Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Objective: Our objective was to improve the TCM clinic no-show rate and thereby improve patient outcomes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A critical shortage of clinicians who specialize in treating patients with OUD exacerbates this issue. While primary care (PC) settings have the potential to bridge this gap in care, many care teams lack the education and training required to effectively manage patients with OUD.

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Primary Care Education Individual Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Research shows that effective patient-clinician communication leads to high quality of care, overall satisfaction, and better patient outcomes. born Latino (6,458), and Foreign-born Latino (12,057) adults with and without diabetes Analysis: Explanatory variables: communication, patient education, and shared decision-making.

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Patients Education Diabetes Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Interprofessional primary care teams are crucial for providing comprehensive care to patients with complex health needs. Objective: Enhance the capacity of interprofessional primary care providers to work collaboratively through online education modules. Few training resources are available to support primary care teams.

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Primary Care Education Provider Comprehensive Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-society approach to health and well-being, providing holistic care to patients across their lifespan. Objective: To engage the PHC community and identify how patient partners can best support primary health care design, delivery, research, and education.

Patients 130

Patients Holistic Care Government Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Sleep medicine education within ACGME-accredited specialties is often limited. This lack of exposure can create gaps in patient care and discourage trainees from specializing. Results Pre-intervention, 50% of residents felt inadequately educated in sleep medicine. Post-intervention, 83% felt adequately educated.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, its adoption has been slower in primary care settings compared to endocrinology practices, resulting in unequal access for patients with diabetes. Implementation of a virtual CGM initiation service can be valuable for enhancing CGM access to primary care patients with diabetes. Setting: Primary care practices in Colorado.

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Primary Care Diabetes Patients Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education. Outcome Measures Trends in knowledge of HT, perceived confidence in caring for patients impacted by HT, and attitudes towards the training over time. Results Across 16 cohorts, 281 students completed the training.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Moral distress has been classified into three groups: 1) patient level factors, 2) team miscommunication or inadequate collaboration, and 3) system-level causes. The most highly rated items were: 1) Moral distress in providing care that does not relieve the patient’s suffering due to limited healthcare services available.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Sexual- and gender-minority (SGM) patients face high rates of discrimination, bias, and gender dysphoria when seeking care, including when seeking contraception. Study Design and Analysis: Targeted needs assessment using a cross-sectional study design.

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Community Patients Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The ability to reach and engage in the care process varies considerably depending on patients’ socio-demographic characteristics which we need to understand to address inequitable access issues. Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record.

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Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Both providers and mothers reported limitations in patient understanding and knowledge. Mothers reported a wide range of provider education efficacy during the prenatal period, including none, poor, and good.

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Provider Patients Healthcare Professional Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care must address the complex needs of patients with multiple chronic conditions, given 40% of patients seen in primary care have behavioral health needs. Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is associated with improved access and engagement in mental health services and mental and physical health patient outcomes.

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Clinic 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Vaidyula and colleagues in Cureus.

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Education Patients Management Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design This study was a systematic review of randomized controlled trials to identify RCTs demonstrating successful interventions that used communication interventions to impact patient outcomes. Additionally, studies with more than one intervention tended to use a mix of counseling and education.

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Provider Patients Utilities Healthcare 130

KevinMD

JUNE 12, 2025

I’ve counseled families through heartbreaking prognoses, navigated complex care plans, and educated patients about conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. I thought I understood what it meant to live with a memory disorder, until my mother became my most challenging, most personal patient.

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Diagnosis Diagnose Education Management 157

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Age, education, and health literacy emerged as key drivers of self-care behavior in individuals with chronic kidney disease. Identifying factors that influence self-care behavior (SCB) is crucial for improving patient outcomes. Identifying factors that influence self-care behavior (SCB) is crucial for improving patient outcomes.

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Patients Education Complication Diagnosis 78

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cultivating critical appraisal and literature synthesis skills is imperative for general practitioners, enabling them to deliver optimal patient care, stay attuned to evolving research paradigms, and actively advance medical knowledge.

