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Optimizing Medical Legal Partnerships for sustainable public funding through the tele-legal model [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: 1) Test the virtual model of MLP to achieve more favorable economies of scale 2) Develop a policy-informed lexicon for MLP to inform model development, D&I research, and improve data sharing across models to ultimately advance sustainable state-based funding for MLP.

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Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Family medicine and internal medicine specialties had higher reliability than their advanced practice practitioner counterparts. Comprehensiveness can inform opportunities for primary care providers to judiciously perform various services.

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A Change of Mind on MOUD: Impact of Messages to Motivate Expanded Access to Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine. Population Studied: Licensed, actively practicing Internal Medicine and Family Medicine physicians and Non-physician practitioners in Kentucky.

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Barriers to and Facilitators of Participant Engagement in a Multi-level Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes and Food Insecurity [Clinical trial]

Annals of Family Medicine

family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) at an urban academic medical center in the Midwest. Interviews were transcribed and a deductive-dominant approach to thematic analysis was employed in line with a priori process evaluation constructs. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Physicians Perspectives on Race and Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Responses were analyzed using both deductive and inductive approaches to identify primary topics. Setting: Video interviews, audio recorded and transcribed. Results: Five men and five women participated in the study.

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Geriatric Medicine Board Meeting Summary | Spring 2025

ABIM

Upgrades to the ABIM website and Physician Portal for 2025, designed to make it easier for both physicians and the public to find information. Looking at ABIM physicians, 11,374 physicians have been certified in geriatric medicine since it was first offered in 1988, with 4,740 currently maintaining a valid certification.

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019. In 2017, 61,668 (36.0%) patients visited the ER, 44,910 (26.2%) were hospitalized in internal medicine wards, and 13,305 (7.8%) were hospitalized in surgical wards.