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Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Wellstar MCG Health is a 520-bed tertiary hospital with a Family Medicine inpatient service and an attached Family Medicine resident continuity clinic. Population Studied: Inpatients were referred if they were being discharged from the Family Medicine service to home.

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Evaluating the Impact of a Longitudinal Clerkship Lecture on Medical Students Knowledge and Response to Human Trafficking [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education. Objective Assess how a lecture on HT during a 4-week family medicine (FM) clerkship impacts medical student knowledge, skills, and attitudes regarding HT.

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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and analysis: Phase 1) Primary care providers completed a skin lesion identification test before and after brief dermoscopy training, and Phase 2) Diagnostic accuracy and biopsy and referral practices for the year prior to the course and the year following the course were compared.

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Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Medical legal partnerships (MLP) are an effective intervention for social determinants of health, like housing, education, and employment status. Setting or Dataset: Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine; EPIC data; legal records. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Adoption, implementation, and impact of a Diabetes Navigator program based in primary care [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: The Navigator, a diabetes-trained medical scribe, contacted patients by phone to inform them about the Stanford Diabetes Care Program (SDCP) and engaged them in shared decision-making for necessary referrals. Results: We identified 176 patients with recent hemoglobin A1c ≥8%.

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Secondary analysis of the SHaPED trial: shifting away from opioids to simple analgesics for emergency care of low back pain [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: The SHaPED trial used a multifaceted clinician-targeted 4-week intervention to encourage guideline-adherent care that included educational seminars and materials, provision of non-opioid pain management strategies, education on referral to outpatient services and audit and feedback.

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. I believe that as clinicians, educators and supervisors, we are called to guide this shift. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6. Below, I share three reasons why.