Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Public health data in the Unites States often report on a limited number of conditions, are unable to identify trends in small geographic regions, or are not timely enough to inform current policy. Objective: To use summary EHR information to support efforts to improve community health and health equity in Minnesota.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Burnout among family medicine residents is widespread, impacting the workforce. As part of the BRIDGE program, the AAFP hosted Project ECHO® (ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) sessions, focusing on resident wellbeing and burnout prevention. Population studied: Residents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Objective: To use an iterative, community-engaged process to inform the development of the publicly-available HTAC dashboard. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recognizes the critical role of family medicine (FM) research in primary care and healthcare systems. Engaging researchers and leveraging evidence are essential for addressing the challenges faced by FM and family physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

income, housing) affect health, there is no standardized tool or approach in Canada for the routine collection of demographic and social information in healthcare settings. Context: Despite evidence that social determinants (e.g. census) that are currently used for policy decisions and to identify health inequities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Access to primary healthcare services is a core lever for reducing health inequalities. Objective: To identify different profiles of access to care and continuity experiences of patients registered at team-based primary healthcare clinics.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For more information on the program or to join, contact Concierge Choice Physicians at (877) 888-5590. About Margaret Greenough, MD Dr. Margaret Greenough is a Family Medicine Specialist in San Luis Obispo, CA with over 10 years of experience in the medical field. For more information, please visit www.ccpmd.com.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The experience of ethnically diverse parents of children with serious illness in the US healthcare system has not been well studied. Study Methods and Analysis: Qualitative community-based participatory action research (CBPAR) study with focus groups and individual interviews.

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Family Medicine Austin

MAY 30, 2025

Family planning is a crucial aspect of healthcare that empowers individuals and families to make informed decisions about their reproductive health. At Family Medicine Austin, we understand the importance of providing comprehensive family planning and birth control services tailored to your unique needs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SDM involves a collaborative process between patients and providers to make informed healthcare choices. Setting: 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health, a large integrated healthcare system. Addressing these inequities is a complex endeavor, with shared decision making (SDM) emerging as a promising strategy.

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Family Medicine Austin

MAY 12, 2025

At Family Medicine Austin, we believe that personalized health insights are the key to proactive and effective healthcare. That’s why we’ve embraced innovative lab testing solutions to provide you with detailed, accurate, and timely information about your well-being.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Transitions of care (TOC) between healthcare settings carry numerous safety hazards and high risk for medication harm, particularly for patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). Inductive thematic analysis identified and catgorized themes within a communication framework.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Because it is National Diabetes Month, we wanted to provide some information that can help you learn about and, if applicable, manage the disease. Want More Information about Diabetes? Contact the Center for Family Medicine At the Center for Family Medicine, we are committed to you and your family’s health.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Identify facilitators and barriers of hospital stability to inform potential policy opportunities in rural Colorado. PubMed search resulted in over 500 articles published in the past 10 years, of which 120 offered relevant information, resulting in an annotated bibliography of 45 articles and pertinent organizational reports.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education. family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to help individuals address their health and social needs wherein a healthcare practitioner refers patients to non-clinal services in the community. Models of SP vary, and the experience of patients across these models is less known. ARC: All (N=17) participants used navigation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To enhance interprofessional collaboration among primary care teams within family physician groups (FMGs) and to optimize care resources along clear and simple care trajectories. One intervention consisted in facilitating discussions to highlight the role of each healthcare professional.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To document the lived experience of patients with LC pain, including how they access and receive healthcare, to improve services for LC pain evaluation and treatment. Demographic characteristics and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pain interference measure were collected via surveys.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset We utilized the 2019 and 2021 National Health Interview Survey data (NHIS), which collects information about health, healthcare access, and health behaviors, including CCS. Also, more Black women reported being informed about the type of CCS they received. population.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Necessary healthcare services to manage chronic pain remain difficult to access in primary care. Context: One in five Canadians lives with chronic pain which significantly affects their daily activities and quality of life.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Combining these datasets in a consolidated data repository could result in an improved understanding of the care journey, support the healthcare needs of Ontario Health Team priority populations, promote continuity of care improvements across sectors, and decrease burden on emergency departments (EDs) and primary care providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As healthcare and social services systems are called on to be more learning, more resilient, more efficient and more in partnership with all stakeholders, it becomes critical to apply shared decision-making (SDM). Trends show increasing cancer incidence in Quebec. To describe our DA coproduction process. Study Design and Analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Organizations want to ensure that patients feel valued, respected, and supported throughout their healthcare journey. Setting and Population: The study took place in an ambulatory family medicine office analyzing satisfaction scores from a family medicine ambulatory clinic.

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Noreta Family Medicine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Vonnegut’s book took me on an entertaining and insightful journey, ranging from very short and hilarious tales of his interactions with his pediatric patients and their parents, to longer chapters where he laments both the disappearance of private practice primary care offices and the loss of physician control in the healthcare system.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context With the goal of advancing health equity, the US healthcare sector has expanded activities to identify and intervene in patients’ experiences of social adversity, sometimes referred to as "social care". Yet, no measure of patients’ experiences with social care has been developed to date.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Finding a great family doctor can be a daunting task given the critical role they play in our health and well-being. A family doctor is often your main healthcare provider tasked with everything from routine check-ups to chronic disease management. Reach out to us at Hitchcock Family Medicine.

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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

However, few studies have evaluated preconsultation tools targeting older adults and healthcare professionals. Study design: Qualitative interviews were conducted with older adults (n=19) and health providers (n=17) in 4 family medicine clinics (2 rural and 2 urban) in Quebec, Canada.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. However, it is unclear whether results would generalize to other healthcare populations.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In Ontario, Canada, more people access PC than any other type of healthcare. If health systems strive to improve patient experience, and PC visits comprise most of the health care delivered in those systems, then the research informing this sector should be oriented to the needs of PC patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Impacts of healthcare sludge on patients have not been well-described. Context: ‘Sludge’ refers to administrative burdens that prevent people from getting what they want or need.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Three boutique clinics in Ontario were identified using publicly available information. The results of this study demonstrates that boutique clinics serve a wealthy subset of the Canadian population and impose high costs through out-of-pocket expenses and payments from the public healthcare system.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People living in precarious socio-economic conditions are at greater risk of developing mental and physical health disorders, and of having complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care from the healthcare, social services, and community networks.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

. ● Structural Stigma – involves institutional policies, practices, and systems that discriminate against those with mental health conditions, such as employment discrimination and barriers to healthcare access. The South Dakota Department of Health offers online information about mental health. Your mental health matters.

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Barton Associates

MAY 29, 2025

Despite projected shortages, the overall job outlook for a doctor in the United States is positive— according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , overall employment of physicians is projected to grow 4% between 2023 and 2033, which is as fast as the average for all occupations, healthcare or otherwise. in April 2025.

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