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Family Medicine DO Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

ECHO Concussion has a positive impact on clinician self-efficacy, knowledge, and concussion practice management, thereby helping to increase patient access to better care in the acute and chronic stages of concussion. Conclusion Concussion management is complex and ECHO Concussion can be beneficial for frontline clinicians.

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Management Education Illness Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Research training is rate-limiting. Funding opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral training exist in the US, including T32 programs.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction: Reflexivity-based training for healthcare professionals on shared decision-making (SDM) fosters critical thinking, encouraging reflection on one’s personal values while supporting patient needs. Methods: We performed a qualitative descriptive study.

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Healthcare Professional Education Healthcare Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

COVID-19's impact surpasses previous pandemics, disrupting medical education by delaying clinical rotations and necessitating a rapid transition to telemedicine due to isolation and PPE shortages. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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Telemedicine Education Telehealth Mental Health 130

KevinMD

JUNE 12, 2025

For years, I cared for patients as a nurse practitioner—managing chronic disease, guiding them through acute illness, counseling them through the often messy realities of life and health. I loved my work.

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Nurse Practitioner Medical Chronic Disease Relationship 268

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This can potentially compromise their ability to provide optimal patient care. Family physicians' pivotal role in prevention and crisis management exposes them to mental stressors due to the highly demanding circumstances.

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Family Physician Mental Health Family Families 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. I believe that as clinicians, educators and supervisors, we are called to guide this shift. Administrative overload fuels burnout and pushes us away from our patients.

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Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a health professions education model that uses telehealth technology to bridge specialists to community clinicians to disseminate best practices and foster interprofessional collaboration.

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Management Telehealth Education Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, we know little about the views on implementing SDM in practice from the perspective of those who supervise and educate residents. Objective: To explore the views of family physician educators about the implementation of SDM in clinical practice, with a focus on the delivery of preventive health care.

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Family Physician Education Family Families 130

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). Risk factors (i.e.,

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Primary Care Electronics Hospital Medical 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

reduction in the prescription of opioids (OR 0.57, 95% CI 0.38–0.95) without compromising patient outcomes. Context: The SHaPED trial implemented a model of care for low back pain in emergency departments and resulted in a 12.3% non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs-NSAIDs).

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Management Referral Education Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). One proposed reason is the lack of knowledge about PGx among clinicians slowing down the potential for clinical implementation, showing the main barrier to implementation is lack of healthcare professionals’ education.

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Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Outcome Measures: Number of patients engaged, resulting referrals, Navigator time per patient, and hemoglobin A1c measures across 2-years.

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Primary Care Diabetes Referral Integrated Care 130

Mere Mortal MD

MAY 25, 2025

.” This is somewhat organized–as in, we will get an overhead page or text when it’s about to happen–and occurs when a patient has been at the hospital for a very long time. It’s the day when one of these long-term patients is finally walking out the door. Thanks for reading Mere Mortal MD!

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Hospital Illness Patients IT 204

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is limited qualitative research exploring non-recreational prescription medication sharing behaviours from the patient’s perspective. Objective To explore UK patient experiences and beliefs about prescription medication sharing behaviour, alongside their perceptions of the safety of these practices.

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Medical Education Diagnose Patients 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

We must understand how the current policies impact access to care and identify policy-related barriers faced by our patients and families. Relevant educational resources should be disseminated, such as “A Guide for Families Affected by Crisis and Displacement” by Sesame Workshop , available in multiple languages.

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Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients. Setting: Three academic health systems with EPIC and Oracle electronic health records.

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Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

POPULATION STUDIED: Diverse stakeholders (PC clinicians, survivorship experts, policy leaders, oncologists, and patient advocates) were interviewed (n=45). SETTING: A purposive sample of national stakeholders participated in the expert panel and interviews. Local PC stakeholders participated in the second panel.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Colorado Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 9, 2025

Walt Larimore, MD To supplement his column in this month’s Colorado FP, Dr. Walt Larimore has compiled even more information and resources to support family physicians like you to educate your patients and communities about the importance of vaccines. See his article and CME quiz in the latest issue of the magazine.

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Family Physician Family Families Vaccination 130