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Experiences of Canadians without a primary care clinician [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care is the bedrock of an effective healthcare system. More than one-in-five people in Canada have no access to primary care yet little is known about their experiences and preferences. of respondents reported not having a primary care clinician. Results 22.0% vs. 55.3%). vs. 55.3%).

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in clinical practice. Setting: Divisions of Family Medicine and Community Internal Medicine at a large academic medical center in Southeast Minnesota.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Primary Care

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Increasing primary care capacity by adding team members [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

million adults in Canada do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner. Interprofessional team-based care can expand access to primary care, however, the relationship between interprofessional teams and their impact on primary care capacity is not well-understood. Context Over 6.5

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Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Setting: Primary care clinics partnered with an academic health center. nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

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Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care

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Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A total of 122,397 patients and 999 family physicians, 107 nurse practitioners and 411 administrative staff nested into 104 clinics answered the survey. A patient-reported experience survey on primary care. 104 PHC clinics across 14 regions of Quebec, Canada. Population studied. Instrument. Outcomes measures.

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Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Setting: Primary care clinics across Saskatchewan.

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Digitally Mediated Therapeutic Relationships in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Therapeutic relationships have been demonstrated as fundamental to primary care delivery. The rapid adoption of digital technologies since the onset of COVID-19 has led health care systems to consider or adopt a "digital-first" primary care delivery model. 8 virtual care visits were observed.

Primary Care

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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". million people aged 12 and older) were unattached to a regular primary care provider. In 2019, 14.5% of Canadians (approximately 4.6

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Primary Care Clinician Perspectives on Managing Hypertension in Black Patients: Lifestyle Changes and Shared Decision Making [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Hypertension is a common condition seen by primary care clinicians and is more common in Black adults than other racial/ethnic groups. Setting: Two health care systems in New York City. Outcome measures: For the primary analysis, use of the 5’As with Black patients and correlates of interests.

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Nurses perspectives on the characteristics of high-functioning teams in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Considering that effective teamwork develops over time and that the activities of primary care nurses are largely dependent on team functioning, highlighting what best promotes effective teamwork from their perspective could contribute to a better understanding of how to support team-based primary care.

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Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Practice settings included general primary care, senior care, concierge care, urgent care, and employer-based care.

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Poverty screening implementation in a Canadian primary care clinic: acceptability and feasibility for patients and providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study fills a knowledge gap by asking: What is the adherence, acceptability, and feasibility of poverty screening administered by providers to patients of an NB primary care clinic? Joseph’s Primary Care Clinic in Saint John, NB, Canada in 2023. Setting The study was set at St.

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Early Prevention of Critical Illness in Older Adults: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of an Electronic Risk Score and Checklist [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project.

Illness

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits.

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Drowning in Paperwork: The Burden of Administrative Responsibilities in Primary Care [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to help "de-clutter the inbox" and manage referrals. However, often the volume of the work eroded this solution. At the system level, participants underscored the need for compensation for administrative time and funding to increase clinic staff (e.g.

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Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

The Hidden Benefits of Regular Check-ups You Might Be Missing Many residents of Mesa and the surrounding Arizona communities don’t realize that preventive care goes far beyond just “checking the box” for your annual physical. We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all medicine.

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How to get the preventive care you need!

Vida Family Medicine

JANUARY 4, 2022

Preventive care works best when you build a relationship over time with a physician who knows you and your health and can make personalized recommendations. Many traditional clinics have a high turnover of doctors, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants, so it is difficult to see the same doctor more than once.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

6-week Medical Student Externship - Medical Student Externship Report – Molly Mann, MS2 2023 July – August "My externship experience consisted of shadowing Dr. Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. and hear about their programs.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Alex: We are delighted to welcome back to the GeriPal podcast, Katie Fitzgerald Jones, who’s a nurse scientist at the New England Geriatric Research Education and Clinical Center, and a palliative and addiction nurse practitioner at the VA in Boston. Katie, welcome back to GeriPal. Bragging rights. Alex: Yeah.

Illness

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Experiences of Canadians without a primary care clinician [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

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

Trending Sources

Reliability and Validity of a Comprehensiveness of Care Measure in Primary Care, A Case Study of the PRIME Registry [Research methodology and instrument development]

Increasing primary care capacity by adding team members [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Three Practices, Three Stories: best practices and unique approaches to substance use screening in rural primary care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Digitally Mediated Therapeutic Relationships in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Primary Care Clinician Perspectives on Managing Hypertension in Black Patients: Lifestyle Changes and Shared Decision Making [Hypertension]

Nurses perspectives on the characteristics of high-functioning teams in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic [Practice management and organization]

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Poverty screening implementation in a Canadian primary care clinic: acceptability and feasibility for patients and providers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Early Prevention of Critical Illness in Older Adults: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of an Electronic Risk Score and Checklist [Geriatrics]

Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Drowning in Paperwork: The Burden of Administrative Responsibilities in Primary Care [Qualitative research]

Why Regular Check-ups Matter: Preventive Care at Mesa Family Physicians

How to get the preventive care you need!

MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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