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

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine; EPIC data; legal records. Population Studied: Attributed patients of participating clinics; clinic staff; Colorado state agency staff. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in practice [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and analysis: Phase 1) Primary care providers completed a skin lesion identification test before and after brief dermoscopy training, and Phase 2) Diagnostic accuracy and biopsy and referral practices for the year prior to the course and the year following the course were compared.

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Economic analysis of virtual Medical Legal Partnership model [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine. Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Population Studied: Attributed patients of participating clinics; clinic staff; Colorado state agency staff. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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3 Conditions Internal Medicine Can Treat

Hitchcock Family Medicine

According to the American College of Physicians, a physician who specializes in internal medicine focuses on the treatment of sickness and diseases in adults. Let's look at three of the conditions that can be treated through internal medicine. Internal medicine can help with these types of problems.

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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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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