Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. AI/AN patients utilize primary care resources at a lower rate than their non-AI/AN counterparts. Population Studied: AI/AN patients residing in the USA.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Utilities Community Preventive Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The DASH is now housed on SharePoint and is utilized weekly to document project progress and share opportunities of funding or professional development. These results correlate to the observational collected data during weekly meetings that suggests 16 LV-PCBRN members are actively engaged in the development and utilization of the DASH.

Medical Student 130

Medical Student Utilities Community Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions The PORTRAIT dissemination project utilized a community-engaged mural to raise awareness about PAD. Context Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD) affects 10-12 million US adults by reducing blood flow to the limbs. Despite its severity, PAD is often underdiagnosed and undertreated, particularly in vulnerable populations.

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Utilities Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: The intervention includes a short survey to determine patients’ needs with respect to transportation, food insecurity, financial difficulty related to utility payments, and housing. Objective: To assess the impact of a question on need for assistance with social risk factors identified through routine screening.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Routine Screenings Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. 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.

Community 130

Community Utilities Relationship Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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GP Hospital Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Clinicians also increased in their awareness of interprofessional rheumatic management, utilizing pharmacy, nursing, occupational therapy, and physiotherapy to their full potential. Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: We have successfully utilized Machine Learning predictive modeling, applied within primary care, to identify patients with hypertension who are at the highest risk of a cardiovascular admission in the future.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Primary Care Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset Utilized data from a large integrated health system. Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs.

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Screening Relationship Insurance Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, virtual visits were utilized when circumstances prevented in-person visits, and patients welcomed a more pro-active approach from the clinic in scheduling virtual visits in those circumstances. Context: Prenatal care can be difficult for patients to accomplish, with frequent visits and time-sensitive health screenings.

Patients 130

Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Data for this investigation were sourced from a community-based approach, utilizing information from CHS, which integrates data from community sources and hospitals. Setting: Community-based study using Clalit Health Services (CHS) data.

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Individual Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis This study utilized data from NHANES 2011-2019 to calculate two ASCVD risk scores for each eligible individual: one using the race-based PCE and the other using the race-agnostic PREVENT equation. The secondary outcome was the average difference in risk scores between the two methods.

Individual 130

Individual Utilities Clinic Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Mixed-methods study utilizing an in-person survey. Objective: To document and analyze Burmese immigrant and refugees’ beliefs about the intersection of spirituality and health, as well as their attitudes towards giving a spiritual history in a primary care setting.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Physicals Appointment Utilities 130

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 10, 2025

This is referred to as NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and is important for maintaining baseline metabolism and utilization of calories. Today we go a bit more in depth on movement and exercise. You Know This - still - it’s a good time to review through the lens of self instead of patient care. Wear a fitness tracker.

Appointment 130

Appointment Physicals IT Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Context: The ASCVD risk calculator includes race as a variable in its risk estimation. However, to appropriately reenvision this calculator, more needs to be known about how clinicians perceive and use it.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design: A qualitative descriptive study design was utilized. The tool was implemented and tested in four university-affiliated family medicine groups in Quebec, Canada from December 2021 to October 2022. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition 130

Oasis Family Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2024

While we have had neurofeedback therapy available at Oasis Family Medicine since 2017, it is always our goal to offer the most up-to-date therapies available. It may be utilized as the primary treatment approach, or as an adjunct to other therapies. So who would benefit from LENS therapy?

Utilities 52

Utilities Diagnose Family Medicine DO 52

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact the Center for Family Medicine. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health Family Medicine DO Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Medical Utilities Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Of the 27 volunteers, 17 completed interviews, revealing six key themes: resources, capability, attitudes and beliefs, systems, utility, and training. These themes, supported by direct quotes from the transcripts, highlighted various subthemes.

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine 130

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Provider Management Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID pandemic disrupted global healthcare, impacting academic medical centers (AMCs) in the United States, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of its effects on healthcare delivery and utilization. Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data.

Utilities 130

Utilities Healthcare Patient-Centered Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

CONCLUSIONS Machine learning has potential utility in helping clinicians screen patients for moderate to severe depression. PURPOSE Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Mental Health Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Survey data from 50 Oregon primary care and emergency department sites Population Studied: 16,403 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries Intervention/Instrument: The CMS Accountable Health Communities study Outcome Measures: Positive screen for one or more HRSN: housing, food, transportation, utilities, safety.

Transportation 130

Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This qualitative research explored how family physicians understand what professionalism means, how it is enacted in their day-to-day practice, and to identify challenges to professionalism. Analysis: All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed utilizing NVivo software following an inductive content analysis approach.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family Patient-Centered 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Here are some ways family physicians can collaborate with health care systems and community organizations to tackle food insecurity within Minnesota: Expand Food Insecurity Screenings: Train staff to use tools like Hunger Vital Signs and integrate food insecurity screenings into routine care. An excerpt follows: 2024-04.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Families Family 52

Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 26, 2025

Limiting these cholesterol-raising oils is just as important as utilizing healthier options in your cooking. How Cooking Oils Impact Cholesterol Before getting into specific oils, it helps to know a little about dietary fats and cholesterol. Cholesterol is a form of fat with a waxy consistency that is found in your blood.

Management 52

Management Screening Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This has led to a proliferation of efforts and interventions aimed at improving access to PC, however, current strategies for effectively measuring access to PC fail to align measurement with the multi-variable components that have come embody PC access. Objective: To identify existing measures that effectively evaluate access to PC.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Insurance Utilities Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized theoretical constructs of salutogenesis – manageability, meaningfulness, and coherence; and resilience. Study Design and Analysis: We used a mixed-method complexity-informed methodology. We employed diverse strategies to solicit respondent participation in clinics, provider networks, community and, social media.

Referral 130

Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To address this knowledge deficit, we conducted a nonrandomized crossover trial utilizing two plant-based diets (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension, or DASH, and Whole Food, Plant-Based, or WFPB) among individuals with insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Hypertension Individual Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument: The study utilized several validated scales, including a modified STARRS instrument for suicidal behavior, healthcare access questions from the CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey, insurance status modified from the American Community Survey, and the Multidimensional scale of Perceived Social Support.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Insurance Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized Amazon Sagemaker Canvas to design our machine learning model. Historically, most fall risk mitigation efforts occur after the first fall. Evidence-based interventions have been aimed at this population. Model design Variables included: blood pressure values, medications, chronic conditions and history of fractures.

Patients 130

Patients Hypertension Primary Care Chronic Condition 130

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Are there, though, populations that it may be helpful in, or should that change with the advent of the new amyloid antibodies? Should it? Who should get it if anyone?

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

DO 40

DO Family Medicine Families Family 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective cohort study that utilized a Cox proportional hazards model to calculate hazard ratios (HRs) for hospital admissions, adjusting for age, sex, and the Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI). Conclusions Polydoctoring was associated with a decrease in hospital admissions for ACSCs.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Insurance Utilities Hospital 130

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Race and the Utilization of Security Responses in a Hospital Setting. Orlando, FL.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Utilities Hospital Internal Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: A phenomenological approach was utilized. Lives Disrupted: Disruptions occurred in participants’ lives; the degree of disruption ranged from inconvenient (difficulty getting groceries) to the dire (unable to be with family member at death). virtual connections with family, friends, groups).

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Utilities Families Family 130