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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Study Design A behavioral health curriculum was designed for second year residents.

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Using Machine Learning to advance primary care: an example of predictive modeling of hypertension risk to impact outcomes [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future. of those patients have 1-3 primary care visits per year.

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Physicians Perspectives on the Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator. [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina (recruited via purposive, snowball, and convenience sampling) between March and April 2022. Context: The ASCVD risk calculator includes race as a variable in its risk estimation.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

METHOD The cross-sectional study was conducted on family physicians and family health staff working in primary care family health centers in Üsküdar district of Istanbul with a population of 520,771 between 25-29 December 2020 [4]. Available: [link] Hostetter J, Schwarz N, Klug, M, Wynne J, Basson MD.