Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Interprofessional primary care teams are crucial for providing comprehensive care to patients with complex health needs. For many professions, interprofessional primary care is a new practice setting and understanding the unique collaborative processes within primary care remains limited.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Provider Comprehensive Care 130

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 9, 2023

The latest clinical practice guideline from the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) organization offers advice for treating patients with diabetes and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

Diabetes 98

Diabetes Comprehensive Care Integrated Care Internal Medicine 98

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

6 This graph shows the association between primary care physician density and life expectancy among US states: 3. Having Your Own Long-Term GP Can Save Your Life Patients who choose a GP rather than a specialist as their primary care provider have a 19% 8 lower mortality and produce 22% 9 -33% 8 lower healthcare spending.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family GP 130

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

As with aging, poetry operates on multiple levels within the palliative care space. . Poetry puts us in our patient’s shoes. Poetry holds us in that liminal space so many of our patients are in. We talk not only about reading poetry, but also writing poetry, and using poetry in medical education as a healing modality.

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.”

Patient-Centered 126

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 126

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we follow the CDC-recommended immunization schedules for all age groups and work with patients to ensure they’re up-to-date on all recommended vaccines. Annual Physical Examinations The comprehensive annual physical remains one of the cornerstone examples of preventive care services.

Preventative Care 100

Preventative Care Preventive Care Family Physician Screening 100