Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Currently, primary care data, community data, and hospital data are not linked in Ontario, resulting in a disconnect in continuity of care. We demonstrated the capacity to implement data-drive QI approaches to support patient care across health care sectors using the novel merged datasets.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The practice of occupational therapy in primary care is still developing in Quebec and in Canada. However, it is important to clarify what are the priority interventions they should offer to adapt to the primary care context and the needs of the clientele followed in this specific environment.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. TL1 or KL2), including in team science, community-engaged research (CER), and implementation science (IS), all well aligned with PC research.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. 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

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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Primary Care Education Patients Healthcare Professional 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is a gap in the literature on understanding experiences of food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults and the role primary care providers can play in systematically screening older adults for age related food issues. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Community health worker (CHW) interventions show promising outcomes for T2D and HTN control particularly among low income and historically marginalized patients. However, studies on the generalizability and implementation of CHW interventions in clinical and community settings are limited. Setting 3 primary care clinics in SW Virginia.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Process evaluation Setting: Community. PERC’s support includes providing strategic advice and input into grant development, reviewing study documents associated with patient engagement plans and methodology, writing letters of support, and advising on patient engagement strategies and resources.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care must address the complex needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions, given 40% of patients seen in primary care have behavioral health needs. Setting/Dataset Forty-two primary care practices across the U.S. 6.1), Integration Methods 4.6 (95% 7.6), Patient Identification 2.9 (95%

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health services constitute the cornerstone of China's primary healthcare system. Since the recent healthcare reforms, significant strides have been made in the development of community health services across the country.

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Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Gender affirming medical care is associated with long term benefits for transgender and non-binary patients but access to such care does not meet the current need. This mismatch is worsened in rural communities. Outcome Measures Self-rated knowledge and confidence in provider competence before and after the course.

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Education Primary Care Provider Community 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.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 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.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

At the University of California Los Angeles, the PRIME Leadership and Advocacy (PRIME-LA) program prepares medical students to be leaders and advocates in clinical care, research, or policymaking for marginalized communities. selected primary care specialties including family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine.

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The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

Forty years ago, Eric Redman's classic book The Dance of Legislation provided a compelling "insider's account" of how the U.S. Envisioned by Seattle pediatrician Abraham Bergman, MD as a way to recruit idealistic young physicians to "doctor deficient" communities throughout the U.S.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is paramount to understand the barriers faced by the AI/AN community to better serve their medical needs. The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. Results: All hypotheses were supported.

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Primary Care Utilities Community Preventive Care 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. 3) ECHO Pain is equitable – through use of telehealth technology, ECHO Pain provides timely education to clinicians practicing in rural, remote, and underserved communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Deaf experience many barriers when accessing health care and services. A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research. Setting: Any context of health care or services. Popay et al.’s

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Improved asthma outcomes are associated with effective communication between patients and providers, such as using shared decision-making.

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Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural facilities report challenges and solutions to meet community needs for specialty care. Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support.

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Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. Objective We aim to compare the effects of two social prescribing (SP) lay navigation models on HCU in a randomized controlled trial.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to a call initiated by CIHR in 2023, inviting patient, public, and community participation, the Patient Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) responded with a Report on March 25, 2024.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service).

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Addressing structural vulnerability is an increasing focus for primary care researchers. The research team comprised experienced (2), midcareer (2) and junior researchers (2) working with structurally vulnerable populations across a range of communities. Reflexive thematic analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Therapeutic relationships have been demonstrated as fundamental to primary care delivery. The rapid adoption of digital technologies since the onset of COVID-19 has led health care systems to consider or adopt a "digital-first" primary care delivery model. 8 virtual care visits were observed.

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Primary Care Relationship Nurse Practitioner Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP). Method : We enrolled community-dwelling older adults with mild/moderate frailty under the care of Fraser Health and Nova Scotia Health (n=100).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

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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. My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Measures of handgrip strength are collected in primary care settings as a vital sign for the prevention of health conditions related to low muscle strength. Population Studied: Generally healthy community-dwelling older adults. Interclass correlation coefficients were used for the analyses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Weight loss is desired by many patients, but many primary care practices struggle to provide this care. PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight loss care to patients as part of regular health care.

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Primary Care Management Electronics Provider 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Family physicians are being squeezed by two accelerating trends: (1) too few of us to care for the growing US population and (2) the rising number of tasks that we are asked to accomplish for each patient. hours) allocated to preventive care. hours per day, with more than one-half of that time (14.1

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