Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: With support from the NIH, we are currently deploying Coach McLungsSM across 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health’s Greater Charlotte Region. Setting: 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health, a large integrated healthcare system. Intervention/Instrument: Survey.

Asthma 130

Asthma Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. Setting Studies conducted in the ED, in urgent care centers or in outpatient clinics were included. Population Studies had to include adults (≥ 18 years old) with a clinical diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system. Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area.

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Team-based models of care have become an integral part of the primary care system and is increasingly regarded as a key feature in achieving high-quality primary care by providing integrated, comprehensive, and continuous person-centred care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Electronics Individual Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE We assessed the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a digital cognitive assessment (DCA) for Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) screening into primary care. We also assessed the prevalence of positive screens and measured diagnostic and care outcomes after a positive DCA result.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening Utilities 130

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. Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Population Studied: Patients with an asthma diagnosis aged 7-17.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives Describe perspectives of clinicians and implementation leads on the role of primary care in ADRD early detection. Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program. Population Studied HCPs administering the DCA and BBM tools and team leads responsible for planning and implementation.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

We examined how well chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings adhered to guidelines. 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Recruitment of study participants by general practitioners (GPs) is a general concern in primary care. Poor recruitment leads to extension or discontinuation of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) involving patients.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care GP Patients General Practitioner 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care General Practitioner GP Diagnosis 130

Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Participants Participant data registered in a Dutch practice-based primary care research network (Family Medicine Network [FaMe-Net]). Among them, 2767 (44.9%) had at least 1 contact with their GP for at least 1 symptom diagnosis, and 161 (2.6%) had at least 1 persistent symptom diagnosis.

General Practice 52

General Practice Diagnose Management GP 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care 52

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.

Management 130

Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician Consulting 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Screening 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. Objective(s): This research explores patient navigation between primary care and specialty care to facilitate treatment completion in a health care system.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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: Results: This study had 198 participants.

Screening 130

Screening Diabetes Primary Care Family Physician 130

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.

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This ideally should be detected in primary care, since most specialist follow-up care for breast cancer is discontinued after five years. While echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose LVSD, its limited accessibility in primary care poses challenges. Outcome Measures: Sensitivity and specificity.

General Practitioner 130

General Practitioner Primary Care General Practice Diagnose 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Population: Primary care patients of a national membership-based primary care delivery system, operating in several metropolitan locations in the US. Eligible patients had a diagnosis of MDD, but had not filled out a PHQ9 in the past 2 weeks to 6 months.

Electronics 130

Electronics Patients Mental Health Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Given the prevalence of fall risk, it is not feasible for a primary care practice to implement an evidence-based risk reduction intervention on every patient before they fall. Results: Initial cohort included 264,634 people 75 and older; 18,465 had diagnosis of hypertension and at least one low blood pressure.

Patients 130

Patients Hypertension Primary Care Chronic Condition 130

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. Calibration was excellent.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Telehealth Primary Care Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: CML app is being implemented across 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health, a large integrated healthcare system. Population Studied: English speaking patients ages 7-17 with a diagnosis of asthma without a severe learning disability, blindness, or hearing loss. Intervention/Instrument: Chart review.

Asthma 130

Asthma Chronic Disease Primary Care Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: Determine referral patterns from primary care (PC) to integrated behavioral health (BH) for populations with and without multiple CCs; Identify post-referral treatment initiation patterns for integrated BH among patients with and without CCs. 8% (n= 1,146) were ordered for medical condition management.

Referral 130

Referral Chronic Condition Medical Chronic Disease 130

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! and supplements you are taking including the doses and what you take them for- even better, bring the bottles!

Patients 52

Patients Primary Care Appointment Diagnose 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

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.

Patient-Centered 40

Patient-Centered Clinic Provider Patients 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Intervention/Instrument: Disability status was identified from documented diagnostic codes from January 2018 to December 2019, and COVID-19 diagnosis was captured between April 2020 and December 2022.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Diagnosis Family Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context As the population ages, access and continuity of primary care with the family physician are crucial for managing the complex health needs of persons with dementia. However, there is still a gap in understanding who has access to primary care and who maintains continuity of care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Family Physician Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In primary care, several symptoms of PCC (e.g., Objective: This study assessed the prevalence of long-COVID symptoms in non-hospitalized COVID-19 primary care patients compared to primary care patients not diagnosed with COVID-19. Research about PCC among non-hospitalized patients is emerging.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Hospital Patients Electronics 130

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.

Diagnosis 52

Diagnosis Management Patient-Centered IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most of the population relies on their family doctor for their mental healthcare needs. Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dataset: Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN) database.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Illness Family Doctor 130

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.

Management 123

Management IT Medical Patient-Centered 123

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Hence, we conducted this study to determine the risk perceptions of primary care workers for COVID-19 vaccines and the predictive factors in their willingness to have the COVID-19 vaccine before vaccination, which started on January 14, 2021, in Turkey. COVID-19 diagnosis of self Yes 24 (44.4) 150 (54.3) 126 (45.7) 162 (58.7)

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Our field really lacks specificity in the terms that we use, and I think we really don’t know how chronic cancer pain, let’s say, a few years out from that initial diagnosis differs from, let’s say, chronic low back pain. But alcohol and opioids are up there. Most oncologists would say no.

Illness 137

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 137

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Group 2 was mainly diagnosed in primary care, while Group 3 included more men with better COC and more diagnoses in primary care.

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Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130