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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. Additionally, we found a statistically significant reduction in PMPM Kansas Medicaid costs.

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High use of the emergency department among patients in Krakow, Poland: An alternative to seeking primary care? [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed. Results: In 2022, there were 39,851 ED visits made to the hospital by 32,927 patients. median: 6, IQR: 2.0).

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A comparison of children with functional abdominal pain and irritable bowel syndrome in primary care and secondary care [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations. Insight in patient characteristics in both settings might invite to reflect upon referral strategies of general practitioners (GPs) and interpretation of study results from hospital care.

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5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

Disease Diagnosis If a patient visits a hospital with specific symptoms, a primary care doctor diagnoses what they're suffering from. Therefore, if you're feeling unwell, contact Hitchcock Family Medicine today to get started with an appointment. Primary doctors are the first stop for medical care.

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Outcomes associated with timing of screening for gestational diabetes [Women's health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. Exclusion criteria included a pre-pregnancy diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

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Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Patients with an asthma diagnosis aged 7-17. Outcome Measures: Emergency department utilization, hospitalization, steroid prescriptions, and primary care provider (PCP) utilization. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03 to 0.10, p=0.32), and 35% to 28% ([95%]CI -0.08 to 0.24, p=0.28).

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.