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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Population Studied: Inpatients were referred if they were being discharged from the Family Medicine service to home.

Appointment

Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine

Implementation of a novel linkage of primary care electronic medical record data with hospital data in South Eastern Ontario [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Currently, primary care data, community data, and hospital data are not linked in Ontario, resulting in a disconnect in continuity of care. We demonstrated the capacity to implement data-drive QI approaches to support patient care across health care sectors using the novel merged datasets.

Primary Care

Primary Care Electronics Hospital Medical

Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital. Population: Ten resident physicians and six staff physicians.

Electronics

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care

Exploring Trends in Postpartum Hemorrhage with SHRINE Network Aggregated Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data. [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals. We have used repeated annual cross-sectional analyses to extract aggregated EHR counts data that included demographics, PPH risk factors and comorbidities in live births during hospital stays.

Electronics

Electronics Patient-Centered Utilities Hospital

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

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

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services

Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

Utilities

Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP

SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the effects of SGLT-2 inhibitors on level of cardiovascular risk (evaluate by China-PAR) and hospitalization events in patient with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes. Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic.

Hypertension

Hypertension Diabetes Patients Transportation

Clinical outcomes of administering an ePROM of barriers to adherence to ART to people with HIV through a patient portal [Clinical research (other)]

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. Setting: A hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada. Study Design Analysis: 6-month one-arm implementation pilot study.

Clinic

Clinic Patients Electronics Management

Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

million electronic health records in the USA showed a lower risk for suicidal thoughts in those taking semaglutide than in those taking other weight loss medications. Patients with heart failure show less hospital admissions improved symptoms (in correlation to their weight loss). 17 An analysis of 1.8

Diabetes

Diabetes Patients Medical Family Medicine

Feasibility and Acceptability of Using an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure via a Patient Portal in HIV care [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The I-Score is a new electronic patient-reported outcome measure (ePROM) of ART adherence barriers to be used in HIV care. Setting: A large hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada. Context: Adherence to antiretrovirals (ART) is essential for people with HIV (PWH), but many face barriers.

Electronics

Electronics Patients Hospital Clinic

Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

Community

Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics

Evaluation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care: Results from a randomized controlled trial [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For participants in the intervention group, an automatically-generated summary report of ESOGER was placed in their electronic chart prior to consultation. Secondary endpoints were visits to the emergency department and hospitalizations in last 3 months. Results: Participant mean age was 74.7,

Primary Care

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics

Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

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

Patient-Centered Clinic Provider Patients

Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. million members and patients. Outside of work.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT

Prevalence of long-COVID symptoms among non-hospitalized patients in primary care - Part 1 of 3 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Current research on post-COVID-19 conditions, or "long-COVID", has focused on hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and often lacks a comparison group. Research about PCC among non-hospitalized patients is emerging. Population Studied: Primary care patients never hospitalized for COVID-19 infection.

Primary Care

Primary Care Hospital Patients Electronics

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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. Well, because they’re hard on people with dementia and they can be very hard on families, and they’re a form of crisis. Is that right, Soo? Soo 00:32 Thanks.

Screening

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

On the other hand, all of our guests agree that chaplains are often the most vulnerable to being cut from hospital and health system budgets. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. They followed them during the course of their hospital stay. These studies are important. You started off as a physician, right?

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

Trends and Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening Rates in Southeast Michigan [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Electronic medical records (EMR) from an 8-hospital health system in Southeast Michigan. Objective: This study aims to evaluate screening rates and factors influencing LCS in a large healthcare system in Southeast Michigan. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Screening

Screening Insurance Electronics Healthcare

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

Implementation of a novel linkage of primary care electronic medical record data with hospital data in South Eastern Ontario [Big data]

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Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Exploring Trends in Postpartum Hemorrhage with SHRINE Network Aggregated Electronic Health Records (EHR) Data. [Health care disparities]

Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Clinical outcomes of administering an ePROM of barriers to adherence to ART to people with HIV through a patient portal [Clinical research (other)]

Key Facts GPs Should Know About GLP-1 Analogs

Feasibility and Acceptability of Using an Electronic Patient-Reported Outcome Measure via a Patient Portal in HIV care [Research methodology and instrument development]

Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Evaluation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care: Results from a randomized controlled trial [Geriatrics]

Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Prevalence of long-COVID symptoms among non-hospitalized patients in primary care - Part 1 of 3 [COVID-19]

Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

Trends and Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening Rates in Southeast Michigan [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

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