Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

By engaging with lawmakers and key stakeholders, the Academy worked to ensure that the voices of family physicians were heard in discussions that have the potential to impact healthcare delivery and access for communities across the state. What Happened: This legislation has been enacted into law. Key features of the bill include a 1.3%

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake A recent systematic review provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and indicates that multi-component interventions are more effective than single-component interventions.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 20, 2025

MnVFC recently released a message recommending the continuation of current vaccine recommendation schedules and information on addressing patients’ trust as physicians reenforce the safety and importance of routine immunizations. MDH continues to offer up-to-date resources for health care providers and the public.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Our intervention aims to assist older patients/their carers to have better communication with their family medicine provider about their care after discharge, thereby improving patient safety outcomes.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. Community Partnerships: Mayo Clinic collaborates with local food banks to offer mobile food distributions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: We explored how to design a system to provide near real-time feedback on context and impacts to inform health system innovations; and how to operationalize data collection across diverse patient populations and providers. Study Design and Analysis: We used a mixed-method complexity-informed methodology.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

However, for individuals who do not qualify for federal Medicaid funding—such as most undocumented immigrants—the federal government does not provide matching funds, even when those individuals meet income eligibility requirements. PBMs must also submit detailed drug pricing data to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. The r/Hidradenitis subreddit is an actively growing community that boasts 40,485 subscribers as of August 2024. HS is marked by recurrent, painful nodules, sinus tracts, and abscesses, often located in intertriginous areas.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This includes Healthy People 2030, which has limited PC access to a single measure of ‘usual source of care’ As a result, it is necessary to improve the measurement of PC access and identify measures that can standardize access measurement across all levels of the PC community.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. Therapists and counselors, as well as community support groups, can provide much-needed guidance. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. .”

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PEMBlog

MARCH 20, 2024

But there are some challenges when it comes to the utilization of FOAM: – Decentralization of FOAM resources – Concerns about the quality of information being presented The Solution: The Systematic Online Academic Resource, or SOAR, review was created in an effort to address some of these limitations. How can I use these findings?

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PEMBlog

MARCH 18, 2024

But there are some challenges when it comes to the utilization of FOAM: – Decentralization of FOAM resources – Concerns about the quality of information being presented The Solution: The Systematic Online Academic Resource, or SOAR, review was created in an effort to address some of these limitations. How can I use these findings?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

ED providers and radiologists commonly face the scenario of interpreting a CXR in a child with respiratory complaints prompting the questions: Does that infiltrate represent bacterial pneumonia, inflammation, or simply atelectasis? Drivers of CXR overuse are myriad and can be thought of at the system, provider, and patient levels.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Joe 03:55 You know, my thoughts are screening is important for a variety of reasons, and certainly Doctor Boris and Soo and Anna, Doctor chodos can provide a lot greater clinical insight than I. There has to be effective support provided behind any type of screening strategy in order for it to truly be effective. Joe, your thoughts?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Returning to the early literature that informs the equations reminds us that this research demonstrated racially stratified differences between Black and white cohorts. Our esteemed publications should ensure that investigations that utilize racial variables follow these guidelines before being published. J Epidemiol Community Health.

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Helene highlighted that even wealthy communities and well-financed and well-educated populations can be caught off guard and devastated. I do not mean to paint such a grim picture, but I want to provide a healthy dose of realism. Perhaps the lesson lies in collegiality, comradery, and helping your fellow man. What do you think?

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FDA Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

According to the announcement, enabling patients to access medical devices beyond traditional clinical settings can help close the healthcare gap by delivering care “directly to patients, wherever they are – at home, at work, in cities, in rural communities.” telemedicine and telehealth solutions (e.g.,

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The insight started when Carmen, an orthopedic surgeon-researcher, and Katie, a physical therapist- researcher participated in ride-alongs with EMS providers to patient’s homes. And yet, after assisting the older adult to their feet, the EMS providers would leave. So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Identify realistic solutions to drug policy reform that promote health equity among marginalized communities living in the United States. Screening for substance use and offering connections to treatment and community-based services are important strategies that clinicians can implement in their own practice today.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Fetal Infant Mortality Reviews (FIMR) utilize abstracted health service records and family interviews to examine to identify root causes of infant mortality. Case review findings and recommendations are used for surveillance, quality improvement, policy development, and community education and mobilization. versus 0.8,

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

What Happened: Passed out of the House of Representatives HB 46 – Rural Physicians Tax Credit What’s in the Bill: HB 46 terminates the existing Rural Physician Tax Credit program in Alabama, which provided tax credits to physicians practicing in rural areas, effective December 31, 2025.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. David: Yeah.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

We provide critical education. We provide critical conversations with colleagues and families to coordinate transition planning.” Lynn: Well, I was just going to say there’s such an amazing breadth of things that rehab can provide. ” So that’s something that I think a lot about. And oh, guess what?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

We covered some of our questions on the podcast, others you can ponder on your own or in your journal clubs, including: Maries tele/video palliative care intervention was tailored/refined with the help of a community advisory board. And then we incorporated that information into the consultation process. Was it Sarah? Eric 04:37 Shena.

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FDA Law Blog

JULY 9, 2024

The enrollment goals should be informed by the estimated prevalence or incidence of the disease or condition in the U.S. DAP Goal Rationales The sponsor must also provide a rationale for the study’s proposed enrollment goals, including information and analysis to explain how these goals were determined. population demographics.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community.

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GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. And then second, I was someone who was a Parrot Head for years and years and it was just amazing how the community came together. Who do we have on with us today?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. Basically, there’s a lot of variation amongst hospice providers.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

So usually they’ll make recommendations, maybe some medication adjustments or something like that, and then the provider that’s caring for them in house will take over from there. So the palliative care service doesn’t necessarily need to provide those potentially. Eric 13:49 Right. Alex 14:59 What do you think?

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GeriPal

MAY 15, 2025

Many were community hospitals. At one end of the spectrum you can provide decision makers with information that doesn’t work very well in most contexts. We didn’t make them do anything with that information, just document it. Examples of nudges, some based in health care, others in coffee.

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PEMBlog

APRIL 26, 2023

When we protect our kids from the dangers of gun violence, the whole community stands to benefit. Studies demonstrate that utilizing one of these storage methods can reduce the suicide and unintentional gun deaths in children by up to 54%. [ Kristen ] Great question. Nonjudgmental communication is key to this conversation.

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GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ).

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 19, 2023

I think that policy in the emergency department is showing that no matter what that provider is looking to see if a patient has a preference. So I do think it’s useful to have that additional information. If it was going to be for 48 hours to get them through a community acquired pneumonia. Karl: Yeah, very much so.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: The problem is we communicate late, we share prognosis late, we elicit goals and values late, so all the time while they’re in the ICU getting prolonged intensive care, we don’t really know that we’re providing goal concordant care, so we wanted to nudge it a little upstream. I’m just stunned even writing that!

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Introductory article to İkİIşik H, Sezerol MA, Taşçı Y, et alCOVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary healthcare workers in a district of Istanbul: a cross-sectional study from TurkeyFamily Medicine and Community Health 2022;10:e001430. Fam Med Community Health. BMC Fam Pract. 2020;21(1):151. 2021;9(4):e001228.

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GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

Alex: We’ve got a lot to talk about…what states are doing and cities are doing to support older adults in the community. I’ve been on a quest to build those services and support so that people can make true, informed decisions for themselves and their families. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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