Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

As healthcare professionals we can: ask during history taking what the patient has already searched or generated with AI, clarify when an AI answer is helpful and when a live conversation is safer, and show patients how to write better prompts so they receive accurate, actionable advice. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Dual Focus of Well-being When physicians hear “wellness,” it can evoke frustration toward the healthcare system. A couple of years ago, I partnered with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Longitudinal Certificate Course project. How you view the investment matters.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These factors influence decisions about healthcare and health services. Setting Any context across PCCNs healthcare services utilization. Context A number of patients have complex care needs that arise from interactions among multiple factors, such as multimorbidity, mental health issues, and social vulnerability.

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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. Instruments: The Teams video conferencing platform and the Mentimeter interactive presentation software were used for data collection and recording.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Persons living under the poverty threshold are negatively affected by the gentrification of neighborhoods and the healthcare gentrification. Methods: This scoping review answered the following questions: To what extent has the concept of healthcare gentrification been described in the health literature?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Reducing healthcare costs per capita has focused on reducing Super-utilization using system transformation and care management approaches. Efforts to reduce frequent and multi-dimensional acute care presentations using current care models appear ineffective.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Positive or negative reported effects were not consistently attributed to certain practice characteristics, and yet clinicians emphasized several qualities which were present across clinic settings. Having a diversity of models for healthcare delivery, management, and payment may result in greater resilience during future crises.

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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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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. These factors will be discussed in the presentation. Chi-square and odds ratios were used to detect racial differences by screening type.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results from the 2023 data update will be available for the presentation. 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

Objective: This study aimed to characterize populations with COVID-19 and LCS, describes symptoms, and health care utilization by presenting symptoms. Outcome Measures: Characteristics of patients with COVID-19, LCS symptoms, and healthcare access. Estimates of LCS have relied on medical records which may underestimate true prevalence.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare organizations are increasingly focusing on health equity (HE) and social determinants of health (SDOH). Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. using a thematic summary approach incorporating both inductive and deductive strategies.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

PHMs delivered a short (~15 minute) presentation with PowerPoint slides and handouts, participants were sent a quiz in 1 month, and a refresher presentation was delivered 1 month later. EHR-based practice supports (order panels and smartphrases) were created.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Patients were seen by the BHPs for a wide variety of presenting concerns. Analysis involved descriptive statistics and a qualitative modified rapid matrix approach. Results: 76 patient visits were conducted during the observation period by BHPs.

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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. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St. Joseph has succeeded in doing just that. Joseph, P.C.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Persons aged 18 to 80 presenting to the ED with a minor MSKD (n=78). Implementing management by a PT and an EP would cost the healthcare system an average of $107,335.31 These innovative care models may have the potential to help reduce healthcare costs in the ED. Population Studied. Intervention. 789,717.02).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This presentation explores the work to implement a practice-driven QI project, what resources and education was needed, and what constraints exist for primary care physicians to conduct QI.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Questions were structured to capture the delivery and access dimensions outlined in the Levesque conceptual framework for healthcare access. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Setting: Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This talk describes revisions to their methods for designing and building EHR-based cards that can be replicated in academic healthcare settings and some community clinics. Conclusions EHR-based cards are feasible at most academic healthcare systems but may be harder to use at smaller, community-based clinics with less support of the EHR.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The present study explored univariate and multivariate associations between key correlates of interest and involvement in health-related decisions (main outcome). Study Design and Analysis: Secondary, cross-sectional data analysis of the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS 6, N=6252).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with chronic medical conditions (CCs) and behavioral comorbidities have lower quality of life and increased healthcare expenses. Our work builds a foundation for cost-effective workflows to support patients with multimorbidity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Despite the potential benefits of screening, the barriers and limitations of social needs screening in healthcare settings have received much attention. Results: This presentation shares common paradoxes emerging from the literature on social needs screening in primary care settings.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The highly individualised experience of living with obesity, coupled with the challenge for GPs to deliver healthcare messages in non-stigmatising ways, makes the role of a GP in obesity management complex. This study aimed to explore discussion strategies used in real-world GP-patient consultations when discussing obesity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Full results to be presented at the meeting. Over the last year, the aggregate provider continuity index was 0.53 and the aggregate patient UPC was 0.74.

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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.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 4, 2022

Liz Bayliss is Senior Investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado Institute for Health Research, and Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado. Alex: And we have Ariel Green, who’s a geriatrician and Associate Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Welcome, Liz, to the GeriPal Podcast.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective Describe the demographics, rate of homelessness, rate of MOUD prescriptions, healthcare encounters, and mortality rates of adult patients with a nonfatal opioid overdose (NFOD) at the time of first encounter (t=0) and over the subsequent year (t=0+365 days). We also counted total healthcare encounters and deaths within t=0+365 days.

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The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 14, 2013

The annual budget for the National Institutes of Health , for example, is typically around 100 times that of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). From 2010 AHRQ Annual Conference presentation by Dr. Francis Chesley, Jr. When AHRQ was reauthorized in 1999, the word "policy" was removed from its name. Phillips, Jr.

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Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

However, at Mesa Family Physicians , we believe that preventive healthcare is the cornerstone of long-term wellness for our Mesa, Arizona community. Arizona’s climate and lifestyle present specific health considerations that our Mesa-based medical professionals are specially trained to address.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Dr. Okah is a family medicine clinician and NRSA research fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and she studies the association between the use of race in medical decision-making and beliefs regarding the etiology of disparities in health outcomes. His team found that 1.5%

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Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 7, 2025

This may present as having trouble in school, frequent absences, or falling asleep during class. Teenagers with depression may also withdraw from friends and family, spending more time alone. To be diagnosed with depression, symptoms must be present for at least two weeks.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

JANUARY 9, 2024

Adolescent medicine is a sub-specialty of family medicine and pediatrics, that focuses on the health issues of youths from ages 9 through 23. At times, the healthcare that many of these youths receive begins and ends with their yearly sports physical.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Bystanders are often present at the scene before first responders. Schools in rural communities face unique disadvantages including lack of access to healthcare resources that urban schools may have available. Context Trauma resulting in severe blood loss can be deadly within minutes.

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BMJ

JUNE 1, 2021

By Malte Kohns Vasconcelos, MD MSc on behalf of the authors Reference: Kohns Vasconcelos M , Weil K , Vesterling-Hörner D , et al, Paediatric primary care in Germany during the early COVID-19 pandemic: the calm before the storm, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000919.

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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