Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study describes the symptoms and impacts of long-Covid and discusses the role of primary care in addressing the impacts of long-Covid. Patients face the task of managing their symptoms to minimize their lifestyle impacts. Patients are left to determine how to seek help when managing their symptoms.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Relationship Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care practices experienced varying levels of success adapting care delivery and office functioning during the pandemic. primary care clinicians. primary care clinicians. rurality, size, ownership, payment model) and were then asked how these affected care delivery.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinic Healthcare Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: We aimed to compare medication review activities between private and public clinics. Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Results: Medication review forms were collected for 103 and 302 visits in private and public clinics, respectively. vs 41.1%) background.

Clinic 130

Clinic Medical Primary Care Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Appointment 130

Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Clinic 130

Clinic Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Management 130

Management Telehealth Education Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Older adults frequently use primary care services, and family physicians exhibit differences in their knowledge and skills to care for older patients. We adjusted for physician factors, medical practice characteristics, and clinical activities relevant to caring for older patients.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Family Physician Families Family 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The PATHWEIGH trial aims to embed structured obesity care into primary care, addressing barriers and boosting clinician confidence and patient outcomes. Barriers include time constraints, lack of training in obesity treatment, limited reimbursement, and the absence of structured care pathways.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, facing the challenges brought by China's national health strategy, aging population, and high incidence of chronic diseases, there is an urgent need to improve the service capacity of China's primary medical institutions.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Education 130

Education Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Medicine 130

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. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

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., CCBHCs focus on comprehensive behavioral health services, ensuring 24/7 crisis care, care coordination, and a broader continuum of behavioral health treatment.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Integrated Care Mental Health 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. Setting or Dataset: Interviews with 21 primary care clinicians in Colorado who treat patients with diabetes.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Diabetes Relationship Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For many patients with long-COVID, primary care is the first point of interaction with the healthcare system. In principle, primary care is well-situated to manage long-COVID. However, beyond expressions of disempowerment, the patient’s perspective regarding the quality of long-COVID care is lacking.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. Setting Studies conducted in the ED, in urgent care centers or in outpatient clinics were included. Population Studies had to include adults (≥ 18 years old) with a clinical diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Central tenets of primary care are essential to the delivery of effective MCC care: person & family-centered, comprehensive, equitable, team-based, collaborative, coordinated and integrated. The emergence of FIHR enables the development of interoperable apps to facilitate comprehensive, shared care planning.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

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. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

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.

Electronics 130

Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

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. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. No counseling is offered.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

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.

Screening 130

Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Case management in primary healthcare has been documented as a promising integrated care approach to overcome fragmented care faced by adults with complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Study Design: Qualitative descriptive multiple case study.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Management Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Consulting Electronics Provider 52

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?

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE This study aimed to assess how agile implementation–driven iterative processes and tailored workflows can facilitate the implementation of a digital cognitive assessment (DCA) tool for patients aged 65 years or older into primary care practices. Screening workflows were tailored to each clinic.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Referral Clinic 130

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.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Family Physician Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Decision-making in chronic pain care is characterized by a high level of decisional conflict (i.e., 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.

Management 130

Management Clinic Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Considering that effective teamwork develops over time and that the activities of primary care nurses are largely dependent on team functioning, highlighting what best promotes effective teamwork from their perspective could contribute to a better understanding of how to support team-based primary care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Management Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

These included volume of paperwork, inbox management, and lack of compensation for the hours of administrative tasks performed. In addition to these contextual factors, 2 main themes were identified: the first revealed the impact of administrative burden on both the time available for patient care and physicians’ well-being.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Family Physician Relationship Families 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Intervention: NA.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The primary aims of this study are to (1) Explore the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of clinical staff who are participating in healthcare activities that address health inequities, and (2) Develop recommendations for healthcare institutions engaging in HE work to minimize harms and maximize benefits to clinical staff.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Management Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 4,852 patients and 114 primary care clinicians in 21 clinics in 3 health systems in 2 states in the U.S. Outcome measures: The primary outcome was a validated 3-item patient engagement measure (CollaboRATE) that measures patient perceptions of communication and decisionmaking during the visit.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Patients Management 130