Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Last year, our Family Medicine Residency Program restructured the Journal Club to incorporate a more resident-driven approach. Study Design and Analysis We conducted a retrospective survey distributed electronically and securely among the graduating class of residents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Data includes secondary data gathered through Epic electronic medical records system as well as primary data collected from physicians, APPs, and staff working in the MU.

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Primary Care Management Telehealth Hypertension 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources. Setting or Dataset: Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine; EPIC data; legal records. Nine focus groups were conducted and recorded, using semi-structured interviews.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective chart search of the electronic medical records of a specific sub-group of patients at UNMC. Number of patients who meet inclusion criteria at Family Medicine Clinics: 6,551 Patients. Setting: Criteria Time Frame: 2013-01-01 to 2023-12-31. are Not Hispanic or Latino and 87.7%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare research involving patient medical data is often delayed by lengthy approval processes. The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine. Cost measures were adjusted to 2022 dollars using seasonally adjusted Personal Consumption Expenditures. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a novel electronically delivered education video in reducing regular OTC NSAID use in high-risk patients (ie. Those who self-identified as regular NSAID users were randomized into either video or control and completed electronic assessments before, immediately after, and 4-weeks after education.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health records from the PRIME Registry, years 2018-2022. The electronic health records are stored in the American Family Cohort, the largest national United States primary care database.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three academic health systems with EPIC and Oracle electronic health records. Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis. Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate implementation of an electronic scoring system (Elders Risk Assessment—ERA) to detect and an adapted risk-factor checklist (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute IllNess in Family Medicine – CERTAIN-FM) to assess older patients at high risk of critical illness in a primary care setting.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health records (EHR) and patient portal systems have resulted in an unrestricted, undefined, and often uncompensated workload for Primary Care providers. Little information exists regarding the volume of work due to electronic portal messaging and if disparities exist among gender, race, age, and specialty of the provider.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record. Intervention/Instrument: eConsult platform and electronic health record. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities. 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is an innovative health data surveillance project that provides public health professionals, healthcare systems, researchers, community organizations, and policy makers with robust and timely summary electronic health record (EHR) information to support health equity and improve health across Minnesota.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Reclaiming Time and Attention Primary care professionals may log more than eleven hours a day, over half of it in the electronic health record (Menchaca, 2025). Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. References Menchaca, J. For AI in Primary Care, Start With the Problem.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of electronic medical data obtained from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN-CPCSSN). Instrument: Secondary data were extracted from de-identified SAPCReN-CPCSSN electronic medical records. serum ferritin below 15 μg/mL).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To promote early management of frailty, we developed an electronic Frailty Index based on deficit accumulation in a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (eFI-CGA) from electronic health records. Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

They addressed mHealth tools in general (n=17), patient portals (n=6), electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures (n=5), or chatbots (n=1), from the perspectives of patient/caregiver users (n=14), clinician users (n=5), or both (n=10). Results: From the 8244 records identified, 201 were selected for full text reading.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Ongoing codesign process to optimize electronic health record (EHR) customizations and support materials for breast cancer survivorship care. We integrated codesign principles into facilitation and learning collaboratives to implement and refine intervention materials and processes. Setting: Large integrated health system.

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Primary Care Referral Electronics Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is a collaboration of Minnesota healthcare systems and state and local public health that helps fill the gap in community health information by providing timely, detailed, and accessible summary electronic health record (EHR) information and reports.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To validate and apply electronic medical record (EMR)-based definitions for mood and anxiety disorders (inc. Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Primary Care Electronics Medical Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The apps can integrate with the EHR to pull, share, and display key patient data to support care planning across disparate systems of care and social services while keeping the person at the center of their care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record. Setting: 104 PHC clinics across Quebec, Canada. Measures: The optimal number of profiles (four) was determined using LCA measures (best model determined by AIC, BIC, and entropy).

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Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Key priorities across all sectors included access to behavioral health, economic mobility, social cohesion, and transportation.

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Community Diabetes Referral Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of PGx in primary care (i.e. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Increased workload associated with electronic visits (eVisits) in primary care could potentially be decreased by the use of artificial intelligence (AI); however, it is unknown whether this use of AI would be acceptable to staff and patients.

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Primary Care Electronics Patients Appointment 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We used the patient portal (Opal) to administer the I-Score, a 7-item electronic patient-reported outcome measure (ePROM) of barriers to ART adherence. Context: Adherence to antiretrovirals (ART) by people with HIV (PWH) is crucial, however, many face obstacles that go undiscussed with health professionals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Measures: Varied by study design; self/carer-report or electronic health records (EHR). Outcome: Analgesic medication or medication for painful conditions, pain and pain-related MCCs, views/experience of pain medication. Results: 21,603 articles identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Dataset: The CPCSSN database contains de-identified patient-level electronic medical record data from 13 primary care research networks across Canada. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description.

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Primary Care Diabetes Finance Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Patients with recent hemoglobin A1c levels of ≥8% were invited to join the Diabetes Navigator program, identified through the electronic health record at two academic primary care clinics.

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Primary Care Diabetes Referral Integrated Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or dataset: Electronic health record data from 25 primary care clinics in 3 FQHCs in Washington and Idaho PBRN from 2012-2017. Population Studied: Average-risk females ages 21-64 with ≥1 medical encounter and ≥1 routine CCS during 2012-2017.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Administrative electronic health record (EHR) datasets offer a low-cost opportunity to investigate influences on knee osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and outcomes such as total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Objective: We assessed adoption, impact on time spent in orders, and clinician perceptions of a comprehensive set of nested order panels (xOrders) for adult primary care.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Utilities Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cross panel strategies where consensus was reached included: (1) educating PC providers on survivorship guidelines, (2) enabling screening reminders, templates, and monitoring alerts in the electronic medical record, (3) educating patients on survivorship and communicating needs with PC, and (4) increasing oncology-PC communications.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument: REDCap survey administered electronically or by phone. Setting: LM Clinic in the SW Virginia safety net. Population Studied Patients who were referred to or attended the LM clinic between 5/1/22 and 5/31/24 (n=575).

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