this episode of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast, we explore the clinical pearls behind “no-zone” management, how to distinguish hard and soft signs, when to image versus operate, and why airway always comes first. In terms of assessing the patient with a penetrating neck injury, it all starts with the ABCs.

Management 59

Management Transportation Patient-Centered IT 59

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Patients with ulcerative colitis report better quality of life after IPAA, but bowel symptoms like urgency and incontinence continue to have a negative impact. They asked the patients with various pouch-related conditions about their post-IPAA experiences and symptoms. Barnes, MD, MPH tells Physician’s Weekly ( PW ).

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients Healthcare Professional 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Dr. Smith shares the stories of several patients he met during residency and his early years in practice who illustrate the bad outcomes that accompany not attending to patient's emotions and focusing solely on their physical problems. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

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

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Dr. Len Calabrese. Hello everyone.

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Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Dr. Fontana: Nearly all physicians in practice, including pediatricians, are encountering patients with MASLD and are uncertain how to triage those at risk for progressive liver disease versus those with benign mild liver steatosis. MASLD is the leading reason for referral to a hepatologist in many US medical centers.

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Patient-Centered Diabetes Referral Primary Care Doctor 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that about 1 in 10 American adults have hypercholesterolemia , also known as high cholesterol. of those with a score of 8 or higher.

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Patient-Centered Screening Family Families 52

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.

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Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient satisfaction is often seen as a key indicator of patient-centered care. Organizations want to ensure that patients feel valued, respected, and supported throughout their healthcare journey. The phrases were used by clinical nursing staff over a 90 -day period.

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Patients Family Medicine DO Patient-Centered 130

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center will be located at 1201 Michigan Avenue, Suite 70, Logansport, IN 46947. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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Management Patient-Centered Community Referral 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Patients with this condition experience “symmetric distal degeneration of peripheral nerves and impaired nerve regeneration,” according to the study authors. Assessing Postural Sway in DPN Prior research suggests that patients with diabetes experience increased postural sway even with their eyes open.

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Diabetes Patient-Centered Screening Utilities 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

[link] Sharmin, Kaylin, and Jane are joined by Dr. Risheen Reejhsinghani, cardiologist extraordinaire, Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford, and Associate Program Director of the cardiology fellowship. Elizabeth’s Medical Center and completed a cardiology fellowship at Baystate Medical Center, the western campus of Tufts University.

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Education Patient-Centered IT Specialization 52

Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Check credentials through reliable websites like: American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) American Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE) Don’t hesitate to ask the clinic or hospital about the doctor’s credentials. Ask: How many Type 2 diabetes patients do they treat each month?

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Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

High blood urea nitrogen to albumin ratio values in patients with CKD are linked to greater mortality, indicating its potential value as a prognostic indicator. Adjusted Cox regression analysis confirmed the increased 28-day mortality risk in patients with a higher BAR. Compared with tertile 1, tertile 2 had a 1.49

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Patients Patient-Centered Utilities Illness 52

Sound Physicians

JUNE 9, 2025

Family practitioners hold critical knowledge about that patient’s health history to help guide a more successful stay in the hospital. Hospitals are also showing willingness to consider the ways average LOS differs across service lines, accounting for different patient types and care complexity.

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Telemedicine Hospital Patient-Centered Clinic 52

Permanente Medicine

APRIL 16, 2025

NWP and TPMG are physician-led, independent Permanente Medical Groups who partner exclusively with Kaiser Foundation Health Plan to provide care for their patients in Oregon, southwest Washington, and Northern California. By collaborating clinically, sharing innovations, and supporting physicians and staff, NWP will improve quality of care.

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Medical Patient-Centered Community Hospital 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Patients inquired about general advice for managing HS symptoms.

Education 52

Education Patients Management Patient-Centered 52

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 7, 2024

For many, being in a clinical setting can spike stress and anxiety. It’s important to be able to trust your caregivers, and here at Logansport Memorial, we go above and beyond to develop relationships with our patients and provide personalized, high-quality care for our community. Dee says, “All of this started in December 2022.

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Patients Patient-Centered Diabetes IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Thus, we explored how Behavioral Health Consultants (BHCs) defined culture and how it shaped screening, assessment, and treatment of behavioral health conditions in racially and ethnically marginalized patients in IPC settings. Design/Instrument: This qualitative phenomenological study included piloted semi-structured interviews.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Behavioral Health Services Patient-Centered Illness 130

Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

APRIL 12, 2025

They handle a variety of clinical and administrative tasks to ensure the medical practice runs smoothly. Clinical Tasks The clinical tasks that medical assistants are allowed to do vary by state. For medical assistant positions in CT, typical tasks may include: Interviewing patients about their symptoms and main complaints.

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Medical Healthcare Patient-Centered Primary Care Physician 52

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As a doctor with experience in both primary care and urgent care , I’ve seen firsthand how urgent care centers have become a lifeline for many patients. Understanding Its Role in Healthcare Urgent care clinics are designed to handle non-life-threatening situations that still require timely medical attention. What is Urgent Care?

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ER Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Patient-Centered 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 22, 2025

As chief quality officer at The Permanente Federation, Dr. Bridges oversees coordination of national clinical quality care programs across Kaiser Permanente for its 12.6 As an experienced physician leader, she is known for always going the extra mile for our patients and colleagues. million members.

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Appointment Board-Certified Patient-Centered Integrated Care 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 20, 2025

to remove all 17 of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). This unprecedented dismissal disregards decades of established processes, jeopardizes public health and threatens patient confidence in vaccines. Kennedy, Jr. Call to Action The MAFP urges members to speak out.

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Family Physician Vaccination Families Family 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Dr. Saha’s research focuses broadly on the influence of race and racism in the doctor-patient relationship, its relation to disparities in the quality of health care, and its implications for diversity in the healthcare workforce. He subsequently worked at OHSU and the Portland VA for 2 decades before moving to Johns Hopkins University.

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Electronics Internal Medicine Patient-Centered Healthcare 52