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Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Population Studied: Inpatients were referred if they were being discharged from the Family Medicine service to home.

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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Population Studied: CUSOM PCPs. Population Studied: CUSOM PCPs. Outcome Measures: The number of eConsults by PCP and type of eConsult sent.

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I survived hospice: Live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

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 follow-up after Emergency Department discharge for patients with chest pain in Ontario: a scoping review [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

In Ontario, MD follow-up after ED discharge for chest pain is mostly provided by primary care physicians (PCPs) and sometimes cardiologists. Objective: We explored factors associated with PCP follow-up for patients discharged from Ontario EDs with non-life-threatening chest pain. Setting: Ontario, Canada.