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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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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Study Design A behavioral health curriculum was designed for second year residents.

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I survived hospice: Live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hospice aims to manage a patient’s symptoms as they near end of life. Outcome measures: Reason for live discharge, length of hospice stay, discharge planning steps documented, clinical course for 6 months post-discharge. Population Studied: Patients admitted to home hospice and discharged alive in 2022. ordering meds).

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

These visits may focus on preventive care, managing chronic conditions, addressing new concerns, or simply creating a baseline of your current health status. Doctor appointment length PCP appointment duration If you have multiple issues to discuss, be sure to mention that when scheduling so the clinic can allot enough time.

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Feasibility,reliability,validity of an electronic Frailty Index based on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

To promote early management of frailty, we developed an electronic Frailty Index based on deficit accumulation in a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (eFI-CGA) from electronic health records. Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP). by PCP, r≥0.45

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Card studies using EHR alerts linked to REDCap questionnaires: a practical session on how to build the tools [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background Researchers use card studies to obtain observational data about primary care provider (PCP) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on a variety of topics. Card studies have been influential in changing clinical practice, such as the reduction of antibiotics in patients with upper respiratory infections.

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How to Improve Care for Patients With Multiple Chronic Conditions

Physician's Weekly

Many of these patients are clinically complex and receive care from multiple professionals—which creates unique management hurdles. Regularly, specialists have to ask patients to explain why their PCPs referred them, and few specialists still send “courtesy” notes to PCPs after a consultation.