Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The overarching objective of the MU is to enhance the delivery of high-quality care to a broader patient population. 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

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 White or Caucasian.

Internal Medicine 130

Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine. Population Studied: Attributed patients of participating clinics; clinic staff; Colorado state agency staff. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. Our Patients Are Already Using AI Many people now ask their first health question to a chatbot rather than to a clinician. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

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.

Primary Care 130

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

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. Context: Social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact health outcomes more than medical care alone, yet their integration into decision-making is inconsistent.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Electronics Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Central tenets of primary care are essential to the delivery of effective MCC care: person & family-centered, comprehensive, equitable, team-based, collaborative, coordinated and integrated. The apps also collect patient reported data on goals, social needs, and functional status.

Chronic Condition 130

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

Asthma 130

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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.

Illness 130

Illness Electronics Primary Care Nurse Practitioner 130

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

So, which patients should get them first? Patients ask me these questions fairly often, so I know it’s important for GPs to know the key facts. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? What are the true benefits and side effects?

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Patients Medical DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integration of patient reported social risk questionnaires in electronic health records allows for assessment of individual-level SES, but this data is frequently missing. A housing asset-based measure of SES (HOUSES) can provide individual-level SES without need for patient questionnaires. live in rural areas.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Transportation Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Recurrent themes were identified.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Implementation of electronic health record SDOH questionnaires is more common in health care institutions and allows for individual-level assessment of social risk in a primary care setting. Context Social determinants of health (SDOH) such as access to care and economic stability negatively impact colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates.

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Screening Primary Care Relationship Transportation 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

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. Descriptive statistics were calculated for patient sociodemographic characteristics. of these cases, respectively, were treated.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care settings may be an appropriate environment to address social risk factors, however much is not known about the characteristics of patient reported social risk among patients with diabetes in a general primary care setting.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Primary Care Relationship Transportation 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Electronic risk assessment and communication may enhance screening and prevention, but patient perspectives are understudied. Patient coinvestigators and clinicians were involved in all research steps. Context Few affected by hereditary cancer syndromes know their cancer risk.

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Screening Patients Referral Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network.

Community 130

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Provider Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. For instance, in May, I prescribed a diabetic medicine for a patient. The cost was also above $1000 so the patient left the pharmacy empty handed. My patients have a say in their care.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Insurance Primary Care Board-Certified 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Participants identified multilevel barriers and facilitators to addressing parental tobacco use in racially and ethnically minoritized families in primary care. Population Studied: Clinicians, staff, and health system leaders in 5 primary care clinics from one health system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Clinic Preventive Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 87 primary care providers, including family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Instrument: Providers randomly received an electronic medical record (EMR)-embedded survey in approximately 10% of telemedicine visits.

Telemedicine 130

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Khang Nguyen, MD, chief transformation officer of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group, discusses how AI can increase clinicians’ joy in medicine and improve patient outcomes with Chris Grant, chief operating offer and executive vice president of Kaiser Permanente, The Permanente Federation, and host of the Permanente Medicine Podcast.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients IT Medical 52

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

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. What hasn’t been shown, Eric, is that if you apply tools like this, clinical outcomes down the road are better for patients. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. Population Studied: Patients with ≥1 visit between January 2018 and December 2019 and who remained in the cohort until at least May 2020.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Diagnosis Family Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Identify patient, provider, and healthcare process and utilization factors associated with rates of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine. Existing research on secondary acceptance has focused on demographics and initial declination with little evidence around factors associated with increased rates of secondary acceptance.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Family Medicine DO Primary Care 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 6, 2025

The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to cover a wide range of preventive services without patient cost-sharing. Dr. James Martínez, family medicine physician at Community Health Partners, explains: “Preventive care represents one of the most powerful tools we have in medicine.

Preventive Care 100

Preventive Care Preventative Care Appointment Screening 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Methods: In-depth semi-structured interviews using the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology. Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I urge patient’s to come face to face with what they are buying by saving receipts, then highlight the unhealthy foods and calculate $$$ spent. Sleep Better: Many patients state that they experience trouble sleeping. Family Genetics: If you can, ask your loved ones about their medical history (especially parents and siblings).

Primary Care Physician 40

Primary Care Physician Family Medicine DO Appointment 40

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

Today we have a star-studded lineup, including Lexy Torke of Indiana University, who discusses her RCT of a chaplaincy intervention for surrogates of patients in the ICU , published in JPSM and plenary presentation at AAHPM/HPNA. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. These studies are important. LaVera: Yes.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Electronic medical records (EMR) from an 8-hospital health system in Southeast Michigan. Population Studied: Patients 50-80 years old without lung cancer eligible for LCS from April 1, 2021, to December 31, 2023. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Screening 130

Screening Insurance Electronics Healthcare 130

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 9 The availability of electronic health records makes it easier to follow up on patients’ health information for an extended period. The Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (CEBM). Scand J Stat.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40