Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physician shortages are well documented and expected to worsen, particularly in specific regions in the US. Further, racial and ethnic minorities, particularly Black populations, have less access to primary care and worse health outcomes compared to white populations.

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Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

million adopted people and their families in the United States. The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary care physicians (PCPs) rarely receive training about adoptees including their mental health needs and increased suicide risk.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patients Mental Health 130

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Generally, we recommend seeing your primary care physician once every three years when you are under 50 and healthy. However, if you are 50 and older, we recommend visiting a primary care physician once. The frequency of routine check-ups will depend on your age, risk factors, and current health status.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians. Objective Our goal was to examine how message prioritization (as distinct from categorization) occurs in primary care, and to understand the approaches primary care clinicians deployed for managing their inbox workflows.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

of those patients have 1-3 primary care visits per year. Population Studied: LVHN has 107,851 adult out-patients with hypertension, and 66.4%

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Hypertension Primary Care Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care physicians often help patients with mental health concerns, but little is known about patients’ views of addressing their mental health needs within the primary care setting.

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Mental Health Primary Care Patients Community 130

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. In Round 4, panelists categorized these criteria as core, desired or optional data elements.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based residency programs (CBRPs), which are defined as Teaching Health Centers (THCs) and programs with Rural Training Track (RTTs), produce physicians that are more likely to practice in rural and other underserved areas. Further, most family medicine residents remain within 50 miles of their residency graduate location.

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Primary Care Physician Community Finance Primary Care 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

In 2008, a Society of Teachers of Family Medicine consensus statement classified colonoscopy as a core procedure that family medicine residents should not only be exposed to but also “have the opportunity to train to independent performance.”

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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

Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models. This study offers insight into the practice patterns of boutique clinic primary care physicians, as well as the estimated public costs of this business model in Ontario.

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Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone. With new weight loss medications hitting the market, more people are asking their doctors for help. From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. But how do you know what is safe and who to trust?

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Diabetes Chronic Condition 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Physician Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Quantitate live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program, determine rates of hospital utilization within 6 months of discharge, and review the discharge planning process including coordination of follow-up with a primary care physician following hospice discharge. metropolitan area.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Less is known about how team-based care influences patient satisfaction and perceptions of the trade-off between continuity and access. This study assessed the preferences of family medicine patients for seeing their primary care physician (PCP) vs other team clinicians based on visit type and wait time.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tip 2: Verify Credentials and Experience Ensure that any potential family doctor is board-certified in family medicine. This certification indicates that they have the necessary training and skills to provide comprehensive care. Reach out to us at Hitchcock Family Medicine.

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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. Have a good week! Read My Latest News!

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina between March and April 2022. Responses were analyzed using both deductive and inductive approaches to identify primary topics.

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Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina (recruited via purposive, snowball, and convenience sampling) between March and April 2022. Objective: We sought to explore how clinicians viewed the ASCVD risk calculator.

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Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

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. The 2024 American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile was used to identify current practice location.

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Community Education Family Physician Primary Care Physician 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Screening 52

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the approaches general practitioners (GPs) use to respond to the treatment burden faced by people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China.

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Primary Care Physician GP General Practitioner Diabetes 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care physicians regularly implore patients to buy and eat healthy foods. Background. But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods? It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007).

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Patients Primary Care Physician Primary Care IT 130

Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

A Goal Fulfilled I made several goals during my family medicine residency training program, one of which was to publish a research paper. I was given the opportunity to work with a few family medicine residents, who were interested in doing research on DPC and burnout. Have a good week!

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Primary Care Family Medicine DO Family Physician 52

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2024

What is primary care? Part 1 How do I choose a primary care physician? Here are some questions to consider along with a few tips for finding a primary care doctor: 1) How easy is it to get in touch with your doctor and their office? Choosing a doctor can be difficult! Read My Latest News!

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 11, 2023

Your primary care physician could have a specialty, such as geriatrics or pediatrics. If you're looking for special services, such as prenatal care or a specialty exam, you should ask if the doctor has any specialties. Taking the time to ask questions and being informed is key when choosing a new family doctor.

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Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They can provide essential medical care, help you coordinate ongoing treatments, and serve as important support throughout your life. According to Healthcare IT News, however, less than 68% of Millennials have a primary care physician.

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Families Family Primary Care Physician Chronic Condition 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care physicians often feel pressure to rush through the seemingly endless patient care and administrative work we are faced with daily. In residency, I learned how to be efficient, how to juggle multiple things at once, and how to think quickly: all valuable skills.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Relationship Patients 130

Noreta Family Medicine

JANUARY 6, 2025

It’s hard to know if these medicines are right for you based on TikTok reviews or TV commercials. If you are in the Columbia, SC area and in need of a new primary care physician, Noreta Family Medicine is accepting new patients! We are a Direct Primary Care (DPC) office. Read My Latest News!

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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE We tested for direct and indirect effects that performance-based reimbursement (PBR) in primary care has on perceived individual and organizational quality of care, and the role of illegitimate tasks and moral distress as potential mediators. Performance-based reimbursement was measured using a single item.

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Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. Reach out today.

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Vida Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

At Vida Family Medicine, we take our time with patients to discuss any recommended treatment plans and strive to make sure all questions are answered so that patients can feel confident in their choices. If you are looking for a new primary care physician- visit our website to learn more about becoming a patient!

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Primary care medical and residency faculty will learn the principles of mental health care via a train-the-trainer approach.

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Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Self-disclosure of mental health issues is very personal and is considered to be outside the scope of the patient-physician relationship. This narrative tells my story as a primary care physician trying to help a patient having anxiety and depression.

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Primary Care Physician Mental Health Primary Care Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS In a pilot cross-sectional study, we enrolled an initial cohort of 100 consecutive women aged 18-49 years who had a primary care physician and a scheduled echocardiography at Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville) (cohort 1).

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

There are a lot of things to comment on in this video, so I’m going to take a few of the examples of healthcare red tape that I identified with as a primary care physician and highlight them below. Let’s start with the scene where Kyle and friends walk into an office to try to get his friend’s medicine paid for.

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