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Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 13 urban and rural primary care practices located across Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida. Setting or Dataset: Secondary data on social needs screening and referral generated through Epic.

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Primary Care Referral Routine Screenings Patients

Compass Rose for Generating Community-based Referrals via Epic: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Three sites, representing 13 urban and rural primary care practices in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida participated in the Compass Rose pilot. The most common type of support requested related to transportation needs (42%), followed by assistance related to food insecurity (25%), utilities (12%), and housing (9%).

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Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. family medicine, general internal medicine, endocrinology) affiliated with an academic medical center serving a diverse population in a mid-western metropolitan area.

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider

MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

JUNE 3, 2025

These include health care, jobs and labor, K-12 education, energy, higher education, taxes, transportation and bonding. Sticking points remaining include reinsurance, paid family and medical leave and whether undocumented residents can qualify for MinnesotaCare. We are hopeful they will be included in a final agreement.

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Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Population studied/Intervention: A case management program (CMP) for people with complex needs was implemented in four primary care clinics of an urban area. However, partnerships between primary care clinics and community-based organizations would deserve consideration in further research.

Integrated Care

Integrated Care Primary Care Management Healthcare

Relationship between Social Risks and Diabetes Metrics in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care settings may be an appropriate environment to address social risk factors, however much is not known about the characteristics of patient reported social risk among patients with diabetes in a general primary care setting. Context Type 2 diabetes impacts 11.3%

Diabetes

Diabetes Primary Care Relationship Transportation

Relationship between Social Risks and Colorectal Cancer Screening/Surveillance in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Implementation of electronic health record SDOH questionnaires is more common in health care institutions and allows for individual-level assessment of social risk in a primary care setting. Significant differences may exist among screening and surveillance populations.

Screening

Screening Primary Care Relationship Transportation

Association between patient reported social risks and HOUSES index: A rural-urban comparison [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

vs 3.4%, transportation risk 3.3% Conclusions SES as measured by HOUSES index is the predominant driver of patient-reported social risk among both urban and rural populations in this primary care population. Further evaluation is needed to apply use of social risk questionnaires and HOUSES index in primary care settings.

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Primary Care Patients Transportation Electronics

Transitions to non-driving: Internal factors that influence coping in older drivers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care clinicians can support older drivers in decisions about driving by prioritizing emotional wellbeing and out-of-home mobility through the transition to non-driving. Outcome Measure: Self-reported use of any alternative transportation in the past three months (e.g. at follow up intervals (6, 12, 18, and 24 months).

Transportation

Transportation Primary Care Families Family

Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Health-related social needs (HRSN), such as housing, food, and transportation, play a major role in overall patient health and well-being. The Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic amplified HRSN disparities, adding stress to social support systems.

Transportation

Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care

What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blood pressure is the pressure of blood “pushing against the walls of your arteries” As blood rushes from your heart to other organs, it helps to replenish nutrients and transport oxygen. If you have any further questions or concerns, please talk with your primary care provider at your next appointment.

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Hypertension Family Medicine DO Complication

How to Manage Prediabetes with Food (What Actually Works)

Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 26, 2025

At Vida Family Medicine, I’ve helped hundreds of patients improve their blood sugar without extreme dieting or cutting out the foods they love. Its job is to transport sugar from your bloodstream to the cells that need it—like your brain, muscles, or liver. Small, sustainable changes that work with your body—not against it.

Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 27, 2025

Many of us know where our meals come from, have sufficient clothing, enjoy roofs over our heads, access heating and air conditioning, use reliable transportation, and receive effective medications. Tips to Manage Anxiety If anxieties disable your daily life, discuss the situation with your direct primary care doctor.

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Primary Cares Most Pressing Needs to Address Opioid Use Disorder [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care practices are frequently the first and sometimes the only healthcare setting where patients with OUD seek care, and practices need support with resources and training in how to best treat this growing population. Population Studied: 130 primary care clinic staff from 27 practices across the US.

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Primary Care Transportation Family Physician Education

Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

About 90% were either currently or formerly undocumented, 2/3 spoke Spanish, 2/3 made <$50,000 annually, and 1/3 reported inadequate transportation. Cancer Screening: Challenges with making appointments and getting PAP Smears due to time, employment, transportation, and lack of established primary care provider.

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Diagnosis Screening Transportation Diagnose

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

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Jessie: And I mean, this is not what we’re seeing in terms of take a substance use disorder history is… Whatever our backgrounds, internists, family medicine, whatever our background brought us to hospice and palliative medicine, this is med school level substance use disorder history. Most oncologists would say no.

Illness

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

And I was interviewing candidates for our clinical fellowship and interviewed Alexis, who had been like family medicine doc before, done all kinds of cool things. Suresh was a barge captain, a dangerous and thrilling profession that led him to transport goods across international waters. And she did have a primary care doctor.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination

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Risks and Needs: Lessons Learned from Assessing Patients Willingness to Receive Help for Social Risks in Primary Care [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Compass Rose for Generating Community-based Referrals via Epic: Best Practices and Lessons Learned [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Trending Sources

Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

MN Legislative Session 2025: MAFP Priorities Remain in Play

Integrated care for adults with complex needs: opportunities of case management in primary care to improve equity [Health care disparities]

Relationship between Social Risks and Diabetes Metrics in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Relationship between Social Risks and Colorectal Cancer Screening/Surveillance in a Large US Health System [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Association between patient reported social risks and HOUSES index: A rural-urban comparison [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Transitions to non-driving: Internal factors that influence coping in older drivers [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Health-Related Social Needs Increase and Persist following Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

What to know about High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

How to Manage Prediabetes with Food (What Actually Works)

Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Primary Cares Most Pressing Needs to Address Opioid Use Disorder [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Middle to Older Age Latinas Experiences Across the Cervical Cancer Continuum: Screening, Diagnosis, Treatment and Impact [Health care disparities]

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

Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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