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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. The survey was anonymous both before and after the rotation.

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Understanding Primary Care Inbox Management: A Qualitative Study of Patient Message Prioritization and Inbox Workflow [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Patient messaging to providers has dramatically increased since the pandemic, leading to informatics efforts to categorize messages to facilitate more efficient review. The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians.

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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. A total of 269,411 patients were used for model training.

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I survived hospice: Live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hospice aims to manage a patient’s symptoms as they near end of life. While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area.

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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. Objective: We sought to explore how clinicians viewed the ASCVD risk calculator.

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Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician. These data were used to identify PCP access by census tract measured using an enhanced 2-stage floating catchment method.

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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

In these studies, although being in contact with the patient increases the acceptance of vaccines in healthcare workers, there is no data on the healthcare field where the target population works. [5, In Turkey, the COVID-19 vaccination program is performed both in primary care family medicine units and in hospitals.