Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Champions in CQI refer to individuals who lead or facilitate such initiatives, and they seem to be a key ingredient in promoting quality improvement in Primary healthcare Clinics (PHC). Each case has been informed champion, change agent, peers and managers. Setting: Cases (4) were defined as champion that promote CQI in PHC.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Diabetes Self-management Coaching is an emergent, client-centered, solution-focused approach to enhancing self-efficacy and self-care behavior. There is no effective self-management support program for individuals in the PC setting of low-income countries like Ethiopia.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The aim of this study is to explore how to enhance primary healthcare capacity in China from the perspective of managers of primary health care institutions. The ecological environment of primary healthcare can be divided into three categories: health policies, the institution's endogenous resources, and exogenous resources.

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Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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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AMMD

MAY 6, 2025

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.

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Management IT Clinic Provider 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Researchers developed a novel ultrasonic implant that shows promise for personalized, efficient, and minimally invasive chronic pain management. Research published in Nature Electronics detailed the development of a novel, programmable, self-adaptive ultrasonic wireless implant that could revolutionize chronic pain management.

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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. Management of penetrating neck injury in children: A review of the National Trauma Data Bank.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To prepare family medicine (FM) residents for OUD care post graduation, it is critical they receive robust residency training in OUD diagnosis and management. It included training in OUD diagnosis and management with modules, medication assisted therapy (MAT) clinics, inpatient addiction psychiatry rotations and didactic lectures.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While primary care (PC) settings have the potential to bridge this gap in care, many care teams lack the education and training required to effectively manage patients with OUD. Study Design and Analysis: PC teams (clinical and non-clinical roles) attended 12 online monthly OUD sessions.

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Primary Care Education Individual Screening 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

As rates of obesity continue to rise alongside new therapeutic options, a team of researchers at the 85th Scientific Sessions of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) will present findings from PATHWEIGH , a pragmatic clinical trial designed to embed evidence-based obesity care directly into primary care workflows.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Launched in 2017, Project ECHO Rheumatology (‘ECHO’) has welcomed over 500 primary care clinicians provincially to learn about rheumatic disease diagnoses and management. ECHO is a promising education model that builds capacity within primary care to manage rheumatic conditions more adeptly and wisely.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These gaps and the lack of implementation planning render standardized training and learner competency development in virtual care management difficult. Conclusions Standards for virtual health care are generally consistent with those established for inperson settings; however there remain serious gaps between regulatory bodies.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting Multi-site study, with participants recruited from outpatient clinical and community settings. Study Design In-depth interviews, completed at the 12-month follow-up, yielded qualitative data, which were transcribed and analyzed (thematic analysis) through NVivo software.

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Management Mental Health Physicals Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addressing mental health and HRSNs can improve diabetes outcomes, but stigma surrounding these issues can make both patients and providers uncomfortable during clinical discussions. However, mental health conditions and health-related social needs (HRSNs) can complicate patients’ success. Outcome Measures: Emergent themes.

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Mental Health Diabetes Relationship Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Most of difficult decisions on pain management are faced in primary care. Objective: To identify risk factors of clinically significant decisional conflict from a national survey across Canada. 0.7]) are modifiable risk factors that reduce the risk of clinically significant decisional conflict. 3.6]) and incomplete (OR=1.5 [1;

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Developing innovative approaches to prevent or manage age-related health problems and disabilities is a public health priority. Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. Objective: To validate Proactive. Setting: Community-based.

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Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

KevinMD

JUNE 21, 2025

An excerpt from Real Medicine, Unreal Stories: Lessons and Insights from Clinical Practice (Volume 2). “You two always manage Read more… How inspiration and family stories shape our most meaningful moments originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The most recent international guidelines for the management of acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis in adults (2010) recommend treatment to be initiated with a single dose of intravenous (IV) ceftriaxone or an aminoglycoside when the prevalence of fluoroquinolone resistance is unknown or exceeds 10%. Intervention N/A.

