Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recognizes the critical role of family medicine (FM) research in primary care and healthcare systems. Engaging researchers and leveraging evidence are essential for addressing the challenges faced by FM and family physicians.

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Plum Health

JUNE 9, 2025

Donovan Ogboh is a Family Medicine Doctor in Detroit Michigan Dr. Donovan Ogboh is a board-certified family medicine physician with a dedicated interest in preventive care, sports medicine, pediatric care, women’s health, and the ongoing management of chronic conditions.

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The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

Envisioned by Seattle pediatrician Abraham Bergman, MD as a way to recruit idealistic young physicians to "doctor deficient" communities throughout the U.S., Health Policy Fellowship Department of Family Medicine Georgetown University School of Medicine Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Media representation of individuals with disabilities shapes public perception and understanding of disability. Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) often experience negative stigma from society. Use of diverse media, particularly film, largely contributes to societal stigma pertaining to different groups of people.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Listening to families from these communities about their experiences could identify modifiable barriers to quality pediatric serious illness care and facilitate the development of potential improvements. Setting: Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A couple of years ago, I partnered with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Longitudinal Certificate Course project. It was true in both university and community settings, urban- and rural-focused programs, large and small. It was the top answer at each residency as a whole, except for one.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Science and health literacy is limited particularly in under-represented communities. Plain language, communication at the 5th grade reading level, is an important tool to improve scientific literacy, build mutual trust and respect, and ensure the success of our studies. Setting: Western New York.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Design and analysis: The study employed a comprehensive cohort design to compare individuals with T2D who were Ethiopian-born to their Israeli-born counterparts. Setting: Community-based study using Clalit Health Services (CHS) data. Setting: Community-based study using Clalit Health Services (CHS) data. 0.83, HR 0.70; 95% CI 0.65-0.76,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The predictors of exposure to DDI among the population of non-elderly community-dwelling adults are unknown. Population Studied: Community-dwelling non-elderly adults (19-64 years) residents of Quebec and covered by the public prescription drug insurance between 2014 and 2017.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to help individuals address their health and social needs wherein a healthcare practitioner refers patients to non-clinal services in the community. Models of SP vary, and the experience of patients across these models is less known.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic. Population Studied individuals with comorbidity of hypertension and type 2 diabetes. Results After propensity score matching, a total of 3546 individuals with average age of 70 years were included, and 388 (10.94%) individuals were treated by SGLT-2 inhibitors.

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Canadian Family Physician

MARCH 18, 2025

Participants Early-career family physicians. Methods Initially a deductive analysis was conducted using a framework for categorizing 3 different levels of social accountability (individual patient [micro], community [meso], and system [macro]).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The research team comprised experienced (2), midcareer (2) and junior researchers (2) working with structurally vulnerable populations across a range of communities. Setting: Community based researchers from a Canadian academic setting. Reflexive thematic analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

PHC providers routinely consider patients’ perspectives to make choices about their care at an individual level but patients also have valuable expertise that can improve how PHC is organized at practice, regional, and provincial levels.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Little is known about variation in adoption of CCS modalities in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in communities where cervical cancer disparities persist. Among 12,506 screened average-risk individuals, the mean age was 39.0 were White, 16.0% Hispanic or Latino, 30% rural and 27% not insured. vs 69.3%, p <0.001).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Community-dwelling, non-institutionalized, United States adults aged 20 years and older (N=14,759). Non-Hispanic (NH) White individuals who were never married (OR: 1.29), cohabiting (OR: 1.46), or divorced/separated (OR: 1.66) had greater odds of worse depression vs. married.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Population: All clinicians in Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Internal Medicine caring for individuals aged 22 years and younger in the Virginia All Payers Claims Database (APCD). Clinicians receiving any support from VMAP tended to be female, <40 years old, and practiced in rural communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Substance use disorders (SUD) significantly impact the physical, social, and mental health of individuals, their families, and the wider community. Recovery is a unique, multidimensional process where individuals strive to enhance their health and wellness.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a collaborative research approach that equally engages researchers and community stakeholders throughout the research process. Study Design and Analysis: This scoping review follows the Arksey and O’Malley methodological framework.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Advancements to evaluating the impact of participatory health research (PHR) have been made through comprehensive models like the community-based participatory research (CBPR) conceptual model, a useful framework for exploring how context and partnership processes can influence health research design and interventions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive study using a practical thematic analysis of data from individual online interviews. Population: We interviewed family physician educators based at three teaching units in Montreal. Supporting quotes will be presented for each theme.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Several studies have documented that individuals with greater social determinants of health risks (SDOH) are more likely to use tobacco. What is not known is if provision of tobacco cessation assistance is equally likely for individuals with different levels of SDOH risk. Design and Analysis: Observational study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Community-based. Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. Participants' comments while completing Proactive provided a qualitative assessment of the validity of the response process, and interviews assessed social validity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Access to primary care in Canada is a pressing concern, with over one in five individuals lacking a regular primary care provider. Setting Community Population Studied Educators, patient partners, policymakers, healthcare professionals, and researchers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One practice developed materials with examples of alcohol-related myths frequently heard from their patients and community and used science-based responses to address stigma and foster conversation around alcohol use. Tailoring individual strategies can facilitate SBIRT implementation in rural PC practices.

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Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family Medicine (FM) and NAPCRG champion involving patients and communities in research. Clinical practitioners, patients, and community representatives increasingly make major contributions to primary care (PC) research. Panels can be created for individual studies or continue for institutions or programs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals. Centralised policies such as the Triple Aim have inherent polarities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SETTING: Outpatient and community. These interventions should be accessible to patients as a part of 'usual care' for complex, refractory, opioid-treated CLBP as the means for improving lives and health, and reducing the individual and societal burdens of CLBP and opioid-related harm.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is unclear how community resources may impact BF practices. Objective: To explore the association of community resources with BF, and whether the association varies based on maternal race, ethnicity and country of birth. a census tract measure of community resources associated with child development.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians has been a longtime supporter of HCH, as some of our leaders were involved as the initiative came together. Many of our family medicine physicians work in certified health care homes; they value the infrastructure that the HCH model provides to ensure comprehensive and coordinated care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Individuals who frequently attend the ED comprise up to 10% of patients, while accounting for a third of ED visits. The reasons for a lower proportion of patients experiencing high ED use could be multi-factorial, including a greater availability of primary care and an increased accessibility of community resources.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JUNE 1, 2025

This is a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people and allies alike unite to support each other, strengthen the community, and celebrate themselves and others with parades and joyous events. The stigma creates serious problems and the judgment that those in the community experience every day is exhausting.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The ESOGER tool is a telemedicine tool in the form of a telephone assessment questionnaire for individuals aged 65 and over. The tool was implemented and tested in four university-affiliated family medicine groups in Quebec, Canada from December 2021 to October 2022. Setting or dataset: Community-based practice.

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Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To explore participants’ barriers to and facilitators of engagement in a multilevel, cross-sector clinical trial designed to address social needs and improve health-related outcomes for individuals with T2D experiencing food insecurity. their 3-month endpoint visit). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to the growing overdose epidemic, communities in US and Canada have started using vending machines (VMs) as a low-barrier method to provide harm reduction (HR) items to the community. Population Studied: Individuals with substance use disorder or co-occurring conditions.

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Community Utilities Provider Individual 130

Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Safer Solutions For Lasting Relief Living with chronic pain can be exhausting, especially for individuals in rural areas who may struggle to access regular care. Alternative treatments offer relief while prioritizing long-term health, allowing individuals to regain a sense of control and comfort.

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