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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

Context: Comprehensiveness of care represents an important process measure within the contexts of primary care for core services. These services represent the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs.

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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

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

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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What Is the Difference Between Family and Internal Medicine?

Hitchcock Family Medicine

have 19% lower odds of prematurely dying if they have a primary care provider compared to those who only seek medical specialists for their care. Which Is Better: Internal Medicine or Family Medicine? Based on their specialty, they then complete their training in outpatient and inpatient medical care.

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Potentially Unsafe Low-evidence Treatments: Adam Marks, Laura Taylor, & Jill Schneiderhan

GeriPal

Do elements of care that are often administered to seriously ill patients count? How does integrative medicine fit in with this? Jill Schneiderhan, a family medicine and integrative medicine doc, helps us think through this. Alex 18:40 And two of you are med peds and Jill’s family medicine.

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Pathways to primary care for underserved communities

Common Sense Family Doctor

Several past colleagues in the family medicine department at Georgetown recently published an informative scoping review of specialty disrespect in the medical learning environment. The authors term "primary care yield" as the percentage of physicians who start training in primary care and complete it in primary care.