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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Last year, our Family Medicine Residency Program restructured the Journal Club to incorporate a more resident-driven approach. Setting The project was conducted within a family medicine residency program in the Southwestern United States over the academic year 2023-2024.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In realist evaluation (RE), as in many qualitative approaches, member-checking significantly enhances the credibility of findings. Because RE is relatively novel and continuously evolving, integrating new tools is pivotal in democratizing its practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources. Setting or Dataset: Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine; EPIC data; legal records. Nine focus groups were conducted and recorded, using semi-structured interviews.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

1,2 4 Setting Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) - Southeast Minnesota (SEMN) River Corridor Family Medicine (FM) Department – 40 total prescribers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Chlamydia and gonorrhea are the two most common sexually transmitted infections (STI) in the United States. Since untreated cases can have severe health consequences, non-adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment guidelines (CDC) remains a concern.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design 89 participants had the accuracy of their personal HBPMs assessed by 1) a family physician using our T-Connector Approach and 2) the gold standard method called Dual Observer Auscultation, which involves 2 physicians alternating between the HBPM and a mercury manometer for 9 readings. Population Adults who own a HBPM.

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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. Objective: We assessed adoption, impact on time spent in orders, and clinician perceptions of a comprehensive set of nested order panels (xOrders) for adult primary care.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Utilities Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Utilization of action plans/rescue packs within our health system remains relatively limited. Data was collected from mailed quizzes, EHR utilization of smartphrases, and orders and from insurance claims. Descriptive statistics used for knowledge and process outcome data.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We used information gathered from site visits and team meetings to understand how Compass Rose was being utilized across sites. Setting or Dataset: We used data from Epic on social needs screening and Compass Rose utilization. Of those patients with an episode (i.e.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention/Instrument Multiple interventions utilized, as specified in each study. Almost all included studies utilized interventions were efficacious compared to usual care. Studies utilizing interventions with one-on-one interaction tended to have significant outcomes. Results Eighty-four studies fit inclusion criteria.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The impact of long-standing inadequate access to basic healthcare coupled with generational trauma has contributed to community distrust of western medicine. AI/AN patients utilize primary care resources at a lower rate than their non-AI/AN counterparts. Population Studied: AI/AN patients residing in the USA.

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Primary Care Utilities Community Preventative Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.32) and hospitalizations (aIRR 1.14, 95% CI: 1.03-1.27).

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Primary Care Management Utilities Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Outcome Measures: Emergency department utilization, hospitalization, steroid prescriptions, and primary care provider (PCP) utilization. Design and Analysis: Patients were evaluated for 6-month pre/post. to 0.24, p=0.28).

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Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Relevant primary care nursing activities for CP management remain poorly defined, limiting the full utilization of nurses' competencies and expertise in chronic disease management. Context: Chronic pain stands as a leading cause of disability globally, with patients often reporting inadequate access to primary care.

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Primary Care Management Chronic Disease Management Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: We conducted a qualitative study utilizing the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology - a time-tested, research-based approach for conducting and disseminating health and healthcare experiences.

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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 including decreased utilization of ER services and lower costs for some populations. This effect grows to 23% lower costs for patients 85 or older.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This study utilized harmonized, de-identified, structured EHR data in aggregate counts of patients who meet inclusion and exclusion criteria, from multiple health centers across the United States. Data underwent quality assessment to ensure reliability of subsequent analyses. Phenotypes were defined using ICD-9 and ICD-10 diagnostic codes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Live discharges may be problematic if they lead to high rates of hospice readmissions, high rates of hospital utilization following discharge, or occur after 180 days in hospice. Medicare routinely reviews U.S. claims data to assess patterns of live discharges and may revoke funding for hospice programs with high rates of live discharges.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Utilizing new electronic handgrip dynamometer and accelerometer technologies may allow for additional muscle function attributes to be feasibly measured, which in turn, may help elevate prognostic value and specificity for intervention referral. Interclass correlation coefficients were used for the analyses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The DASH is now housed on SharePoint and is utilized weekly to document project progress and share opportunities of funding or professional development. These results correlate to the observational collected data during weekly meetings that suggests 16 LV-PCBRN members are actively engaged in the development and utilization of the DASH.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To examine utilization of the screening, and prevalence of FI at two time points in a pediatric clinic an urban pediatric practice that has implemented universal FI screening and response. 73% of FI families had a FI ICD-10 code documented (Table 1). 164 unique patients received well-child checks in both 2022 and 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: To link primary care electronic medical record (EMR) data with community and hospital data and to test the utility of the merged dataset through a targeted quality improvement (QI) intervention among high-risk patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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Primary Care Electronics Hospital Medical 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset A pretestposttest survey design was utilized to assess the intervention. Study Design Participants were asked to complete an anonymous and voluntary pretest-posttest survey to describe their experience. The survey had questions based on the likert scale as well as free text responses.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to describe patterns of utilization of a Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP) in Eastern Ontario and evaluate the impact of the program on patient activation, a measure of participants’ involvement in their care, their health behaviors, and their knowledge of the condition.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusion Canadians without a primary care clinician differ from their attached peers by sociodemographic characteristics, walk-in clinic utilization patterns, and preferences for system reform. Their experiences should be considered when designing primary care reforms.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions The PORTRAIT dissemination project utilized a community-engaged mural to raise awareness about PAD. Results PAD awareness scores increased with exposure to dissemination events. A community collaborative mural focused on vascular health. The campaign, shaped by community input, led to increased awareness and engagement.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Feedback from champions was elicited to improve report accuracy and support tool utility. Results: Formative research guided development of: (1) a prototypical EHR report identifying patients with breast cancer histories and (2) EHR-based support tools for symptom assessment for breast cancer follow-up.

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Primary Care Referral Electronics Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. However, given the vast size of our medical center, many community engagement initiatives exist in silos and overlap in community areas creating inefficiency, inconsistency, and redundancy.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In terms of qualitative findings, clinicians were highly satisfied with ECHO Concussion, sharing that the program helped them stay on top of current evidence and better utilize resources and guidelines.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting Any context across PCCNs healthcare services utilization. The results have been integrated during the experts’ consultation to collect data on professional practice and the integration of SDM for PCCNs.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusions: HTAC used collaborative, community-engaged approaches to support the development of a new health data resource that responds to community partners’ needs and promotes dashboard accessibility and utilization by a wide range of health professionals and community members.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Delivery methods varied, with most interventions being face-to-face, while a few utilized digital platforms such as mobile apps and telephone support. Interventions were categorized into Integrated and Coordinated Care, Behavioral and Psychological Interventions, and Physical and Lifestyle Interventions.

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