Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Persistent and distressful sexual problems are defined as female sexual dysfunction (FSD),, which can increase the risk of physical and emotional health problems. Setting/data set: Inclusion criteria: all patients referred to WH from 1/2022 - 1/2023 who completed the questionnaires. and 250 had an FSDS ≥11.

Transportation 130

Transportation Consulting Mental Health Physicals 130

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. Many patients ask: What happens at a new patient appointment in primary care? People often search: What happens at a new patient visit? How long will it take?

Primary Care 100

Primary Care Appointment Telehealth PCP 100

Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

Sometimes, they push us to cross physical, emotional, or ethical boundaries—to reach those in need or to avoid being complicit through inaction. We must understand how the current policies impact access to care and identify policy-related barriers faced by our patients and families. Emphasize bi-directional collaboration.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Families 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

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.

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Utilities Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Hypertension and depression frequently co-occur, complicating patient management and worsening outcomes. Interventions were categorized into Integrated and Coordinated Care, Behavioral and Psychological Interventions, and Physical and Lifestyle Interventions.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Management Individual Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. However, it is unclear whether results would generalize to other healthcare populations. Outcome Measures: Time to TKA.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Electronics Physicals Clinic 130

Medical Xpress

JUNE 16, 2025

A video consultation between patient and surgeon is just as good as a physical visit to the outpatient clinic to discuss a major operation. This is evident from research by Amsterdam UMC, which demonstrated that a video consultation is just as good as a physical consultation in terms of information uptake.

Consulting 52

Consulting Patients Physicals Clinic 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Many patients with AATD remain unaware that they have the disorder until they develop COPD, despite available genetic testing. The review identified 44 concepts of disease burden grouped into six domains: symptoms, physical function, cognitive function, emotional function, psychosocial function, and treatment burden.

Illness 95

Illness Physicals Patients Healthcare 95

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC is presented not simply as data collection, but as a dynamic, evidence-based clinical process that enhances outcomes, promotes equity, and strengthens team-based care. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. What is MBC? 3, 4) Why is MBC important? 3, 5, 6) b.

Integrated Care 100

Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Existing therapies are suboptimal and many patients resort to opioid therapy. Setting Multi-site study, with participants recruited from outpatient clinical and community settings. Outcome Measures Open-ended scripted questions on the interventions’ impact on pain, function, mental and physical health QoL, and opioid use.

Management 130

Management Mental Health Physicals Community 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 31, 2025

However, as Pirsig argues in his book, focusing solely on the mechanical aspects of any practice—be it fixing a motorcycle or treating a patient—risks losing sight of the human element that gives the work its meaning. This presence transforms routine care into something meaningful for both patient and practitioner.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Patients Diagnose Physicals 130

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

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

These measure the basic functions of one’s body, helping clinicians assess the general health and recovery progress of patients. Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone.

Individual 96

Individual Clinic Medical Patients 96

The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Clinical Reasoning Corner: Likelihood Ratios By Jack Penner Welcome back, Clinical Problem Solvers! Thank you for reading the latest post in our “Clinical Reasoning Corner”, where we discuss key clinical reasoning principles that shape how we think through cases.

Clinic 52

Clinic Diagnosis Hypertension Patients 52

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. Fund technology that supports behavioral health labs —routine assessments just like bloodwork—to inform care in real time and empower patients. You don’t have to build it from scratch.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Data from patients and clinicians on the self-reported prevalence of well water use in the American Midwest and their knowledge regarding testing for arsenic and the risks of long-term exposure. Dataset: Questionnaires for clinicians and patients via emailed surveys.

Patients 130

Patients Routine Screenings Provider Internal Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Past assessments, using the quintuple aim framework, showed positive results in key areas like clinical impact, cost, and provider experiences. However, an important aspect yet to be explored is how patients experience the program. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate patients’ experiences with VTAC.

Patients 130

Patients Healthcare Appointment Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study compared the perspectives of patients and providers using ESOGER, a novel multidimensional assessment tool for older adults. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

Provider 130

Provider Primary Care Patients Consulting 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. What is known, however, is disheartening. as moderate, and 10.9%

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered Families Family 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The availability of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) device has significantly impacted its management; whether it would be a useful tool to engage patients with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 in their care, is unclear. Gaining insight on disease perception of this group would be helpful.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Patients Management Primary Care 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our Mesa clinic offers same-week appointments for preventive services, making it convenient for busy families to prioritize their health. Regular preventive care helps our Mesa patients address these regional health concerns proactively, leading to better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs for our community.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

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 11, 2025

Weight loss programs for older adults also benefit from co-management by an interdisciplinary team that may include a geriatrician, an obesity medicine specialist, an endocrinologist, a registered dietitian, a bone metabolism specialist, a physical therapist and an exercise physiologist.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

All clinicians and staff at CIBH+ participating clinics completed an online survey on feasibility, acceptability, and appropriateness of CIBH+ (descriptive statistical analysis); Semi-structured interviews with leaders, clinicians and staff involved in CIBH+ implementation (iterative constant comparative analysis).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Illness Comprehensive Care Telehealth 130

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. The result?

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Telemedicine Clinic Electronics 52

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While SMS is well established for chronic physical conditions, evidence is lacking to support the implementation of structured SMS programs for common mental disorders, and particularly anxiety. Outcome Measures: The primary outcome measure is the patient-reported Beck Anxiety Inventory.

Management 130

Management Illness Clinic Mental Health 130

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess provider perceptions of the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine video visits, immediately post-encounter, compared to in-person visits. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023).

Telemedicine 130

Telemedicine Primary Care Provider Nurse Practitioner 130

Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A new Johns Hopkins study shows that data gathered from wearable activity trackers can be used to obtain several metrics associated with the user's general physical health and cardiovascular health status.

Clinic 75

Clinic Chronic Disease Hypertension Physicals 75

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Fontana and Gitanjali Srivastava, MD , shared their perspectives with PW about current and potential MASLD treatments and their impacts on patient care. However, these approaches are not 100% effective, and even some patients with morbid obesity who lose a great deal of weight with bariatric surgery do not realize a liver benefit.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Diabetes Referral Primary Care Doctor 52

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Our team of providers utilizes an interdisciplinary model of care, including physical therapy, neurology, primary care, medical imaging, and other areas to address patient well-being from multiple perspectives. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

Management 52

Management Patient-Centered Community Referral 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Describe demographics and outcomes of adults with cancer who received services at integrative medicine clinics. Setting: Integrative medicine centers (n=17) in PRIMIER (Patients Receiving Integrative Medicine Effectiveness Registry) of the BraveNet Practice-Based Research Network.

Screening 130

Screening Utilities Patient-Centered Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation telemedicine tools have been proposed as an effective solution to optimize the care of the growing number of older patients with chronic conditions. It gathers contextual information on physical, cognitive, mental, and social health, and generates an automated summary report of potential vulnerabilities.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context and objectives First defined by a Maori nurse, cultural safety is a concept encompassing environments and therapeutic relationships that are spiritually, socially, emotionally and physically safe for Indigenous peoples; free from aggression and racism or denial of their identities or needs (23).

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Relationship Government 130

FDA Law Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert — FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) recently partnered with the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe) to host a two-day workshop to help advance the use of patient-generated health data (PGHD) to support improved clinical trials, medical device development, and regulatory science.

Patients 59

Patients Patient-Centered Clinic Medical 59