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

The Health Policy Exchange

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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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Optimizing continuity of care improves care quality, outcomes, and costs. Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Female patients had lower rates of NS, but higher rates of SDC. for CA, 0.85

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Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Setting: Primary care clinics across Saskatchewan.

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Exploring the educational needs and preferences of physicians in pharmacogenomics in primary care practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of PGx in primary care (i.e. family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Exploring Medical Trainees Perspectives on Narrative Medicine Education and Narrative Humility [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Western values of heroism and individualistic empowerment exert significant influence over how we make meaning out of patient stories. Currently, the field of narrative-based medicine (NBM) lacks research that examines the potential harms of using dominant Western narrative forms to represent patients’ lived experiences.

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Should We Screen for Atrial Fibrillation? ESC Says Yes (2024), Evidence Says…?

Family Medicine Initiative

ACC/AHA/ACCP/HRS Guideline (2023): “It is not yet established that patients at high risk of developing AF by a validated risk score benefit from screening.” Conclusion: Most guidelines do not recommend atrial fibrillation screening for asymptomatic, older patients. erschien zuerst auf Family Medicine Initiative.

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Prolotherapy vs epidural steroid injections for lumbar pain radiating to the leg: Results of a randomized controlled trial [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

CONTEXT Chronic low back pain referred to the leg (CLBP-L) is common in primary care, debilitating, and expensive. Routine care includes epidural steroid injection (ESI), the effectiveness of which is often limited. There were no adverse events. 001; 95% CI [4.0-18.5]) 18.5]) and 12 (16±20 vs 8±19 points; p=.04;