Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 24, 2024

This year’s event was a testament to the vibrant community of family physicians, medical students, residents, and healthcare professionals dedicated to advancing family medicine in Alabama. Anderson embodies the essence of dedicated medical service, leadership, and advocacy for health equity.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Transitions of care (TOC) between healthcare settings carry numerous safety hazards and high risk for medication harm, particularly for patients with multiple chronic conditions (MCCs). Results: Study participants shared both their experiences related to medication safety, as well as barries to patient-centeredness.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To link primary care electronic medical record (EMR) data with community and hospital data and to test the utility of the merged dataset through a targeted quality improvement (QI) intervention among high-risk patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. What hasn't changed is that our family medicine residents remain excited about health policy and advocacy. Phillips, Jr.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) began to ask programs to report their efforts surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), program directors felt ill prepared to evaluate their programs and measure change. Population Studied: Program directors of ACGME-accredited family medicine residencies.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Burnout among family medicine residents is widespread, impacting the workforce. Study Design and Analysis: Family medicine residency programs applied to participate in the Project ECHO series. Objective: Determine whether the BRIDGE Project ECHO promoted wellbeing and prevented burnout among residents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Three boutique clinics in Ontario were identified using publicly available information. This retrospective population-based cohort study included patients seen by physicians in boutique clinics, Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), and all of Ontario.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: The intervention was piloted in a family medicine clinic affiliated with an academic medical center in the southern United States. Conclusion: These findings suggest that this intervention approach warrants further study, and we are using these findings to inform a second larger pilot study

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Public health data in the Unites States often report on a limited number of conditions, are unable to identify trends in small geographic regions, or are not timely enough to inform current policy. Objective: To use summary EHR information to support efforts to improve community health and health equity in Minnesota.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Parents desired two-way trusting and respectful relationships with medical staff. Effective communication is one key to improving understanding, expressing compassion, and partnering with parents, including quality medical interpretation for low-English proficient parents.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite a joint recommendation in 2003 by the AAMC and CDC that bioterrorism and mass-casualty training be included in the medical school curriculum, few medical schools have incorporated formal disaster training. Only 15% (n=5) received emergency response training outside of residency, with 3% (n=1) during medical school.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed).

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Traylor and colleagues (2025) show that generative‑AI tools can boost health literacy by translating medical jargon into plain language. Within minutes he integrated the latest findings into practical recommendations for the family. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. Annals of Family Medicine , 23(1), 5–6.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument Survey questions focused on socio-demographic information, substance use patterns, health status, use of treatment and harm reduction services, and acceptability of emerging services. 40% (201/499) of participants were reluctant to seek medical care because they use drugs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In addition, new anti-obesity medications (AOMs) have changed the weight management landscape. Study Design and Analysis: Baseline key informant interviews analyzed using rapid qualitative analysis. Setting or Dataset: Interview transcriptions from 80+ interviews conducted with staff or clinicians from 30 primary care practices.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, given the vast size of our medical center, many community engagement initiatives exist in silos and overlap in community areas creating inefficiency, inconsistency, and redundancy. social service, clinics) serving medically underserved populations in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas, USA.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We collected patients’ sociodemographic information at T1, and HIV viral loads at T1 and T3. 10), Habits/Activities (1.8;1.7), Medication (2.1;1.5), and Health (2.0;1.3), but increased for: Social (2.5;2.9) Concerning domains of adherence barriers, mean scores decreased for: Thoughts/Feelings (T1=2.9/10 10 to T3=2.3/10),

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: The Navigator, a diabetes-trained medical scribe, contacted patients by phone to inform them about the Stanford Diabetes Care Program (SDCP) and engaged them in shared decision-making for necessary referrals. Navigator outreach time parallels that of a standard 15-minute clinic visit, on average.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 9, 2024

Demand for new obesity medications like semaglutide (GLP-1 analogs) is high, but availability is low. Yes, one year after stopping the medication, patients regain ½ – ⅔ of their previous weight loss: What are other clinical benefits? 9 The American Academy of Ophthalmology offers more information here 11.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A higher concentration of medication in the body can lead to more side effects such as headaches, dizziness, or tremors. family medicine) and the need for education in this area. Conclusions The role and responsibilities of Family Medicine providers about PGx require further study. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Primary Care Education DO Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record. Setting: 104 PHC clinics across Quebec, Canada. Measures: The optimal number of profiles (four) was determined using LCA measures (best model determined by AIC, BIC, and entropy).

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Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We used information gathered from site visits and team meetings to understand how Compass Rose was being utilized across sites. Objective: The purpose of this study was to study the implementation of the Compass Rose toolset.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Office of the National Coordinator for health information. Dataset: A cohort containing a random sample of 5% of the database population of Quebec provincial administrative databases including demographic data, pharmacy claims data, medical consultations, and hospitalizations was used.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information. Agreement between Proactive and the clinical examination varied by construct, ranging from 47% (Sleep) to 94% (Medication).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Healthcare research involving patient medical data is often delayed by lengthy approval processes. The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The top three themes were 1) establishing workflow norms with different teams, in particular with medical assistants; 2) boundary-setting with patients, other clinicians, and with themselves; and 3) message classification heuristics that allowed clinicians to mentally categorize messages that required follow-up, messages that could be quickly deleted (..)

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A) Clinicians preferred warm-hand offs when referring patients and typically referred medically and socially complex patients to CHWs. Conclusions Our findings will inform future best practices for the implementation of CHW interventions in primary care settings. I) There was a mean of 2.8 CHW encounters and mean engagement of 32.8

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate sociodemographic, medical condition, and medical experience correlates of feeling involved in decisions about health care. 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

Cross panel strategies where consensus was reached included: (1) educating PC providers on survivorship guidelines, (2) enabling screening reminders, templates, and monitoring alerts in the electronic medical record, (3) educating patients on survivorship and communicating needs with PC, and (4) increasing oncology-PC communications.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Lifestyle Medicine (LM) is an evidence-based approach to prevention and treatment of chronic disease by addressing six pillars: physical activity, nutrition, sleep and stress management (recovery), connection, and substance use. There is limited research on implementation of LM in medically underserved communities.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

DESIGN/ANALYSIS: This multisite, pragmatic, stakeholder input-informed, randomized controlled trial (RCT) compared CBT and MBT in opioid-treated CLBP. health-related QoL (Medical Outcomes Study Short Form), and high opioid dose (177±1,041 MME/day), without statistically significant between-group differences at baseline.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: Administrative data from the Optum Labs Data Warehouse 2015-2019 that contains de-identified medical and pharmacy claims and eligibility information for commercial and Medicare Advantage enrollees in the US. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study.

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Primary Care Management Utilities Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings. Conclusions: In-person visits remain the preferred option, not only from a medical standpoint, but also because of the interpersonal interaction that such visits provide, including interdisciplinary care from other team members such as a social worker.

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Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is an urgent need to develop novel methods that accurately identify medication discontinuations in the electronic health record (EHR) to generate evidence to inform deprescribing. Develop and validate a text string search tool to identify medication discontinuation that will be adaptable and scalable across studies and settings.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Lehigh Valley Practice and Community Based Research Network(LV-PCBRN) conducts weekly meetings to engage members in discussion about active and future research, and quality improvement projects conducted by colleagues, residents, and medical students.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use.

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