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Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

But how has the specialty of family medicine fared, and what else can be done to extend capacity of the existing primary care workforce? Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S. As our discussion pointed out, though, these proposals have serious disadvantages.

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Advancing Primary Care through a Model Unit for Innovative Practice Enhancement [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument: In its first phase, the MU incorporated three interventions tailored specifically to its context: nurse-led hypertension management, integration of blocks of telehealth consultations into routine clinician schedules, and a pilot of an ambient documentation system to supplant clinician-generated visit notes.

Management

Management Primary Care Telehealth Hypertension

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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. Setting Family medicine clinics in an academic medical center in southcentral Pennsylvania.

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Insights from an Operational Survey within the NNE CO-OP PCBRN [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

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Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Telehealth became an essential tool to assist care delivery in the outpatient primary care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth.

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Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance

Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. 3) ECHO Pain is equitable – through use of telehealth technology, ECHO Pain provides timely education to clinicians practicing in rural, remote, and underserved communities.

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Management Telehealth Education Community

Tobacco Use Screening In Community-Based Primary Care Clinics By Visit Modality During The Covid-19 Pandemic [Smoking cessation]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care delivery was significantly impacted by COVID-19, with rapid deployment of telehealth after the United States’ national public health emergency (PHE) declaration in March 2020. In the years following the PHE, rates of screening for tobacco use decreased, particularly during telehealth visits.

Primary Care

Primary Care Screening Telehealth Community

MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 3, 2025

Medical Assistance Rate Reimbursement – Aligning primary care reimbursement rates under Medical Assistance with Medicare rates. Audio-Only Telehealth – Ensuring audio-only telehealth visits remain a reimbursable option. We are hopeful they will be included in a final agreement.

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Telehealth Specialization Transportation Primary Care

Features of Effective Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health: Primary Care Practice Members Weigh In [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Integrating behavioral health with primary care has may be able to increase access, improve outcomes, and decrease costs. Perspectives from clinicians and staff conducting integration is valuable to understand facilitators and issues in integration behavioral health (IBH) care in primary care.

Primary Care

Primary Care Illness Comprehensive Care Telehealth

Primary Care Perspectives on Access to Specialty Care in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Method Study [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support. Telehealth services are underutilized; incentives for traveling specialists could increase access.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral

Clinician and Staff Experiences with Approaches to Induction of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care practices can increase access to effective care by providing treatment with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) and dependency. Study Design and Analysis Semi-structured interviews from 21 primary care practices. Funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Primary Care

Primary Care Telehealth Medical PCP

Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: We developed and externally validated the FluScoreVax that incorporates vaccination status and is potentially useful in telehealth and primary care settings using this app ( [link] ). The percentage of participants classified as low, moderate, and high risk for influenza was 60.7%, 26.5% in the external validation.

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Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMJ

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Reference: Benson J , Sexton R , Dowrick C , et al, Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic As we face the ongoing global pandemic of COVID-19, doctors, and particularly general practitioners and family doctors (GPs), answer the call to serve in time-pressured, unfamiliar, chaotic, and often-traumatic environments.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 13, 2025

Key Changes: It implements a base year payment rate structure effective January 1, 2026, which will set specific payment rates for various levels of care, including outpatient and residential treatment services, and mandates annual adjustments based on the Medicare Economic Index, beginning January 1, 2027.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Telehealth Management Finance

How can you improve your relationship with food?

Vida Family Medicine

APRIL 4, 2023

As a primary care physician, I see many patients who struggle with their relationship with food. The patients that I see are often highly motivated to take good care of themselves to prevent or control a chronic disease. If you want to improve your health and are struggling with your relationship with food- we can help!

Relationship

Relationship Mental Health Primary Care Physician Diagnose

Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Relationships between patients and clinicians are at the core of primary care values. Setting or Dataset: The Green Center fielded surveys in partnership with the Primary Care Collaborative and 3rd Conversation. Patients indicated full-scope primary care even with telemedicine and social isolation.

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Primary Care Relationship Patients Patient-Centered

Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

Advancing Primary Care through a Model Unit for Innovative Practice Enhancement [Practice management and organization]

Trending Sources

Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Insights from an Operational Survey within the NNE CO-OP PCBRN [Research capacity building]

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Tobacco Use Screening In Community-Based Primary Care Clinics By Visit Modality During The Covid-19 Pandemic [Smoking cessation]

MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Features of Effective Implementation of Integrated Behavioral Health: Primary Care Practice Members Weigh In [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Primary Care Perspectives on Access to Specialty Care in Rural Communities: A Mixed-Method Study [Health care disparities]

Clinician and Staff Experiences with Approaches to Induction of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Hearings and Bills

How can you improve your relationship with food?

Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

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