Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed).

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. Comeau, C.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The resulting interactive mHealth implementation guide, replete with detailed examples, can be a valuable resource to integrate mHealth into clinical practice. The rationale for each implementation step highlight why each step is crucial to the implementation success.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

More research with larger sample sizes and longer follow-up periods is needed to fully capture the long-term effects of these interventions and to enhance their applicability in clinical practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

5) that they intended to incorporate aspects of narrative humility into their clinical practice. Respondents strongly agreed (4.8/5) 5) that discussion of patient narratives and framing of health and disease should be incorporated into medical curricula. They also strongly agreed (4.5/5)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none. Clinicians also increased in their awareness of interprofessional rheumatic management, utilizing pharmacy, nursing, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy to their full potential.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This case definition will facilitate research on UTI treatment in community-dwelling older adults and inform Quality Improvement initiatives that align clinical practice with evidence based guidelines. Conclusions We developed and validated a novel EMR-based UTI case definition using a pan-Canadian primary care dataset.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Promoting adherence to medical recommendations remains one of the oldest yet most persistent challenges of modern clinical practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To explore and measure the outcomes of HTA organizations’ guidelines in family medicine. Population Studied: Family physicians, general practitioners, and patients. learning), the use of guideline-based information in clinical practice, and subsequent patient health outcomes.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 27, 2021

She currently serves as Chief of Family and Community Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and is Professor and Vice Chair in the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine. Her interests include chronic illness care, family medicine education, reproductive health, health of Latinxs in the U.S.,

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 18, 2023

health care system there is a paradox, says Elliott Fisher, MD, MPH, a professor of health policy, medicine, and community and family medicine at The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice. At the core of the U.S.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

“Our hope is that using the childhood asthma passive digital marker in clinical practice will improve the early detection of asthma risk in high-risk children, allowing for earlier interventions that could improve asthma control and lessen the future risk of hospitalization,” Owora said in a statement.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The capacity to translate basic research discoveries to clinical application and to synthesize, disseminate, and integrate clinical research results into health care decision-making and clinical practice remain challenging.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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CDOCS

APRIL 14, 2025

This episode of Bonded isn't just about introducing a new faculty member &mdash; it's about welcoming a kindred spirit into the CDOCS family. The camaraderie between Meena, Rich, and Vishal is infectious, and their shared passion for dentistry, education, and laughter shines through from start to finish.</p>

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Incarceration negatively affects the physical and mental health of people who are incarcerated as well as their family members and loved ones, and limits access to healthcare before, during, and after incarceration. Today, the carceral system plays a pivotal role in modern-day eugenics and in reproductive and family control.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Physicians were active in clinical practice and several had expertise in either low-value care or patient-doctor communication. Setting or Dataset: Six virtual patient focus groups with a total of 30 patients and nine telephone physician interviews conducted in 2020.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

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ABIM

JUNE 12, 2025

The American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) is a cosponsoring board for geriatric medicine, which means physicians certified by ABFM who have completed accredited training can also qualify for the Geriatric Medicine Certification Exam administered by ABIM and obtain ABFM Board Certification in Geriatric Medicine.

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

System level innovations such as the electronic health platform, including order entry, were intended to improve efficiency but may result in the unintended consequence of making it easier to order a chest radiograph without substantiating the need or in conflict with best clinical practice guidelines. Does this child have pneumonia?

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Messaging for patients and families When children have a viral respiratory illness, it is usually pretty self evident based on their symptoms e.g. runny nose, cough, congestion. Reasons to not order a comprehensive respiratory viral panel (i.e., It is not good enough to simply ‘do’ things because we ‘can’, it has to be ‘right’.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics released new clinical practice guidelines (CPG) for the evaluation and treatment of pediatric obesity. Context: Primary care providers (PCPs) frequently treat children and adolescents with obesity.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Understanding dyspepsia and its clinical presentation. Join me as I scope out the nuances of gastroesophageal reflux and gastritis and provide practical insights for clinicians in the emergency setting.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Opioids do not discriminate, but social factors distribute risk of overdose death unevenly. People from minoritized communities encounter structural barriers from unwelcoming systems that drive health inequities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To encourage communication about social justice issues including reproductive health and abortion in the family medicine residency setting and to foster an environment of inclusive and open discussion about social justice in medicine. Population Studied: Mayo Clinic family medicine residents.

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice? I wonder if you could engage their family in the goals of care discussion.” Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. I’m guessing not.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 30, 2025

The US Preventive Services Task Force , the American Academy of Family Physicians , and the American College of Chest Physicians recommend annual low-dose computed tomography (CT) screening for adults 50 to 80 years of age who have at least a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke or have smoked within the past 15 years.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regression accounted for clustering within practices, repeated measures over time, and differing intervention start dates. Dataset: Patients within general practices in England who are included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with linkage to PINCER implementation dates.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For instance, a family meeting or an update or communication with families. I’ve worked in palliative care for years, and there’s some times where I’m in the family meeting, I’m facilitating the family meeting, and then I’m reporting out to the referring doctors, and I say, what happened?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Result Twenty-five studies (375,549 participants) reported the association of 93 predictors of success and failure for IMGs. Female sex, English proficiency, graduation recency, higher scores in USMLE step 2 and participation in a skill assessment program were associated with success in qualifying exams.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. And so when you have that, that’s so good for the family. That’s so good for us.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

In case you miss the introductions at the start of the podcast, Bernie and Laurie are married, and offer wonderful reminiscence of their clinical practice over the last several decades. Should we abandon the term, “comfort measures?” And great song choice: Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell. And I think that’s where we want to be.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. They may have few family members, live alone. It’s tough.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So when we encounter anger clinically, when we’re in an encounter with a patient and their family, what are perhaps three steps, and we have the three step model for how we can look within ourselves and respond. What feelings do we have toward the patient and toward their families? Not my normal clinical practice.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Eric: I do not want my family to listen to my podcasts. So, I generally don’t listen to the podcast afterwards, nor force them on my family. Anne: Which episode of the GeriPal podcast has most significantly changed your clinical practice? Alex: We are only on the fourth of 10. They ordered mild to hot.

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