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Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Dr. Zaar

MAY 20, 2025

Some clinics even offer home-testing kits for convenience. Treatment Options Through Virtual Clinics Once diagnosed, treatment options vary based on the root cause. Benefits of Managing Menstrual Health Online Virtual care offers flexibility. When to Seek Immediate Medical Attention Not all symptoms can be managed virtually.

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Management Appointment Lab Testing Consulting 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Results: 72 care team members at 9 clinics participated. Context: Evaluating organizational readiness for implementing digital health solutions can identify potential barriers and increase the likelihood of sustained adoption.

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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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To examine clinician self-report of clinic strong or weak functioning during the pandemic and determine which clinic and clinician characteristics were associated with ability to function, and why. For example, some in small clinics were able to implement changes rapidly without committee proceedings.

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Primary Care Clinic Healthcare Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Using purposive sampling from a long-COVID clinic, we conducted semi-structured interviews with English-speaking, adult primary care patients describing symptoms of long-COVID. Patients face the task of managing their symptoms to minimize their lifestyle impacts.

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Primary Care Patients Relationship Illness 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults?

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Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

Reflections from managers and staff indicated that service users felt more equipped to manage anxiety in daily life through newly learned sensory strategies. Staff reports gaining a valuable new perspective for clinical use, described as “sensory glasses.”

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Mental Health Management Individual Clinic 92

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Nearly all patients with type 2 diabetes have comorbid chronic conditions, adding complexity to self-management. Setting: Two urban primary care clinics in Minnesota, USA. Descriptive statistics of baseline patient demographics and post-encounter surveys, and of clinician post-encounter surveys.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Screening Patient-Centered 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Mixed Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia: A Systematic Review of Epidemiology, Clinical Characteristics, Therapies, and Outcomes,” published in the May 2025 issue of American Journal of Hematology by Jacobs et al. The median age of the participants was 45 years, with a marked female predominance of 2.25:1.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care. The program explores themes such as sleep, managing difficult emotions, exercise, relaxation techniques, decision-making, problem-solving, and creating concrete action plans.

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Sound Physicians

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For hospitals, this means investing in cutting-edge medical interventions and partnerships that help them transition to the modern best-practice of dedicated ICU management. Sound Critical Care is at the forefront of bringing coordinated leadership and clinical excellence to hospital ICUs and the patients within them.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Hypertension Canada recommends home blood pressure monitors (HBPM) for diagnosing and managing hypertension. This makes determining HBPM accuracy of great clinical importance, but there is no established method of doing so in the office. Setting Kaye Edmonton Clinic Family Medicine Clinic and a hypertension research lab.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 21, 2025

On January 7, 2025, SAMHSA announced the award of one-year Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics (CCBHCs) Demonstration planning grants to 14 states and Washington, D.C., Consider a tiered approach where generalist BHCs work within primary care while specialists manage higher-acuity cases through the CCBHC framework.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2023

The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) recently released a new clinical guideline on respiratory management of patients with neuromuscular weakness. Published in the journal CHEST, the guideline contains 15 evidence-based recommendations, a good practice statement and an ungraded consensus-based statement.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. I stepped down as director of the Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

I’m the Vice Chairman of Rheumatology at the Cleveland Clinic and the co-director of the Center for Vasculitis Care and Research. And I’m here today to talk about giant cell arteritis in clinical practice. So always important to consider the clinical context and patient symptoms there. Hello everyone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Self-management support (SMS) is a complementary intervention to evidence-based treatments that promotes self-efficacy and empowerment. Objective: To examine the effectiveness of a virtual group self-management support intervention as an add-on to treatment as-usual (TAU).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Academic family medicine clinic in Edmonton, Canada. Family physicians who practiced at the clinic were eligible to take part. Population Studied: Seven physicians and 15 patients took part in the study. Moreover, patients commented on the value of having their doctor understand what is important to them.

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Diabetes Patients Patient-Centered Family Physician 130