Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: There is a crisis in the primary care workforce in Canada. While approaches have been developed to support primary care health human resource (HHR) planning, most planning is conducted within sector silos and there are few examples that consider a regional approach within an integrated care system.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Research from North America shows that a common reason for high emergency department (ED) use is the inaccessibility of primary care. Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

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The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

At around the same time, a commentary by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan advocated for a more expansive role for the NHSC in the 21st century, including options to practice community-oriented primary care, in urban hospitals, in public health, and in prison and international health settings. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so.

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Logansport Memorial Hospital

JUNE 28, 2024

He is a primary care physician with a passion for providing full-spectrum primary care for his patients. Beginning in August, Dr. Anderson-Been will see patients in LMPN Family Medicine, located on the second floor of Medical Office Building West.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Setting: One private primary care clinic and two clinics of a safety net hospital system that serves inner-city populations with significant socio-economic challenges.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT: The percentage of family physicians (FPs) in Ontario who practice primary care has been decreasing over time as FPs are choosing to focus some or all of their practice in more specialized areas. RESULTS: Overall, the percentage of FPs who did not have primary care as one of their areas of practice increased from 21.9%

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. in Year +1, and in primary visits was 0.7 (-0.6, in Year +1, and for hospitalizations was 1.2 (0.4, in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3, in Year 0 and 1.0 (-0.6,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. Population Studied Medical assistants working in primary care. Interviews were coded for relevant content to identify common themes. Intervention/Instrument Semi-structured interview guide.

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Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area. Across all discharges, 43% had at least one ED visit or hospitalization within 6 months of discharge.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Design and Analysis: Patients were evaluated for 6-month pre/post.

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Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

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Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

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Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Little is known about trends in primary care panel size in the United States, despite it being crucial to the relationships fundamental to primary care’s salutary effects and its importance to workforce planning amidst a national and worsening primary care shortage.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

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Primary Care General Practitioner GP Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas. Population: 143 patients with 2+ hospital admissions or 4+ emergency department (ED) visits for medical indications in 6 months.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The geographic maldistribution of primary care physicians across rural and underserved areas continues to exacerbate inequitable access to health care for populations with the most needs. Results: Among the 15,851 family physicians in this study, 36.1%

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. Family Physicians of St. That makes them the first true Direct Primary Care practice in the entire region. Joseph, P.C.,

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Some will be at the forefront, others will be doing telehealth, or may find themselves back in a hospital situation rather than in the community. By Jill Benson, Discipline of General Practice, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia, jill.benson@adelaide.edu.au

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 1, 2025

TUESDAY, July 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — For young adults, body fat percentage is a better predictor of 15-year mortality risk than body mass index (BMI), according to a study published online June 24 in the Annals of Family Medicine. Mainous III, Ph.D., adults in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JANUARY 12, 2021

Andrew Levy Andrew Levy is a 4th-year medical student at the University of Colorado SOM applying to Family Medicine with interests in Primary Care, Global Health, and Population Health. In his free time, he writes poetry and works to keep his obligatory medical student plants alive.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. The main independent variable was the "timing of screening for GDM" (appropriate or not appropriate). Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: COPD patient self-management plans, including rescue packs (antibiotic and steroid combinations), are effective in reducing respiratory related emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmissions. Setting: Forty-two primary care practices in a regional health system in the Southeastern US.

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Utilities Education Management Healthcare 130

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.

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Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

52.7% (n=2311/4385) were diagnosed in a Hospital / ED setting, 25.2% (1107) within a primary care setting, and 18.1% in an urgent care setting. Results: Between 1/1/2019 and 12/31/2021, 4385 persons were treated for chlamydia and gonorrhea were documented within the MedStar system.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! If you have other questions or comments on these tips, please leave a comment below.

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 29, 2023

Most patients who go to see a primary care doctor are concerned about improving their physical health. They want to live a long life free of chronic health problems that may cause pain, limit their activities, or cause complications that could land them in the hospital.

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