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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Cervical cancer remains a significant health concern and screening is crucial for early diagnosis. Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs. Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. in screened vs. 1.15

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Electronic Nudge Letters Do Not Improve Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy in CKD

Physician's Weekly

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Neither delivery of electronic nudge letters nor letters to general practice increase uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online June 7 in Circulation. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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Adverse Outcomes Associated With Inhaled Corticosteroid Use in Individuals With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

METHODS We extracted electronic health record data for individuals aged >45 years with COPD from a data repository. The prevalent cohort required a diagnosis of COPD any time during the observation period, and the inception cohort required a diagnosis of COPD made after entry into the database.

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Hepatitis C Micro-elimination Using Patient Navigation In a Regional Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Micro-elimination projects aim to selectively foster diagnosis, treatment and reinfection of high priority demographic groups. A small-scale, peer navigation focused micro-elimination project was launched to facilitate treatment engagement and re-testing for individuals experiencing elevated risk of HCV re-infection.

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Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

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. Nonadherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines remains a concern. of these cases, respectively, were treated.

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Interprofessional primary care performance indicators: a scoping review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Results: Based on the electronic databases (Medline, Embase, CINAHL) search and the reference list of key studies, from 2967 studies, 30 were eligible for the final review. Only 4 indicators directly capture the individual contribution of IPC providers.

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The Healthcare Vision of ChatGPT-4o and Multimodal LLMs

The Medical Futurist

Finally, the arrival of interoperability can connect and harmonise various hospital systems An M-LLM could serve as a central hub that facilitates access to various unimodal AIs used in the hospital, such as radiology software, insurance handling software, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), etc.