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Important Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Patients Perspective [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Academic family medicine clinic in Edmonton, Canada. Population Studied: Seven physicians and 15 patients took part in the study. English-speaking patients, ≥ 18 years of age with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes mellitus at least 6 months prior to the study were eligible to participate.

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Factors Associated with Documenting Social Determinants of Health in Electronic Health Records by Family Physicians [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To explore how family physicians document SDOH in EHRs and identify factors influencing this practice Study Design and Analysis: A cross-sectional observational analysis. Conclusions: Socioeconomic aspects of the communities and a practice-level capacity to address SDOH were the biggest predictors of documenting SDOH.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Women with singleton pregnancies who received prenatal care from a family physician MaRNet-FP sentinel between July 1, 2019 and December 31, 2022 and who also delivered within that timeframe were included. Exclusion criteria included a pre-pregnancy diagnosis of type 1 or type 2 diabetes.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

Here’s what to expect: A review of your personal and family medical history Discussion of current medications, allergies, and supplements Review of lifestyle habits such as diet, exercise, alcohol, and tobacco use A basic physical exam: blood pressure, heart rate, weight, etc.

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Migraine headaches: diagnostic and treatment tips

Common Sense Family Doctor

An article on acute migraine headaches in the April 2025 issue of American Family Physician reviewed current treatment strategies for acute migraine headaches, which “account for … 3.6 million primary care visits annually and are the fifth most common reason for emergency department visits” in the United States.

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Prevalence and management of symptom diagnoses in children in general practice

Canadian Family Physician

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. Setting The Netherlands.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Concerns about overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer through prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening motivated the 2018 American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) recommendation against routine screening for prostate cancer. Explaining the AAFP’s position, Drs.