Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

million Americans are living with diabetes without a formal diagnosis. Contact the Center for Family Medicine At the Center for Family Medicine, we are committed to you and your family’s health. The post November: National Diabetes Month appeared first on Center for Family Medicine.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 29, 2025

Hematoma Diagnosis Look for sudden pain after nail trauma and sharp-edged color changes that progress distally over time. Keep in mind that acrylic nails are flammable , as an interesting 2022 study Der Beitrag How to Drain a Subungual Hematoma (Evidence-Based) erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Long-term care residents (≥70 years old, systolic BP <135 mm, and no diagnosis of congestive heart failure) in OptimizeBP. Most pharmacists/nurse practitioners used an optional tracking sheet to track their deprescribing and submitted them regularly to the study team.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Cervical cancer remains a significant health concern and screening is crucial for early diagnosis. Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. housing insecurity) affect screening behaviors. Conclusion In an insured population, social needs were not associated with screening in patients 30+ years.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use. It is challenging to study UTI in the outpatient setting, as no case definition exists.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Family physicians in areas with the second quartile of SDI (OR=1.036, 95% CI=0.787 - 1.364), the third quartile of SDI (OR=1.366, 95% CI=1.037 - 1.799), and the fourth quartile of SDI (OR=1.364, 95% CI=1.032 - 1.804) were more likely to enter it as a diagnosis, compared with those in areas with the first quartile of SDI (least disadvantaged).

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Vida Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

These complications can often be avoided or reduced with early diagnosis and management. Early diagnosis and management can help prevent complications and improve your quality of life. If you are seeking a physician experienced in the diagnosis and management of PCOS- please reach out ! What is PCOS? What Causes PCOS?

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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

METHODS We used electronic health records from the PRIME registry to identify patients with diagnosis codes or positive test results for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea from 2018 to 2022. We examined how well chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings adhered to guidelines.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

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. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

If yes, you may need immediate diagnosis and proper treatment. Have you been experiencing prolonged cold-like symptoms? It can be a sign of pneumonia! Pneumonia has flu-like symptoms, so it is often difficult to distinguish. million people visit healthcare centers with pneumonia as their primary.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Expert Advice When you visit your primary doctor , receiving a diagnosis isn't the only service they can provide you. We are here for your medical needs at Hitchcock Family Medicine. The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Children in hospital care were 8-18 years old and had a diagnosis of FAP or IBS based on Rome III criteria. Sixteen children in PC did not have a Rome diagnosis of FAP or IBS (10.5%). Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There was an association between preferred management group and time since diagnosis (<= 2 years vs. > 2 years). Conclusions: Time since diagnosis and health anxiety may affect preferences for hypertension management in Black patients. Context: Nearly half of all US adults have hypertension. 95% CI 0.3,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Black and Latinx women have higher incidence of cervical cancer diagnosis and lower rates of cervical cancer screening than non-Latinx White women. Self-collected high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has been proposed as a method to address these barriers to screening and prevent cervical cancer.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

CONCLUSIONS This study supports integration of app-based hearing screenings into family medical care, as it is compatible with routine consultations. The use of tablet-based applications may assist general practitioners by enhancing the diagnosis of hearing disorders.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To develop and externally validate a simple risk score for influenza diagnosis based only on vaccination history and patient-reported symptoms. Study design and Analysis: Derivation of a risk score in one population and prospective external validation in a second population.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results The median age was 63 years with a median follow-up after breast cancer diagnosis of 10 years. This ideally should be detected in primary care, since most specialist follow-up care for breast cancer is discontinued after five years. Mild LVSD was defined as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 54%. had a LVEF < 54%.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

Ask questions: Ask what the doctor thinks are potential causes of your symptoms (this is called the differential diagnosis) and what they think is most likely. There are many factors that make it a challenge to get answers for unexplained symptoms.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

In our direct primary care setting, we take the time to deep-dive and explain options to our patients so they’re comfortable with a diagnosis and treatment plan that might not require an X-ray. An MRI augments and adds confidence to our clinical diagnosis. Contact your DPC physician immediately. Reach out today.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcomes: Age, gender, duration of abdominal pain symptoms, diagnosis based on Rome IV criteria, history of treatment by a pediatrician, pain severity, somatization scores, school absenteeism in the past three months, pain beliefs, anxiety and depression scores and health-related quality of life.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Initial cohort included 264,634 people 75 and older; 18,465 had diagnosis of hypertension and at least one low blood pressure. Historically, most fall risk mitigation efforts occur after the first fall. Evidence-based interventions have been aimed at this population.

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Are there, though, populations that it may be helpful in, or should that change with the advent of the new amyloid antibodies? Should it? Who should get it if anyone?

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

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.

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen (00:03): This technology allows the clinician to simply look away from the computer, look at the patient, reestablish that humanity in medicine is really what I call it, the joy in medicine, and connect with patient while the machine is documenting in the background. Our guest for this episode is Dr. Khang Nguyen.

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PEMBlog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ll dive into the latest clinical practice guidelines and discuss evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Now, in the pediatric emergency department, the diagnosis of reflux is primarily clinical. Again, otherwise the diagnosis is based on history and physical examination.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To encourage communication about social justice issues including reproductive health and abortion in the family medicine residency setting and to foster an environment of inclusive and open discussion about social justice in medicine. Population Studied: Mayo Clinic family medicine residents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Diagnosis: About 1/3 of the women ended up in the emergency department and received their diagnosis there, others because of encouragement from family and friends to get treated went to get a PAP smear and found advance cervical cancer diagnosed.

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Edge Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Edge Family Medicine , serving Upland, Montclair, and Rancho Cucamonga , offers both telemedicine and in-person visits , ensuring you get the right care when you need it. Why Choose Edge Family Medicine? Healthcare has evolved, and patients now have more choices than ever for medical consultations. Let’s break it down.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied Community-dwelling persons aged 65 and older with a prevalent diagnosis of dementia on March 1st of 2018, 2019, and 2020. Measures Age, sex, time since the dementia diagnosis, comorbidity, mortality, use of home care, social and material deprivation, racialization, and rurality were included. 60.8%, 60.2%, and 58.8%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, it is important to note that long-COVID strongly overlaps with common health symptoms seen in primary care, including fatigue, difficulty sleeping, and headaches, which makes the diagnosis of long-COVID in primary care even more challenging.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

MARCH 16, 2022

We are celebrating some of history’s most influential women in life sciences and their extraordinary achievements and contributions that have saved countless lives and continue to inspire generations of women in medicine to this day. Her identification of the double helix has led to huge advances in the field of genetics and modern medicine.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

Imperial Center Family Medicine healthcare specialists have extensive training in evidence-based prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of lipid disorders. Understanding Your Risk Factors appeared first on Imperial Center Family Medicine. When Should You Get Cholesterol Screening?

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GeriPal

JUNE 16, 2022

We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). I am so excited to be here.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A primary care visit for a mental health concern was defined as any visit with a diagnosis indicating a mental health condition. Study Design and Analysis: An interrupted time series (ITS) analysis was conducted.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Also delighted to welcome, Devon Check, who is a health services and implementation researcher, and assistant professor at the Duke University School of Medicine. Maybe we’ll get to talking about that today.

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GeriPal

MAY 9, 2024

MOC points per podcast in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Alex: And Sammy Winemaker, who’s a palliative care physician and Associate Clinical Professor at McMaster University in the Department of Family Medicine, Division of Palliative Care. Great title.

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BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

METHOD The cross-sectional study was conducted on family physicians and family health staff working in primary care family health centers in Üsküdar district of Istanbul with a population of 520,771 between 25-29 December 2020 [4]. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9)

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