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. Also encourage state Medicaid offices to renew efforts to limit regulation related to integrated care practices.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Between September 2022 and June 2023, online questionnaires were sent to patients attached to a family physician and to PHC professionals and administrative staff. Analyses were stratified by the number of consultations in the last 12 months: between 1 and 5 or over 5 consultations. Population studied. Instrument.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In recent years, given significant challenges with accessing primary care physicians in Canada, there has been increased attention towards involving other health care providers, such as rehabilitation professionals, for managing different conditions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integrated behavioral health (IBH) within primary care can help patients receive quality whole person care, however little is documented about the distribution and nature of time spent in key activities by integrated psychologists (i.e., Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A consultation was conducted with eight members of the Deaf community to complete the results. Setting: Any context of health care or services. Intervention/Instrument: Access to health care and services as conceptualized by Levesque et al. Popay et al.’s Population Studied: Deaf adults.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This study aimed to explore discussion strategies used in real-world GP-patient consultations when discussing obesity. Method: Secondary data analysis of Australia’s first, and only, Digital Library of real-world video recorded consultations was used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Offering medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in primary care can increase access to effective opioid use disorder treatment and help address the US opioid crisis. The intervention consists of a standardized curriculum, addiction medicine consultants, practice facilitation, and financial incentives.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Réseau de recherche en soins primaires de l’ Université de Montréal (RRSPUM) is the Primary Care (PC) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DFMEM) of our University (Quebec, Canada).

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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

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Although studies have shown that more temporally regular (TR) primary care visits are associated with improved patient outcomes, none have examined what clinic staff can do to encourage greater TR visits. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded using Atlas qualitative data analysis software (Lumivero, LLC).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation tools are considered a promising way to support health providers and older adults in identifying multiple and often complex needs. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of 2-step active opportunistic screening using POC-cHbA1c versus venous HbA1c (vHbA1c) in improving T2DM detection among at-risk primary care patients. They were identified during primary care consultations using consecutive sampling and eligibility screening.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Population studied/Intervention: A case management program (CMP) for people with complex needs was implemented in four primary care clinics of an urban area. Having more consultation time and establishing a relationship of trust with people helped to address their unmet social needs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Integrated Primary Care (IPC) has increased due to increased demand for behavioral health services. However, which approaches are optimal remains unknown. Further, culture in the context of IPC and how cultural context shapes behavioral health processes is understudied.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Increasing access to primary care clinicians who are better able to screen and treat pediatric mental health conditions can improve mental health and reduce unnecessary ED visits. Context: There has been a steady increase in pediatric emergency department (ED) visits for mental health. Results: 20.2%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The primary care practitioners’ (PCP) perceptions of disease given patients’ conditions are reflected in their narrated questions to specialists while using eConsult, an online primary care service.

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China. RESULTS The median length of the 29 video-recorded consultations was 23 minutes 54 seconds. We identified 77 segments focusing on discussions about treatment burden.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Implementing shared decision-making is an international priority in chronic pain care, especially for primary care clinicians. We identified difficult decisions in terms of diagnosis, treatment, daily living, and consultation and stratified results using respondents’ most difficult decision.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Though dementia can be managed in primary care, the complexity of the condition and high prevalence of multimorbidity often require advice from a variety of specialists. Travel to see consultants can be disorienting and difficult for persons living with dementia (PLWD). Context: Dementia affects nearly half a million Canadians.

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Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 3, 2025

When to Seek Help If symptoms persist for 24-48 hours despite these measures, or if you develop signs of mastitis (fever, red/hot breast, or feeling ill), it’s time to seek professional care. Lactation consultants (IBCLCs) or breastfeeding-knowledgeable physicians (Family Medicine, OBGYN, or Pediatricians) can provide tailored support.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A 2021 survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation Vaccine Monitor revealed that 77-84% of patients surveyed would consult a health care provider when deciding whether to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 11, 2023

Whether you're looking for a new primary care family doctor or getting special services, you should have some questions ready. Here are a few questions to ask your family doctor. How Long Have You Been Practicing Medicine? Your primary care physician could have a specialty, such as geriatrics or pediatrics.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. On the drive home, it’s swelling and painful.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Effective Blood Pressure Management Through Efficient Hydration with Imperial Center Family Medicine Consistent, sufficient fluid intake keeps your blood pressure stable, while frequent fluid loss without replenishment causes concerning spikes in readings.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 16, 2025

Effective Blood Pressure Management Through Efficient Hydration with Imperial Center Family Medicine Consistent, sufficient fluid intake keeps your blood pressure stable, while frequent fluid loss without replenishment causes concerning spikes in readings.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Schedule a visit with Vida Family Medicine to get personalized, compassionate care that puts you at the center of the plan. We’re here to support you every step of the way.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Themes arising from the workshops were the need to improve access to primary care and increase community awareness. A panel of Pacific, Maori and clinical advisors were consulted to finalise one intervention for each health issue.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! If you have other questions or comments on these tips, please leave a comment below.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care practices are often the first location a patient seeks treatment for substance use disorder (SUD). Addiction medicine consult services have emerged to help address the shortage in access to SUD treatment. Population Studied Primary care practice teams. per clinic (SD=6.4) at baseline to 8.5 (SD=10.2,

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. The MedSpa at New South We keep patients looking great with a variety of NON-DPC services offered at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Because primary care providers have frequent contact with patients, primary care settings are an ideal site for early detection and secondary prevention for individuals who may be at risk for unhealthy alcohol use or are using alcohol in an unsafe manner.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The following factors were associated with greater likelihood of ‘Care of the Elderly’ certification or focused practice: physician demographics (i.e., female sex, larger community size, graduating from a Canadian medical school, community-level residential instability), primary care practice model (i.e.,

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Plum Health

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Michigan residents have been buzzing about a primary care clinic that’s setting a new standard for healthcare across the state. Whether you’re in Detroit , Corunna , Lansing , Royal Oak , or Van Buren , this clinic is offering comprehensive care that puts patient well-being first. Here’s why everyone is talking about it!

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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