Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians. Objective Our goal was to examine how message prioritization (as distinct from categorization) occurs in primary care, and to understand the approaches primary care clinicians deployed for managing their inbox workflows.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensive primary care is the foundation of an effective healthcare system but has been on the decline as more family physicians pursue careers in focused practice. From 1993 to 2022, the proportion of comprehensive primary care physicians decreased from 71.1% in 2021/2022.

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Family Physician Primary Care Physician Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A severe asthma registry in primary care is needed to determine the population prevalence and best practices in the real world. Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

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Asthma Primary Care Primary Care Physician Family Physician 130

Logansport Memorial Hospital

JUNE 28, 2024

Logansport Memorial is pleased to welcome Samuel Anderson-Been, MD to the Logansport Memorial Physician Network. He is a primary care physician with a passion for providing full-spectrum primary care for his patients.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physician shortages are well documented and expected to worsen, particularly in specific regions in the US. Further, racial and ethnic minorities, particularly Black populations, have less access to primary care and worse health outcomes compared to white populations.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

million adopted people and their families in the United States. The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary care physicians (PCPs) rarely receive training about adoptees including their mental health needs and increased suicide risk.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patients Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital.

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Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Generally, we recommend seeing your primary care physician once every three years when you are under 50 and healthy. However, if you are 50 and older, we recommend visiting a primary care physician once. The frequency of routine check-ups will depend on your age, risk factors, and current health status.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models.

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Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care 130

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2024

What is primary care? Part 1 How do I choose a primary care physician? Here are some questions to consider along with a few tips for finding a primary care doctor: 1) How easy is it to get in touch with your doctor and their office? 3) What services does the primary care doctor offer?

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Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Physician Family Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system. Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. 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.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Primary Care Physician 130

Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone. With new weight loss medications hitting the market, more people are asking their doctors for help. From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. But how do you know what is safe and who to trust?

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Diabetes Chronic Condition 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Physician Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Quantitate live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program, determine rates of hospital utilization within 6 months of discharge, and review the discharge planning process including coordination of follow-up with a primary care physician following hospice discharge. metropolitan area.

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Primary Care Physician Utilities PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE We tested for direct and indirect effects that performance-based reimbursement (PBR) in primary care has on perceived individual and organizational quality of care, and the role of illegitimate tasks and moral distress as potential mediators.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Individual Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Although studies have shown that more temporally regular (TR) primary care visits are associated with improved patient outcomes, none have examined what clinic staff can do to encourage greater TR visits. Interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and coded using Atlas qualitative data analysis software (Lumivero, LLC).

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Primary Care Patients Primary Care Physician Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based residency programs (CBRPs), which are defined as Teaching Health Centers (THCs) and programs with Rural Training Track (RTTs), produce physicians that are more likely to practice in rural and other underserved areas. Further, most family medicine residents remain within 50 miles of their residency graduate location.

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Primary Care Physician Community Finance Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In recent years, given significant challenges with accessing primary care physicians in Canada, there has been increased attention towards involving other health care providers, such as rehabilitation professionals, for managing different conditions.

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Primary Care Consulting Physicals Emergency Room 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the approaches general practitioners (GPs) use to respond to the treatment burden faced by people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China.

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Primary Care Physician GP General Practitioner Diabetes 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care physicians regularly implore patients to buy and eat healthy foods. Background. But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods? It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007).

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Patients Primary Care Physician Primary Care IT 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE Much of the literature on team-based primary care has focused on physician productivity, workload, and burnout. Less is known about how team-based care influences patient satisfaction and perceptions of the trade-off between continuity and access.

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PCP PCP Chronic Condition Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Physicians receive little QI training in their formal education and require professional development opportunities to learn necessary QI training and skills.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Education Healthcare 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

JANUARY 19, 2025

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Families Family Board-Certified 52

Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Healthcare Primary Care Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care physicians often feel pressure to rush through the seemingly endless patient care and administrative work we are faced with daily. In residency, I learned how to be efficient, how to juggle multiple things at once, and how to think quickly: all valuable skills.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Relationship Patients 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Screening 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS In a pilot cross-sectional study, we enrolled an initial cohort of 100 consecutive women aged 18-49 years who had a primary care physician and a scheduled echocardiography at Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville) (cohort 1). RESULTS The median age of participants was 38.6 years (quartile 1: 30.3 years, quartile 3: 45.5

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Screening Primary Care Physician Primary Care Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Self-disclosure of mental health issues is very personal and is considered to be outside the scope of the patient-physician relationship. This narrative tells my story as a primary care physician trying to help a patient having anxiety and depression.

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Primary Care Physician Mental Health Primary Care Relationship 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tip 2: Verify Credentials and Experience Ensure that any potential family doctor is board-certified in family medicine. This certification indicates that they have the necessary training and skills to provide comprehensive care. Reach out to us at Hitchcock Family Medicine.

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Family Doctor Families Family Board-Certified 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina between March and April 2022. Responses were analyzed using both deductive and inductive approaches to identify primary topics.

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Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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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Primary Care Physician Internal Medicine Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The geographic maldistribution of primary care physicians across rural and underserved areas continues to exacerbate inequitable access to health care for populations with the most needs. The 2024 American Medical Association (AMA) Physician Masterfile was used to identify current practice location.

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Community Education Family Physician Primary Care Physician 130

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management. Reach out today.

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Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Noreta Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

A Goal Fulfilled I made several goals during my family medicine residency training program, one of which was to publish a research paper. Fast forward to the present day in which I am a practicing Direct Primary Care (DPC) family physician. If I find some partners, perhaps I will be one of them!

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Primary Care Family Medicine DO Family Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Results: 43% of designated providers were from non-primary care specialties. Over the last year, the aggregate provider continuity index was 0.53

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Relationship PCP PCP Patients 130