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: 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

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.

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Patients Holistic Care Government Education 130

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

Context Healthcare sites provide an opportunity to identify and respond to human trafficking (HT). Few medical schools include this topic in their curriculum, and it is not standardized in undergraduate medical education. Results Across 16 cohorts, 281 students completed the training. Of these students, 97.5%

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Medical Student Education Medical Referral 130

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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Family Medicine DO Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Sleep medicine education within ACGME-accredited specialties is often limited. Family medicine residencies typically provide minimal didactic exposure to sleep medicine. This lack of exposure can create gaps in patient care and discourage trainees from specializing. Post-intervention, 83% felt adequately educated.

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Family Medicine DO Education Families 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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is a model in which medical and behavioral health providers work together to provide whole person care, usually in primary care settings. Results: Behavioral health providers were remarkedly consistent in strategies identified. All were social workers. Intervention/Instrument: N/A.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Consulting Illness 130

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. Most respondents preferred to receive the resource in discussion with their healthcare provider and for distribution through a QR code.

Community 130

Community Patients Education Electronics 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

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. Research training is rate-limiting.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 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

Context: Medical legal partnerships (MLP) are an effective intervention for social determinants of health, like housing, education, and employment status. Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023.

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Medical Referral Screening Internal Medicine 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

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.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Mental Health Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Combining these datasets in a consolidated data repository could result in an improved understanding of the care journey, support the healthcare needs of Ontario Health Team priority populations, promote continuity of care improvements across sectors, and decrease burden on emergency departments (EDs) and primary care providers.

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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). Results: There was a 7.1% 3.65), a 1.4%

Management 130

Management Referral Education Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the feasibility of implementing a lifestyle medicine program in a rural Ontario community for patients with chronic diseases. Instrument: Participant and provider progress, satisfaction and feedback were elicited through questionnaires and focus groups. gender, age, race, education, etc.),

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Chronic Disease Community Hypertension Physicals 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Occupational therapists play a central role in supporting patients in the adoption and daily use of pain self-management strategies and in learning how to adapt to their chronic condition to maintain their quality of life.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 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.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Family 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake A recent systematic review provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and indicates that multi-component interventions are more effective than single-component interventions.

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Vaccination Healthcare Professional Integrated Care Healthcare 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before. The CCP Hybrid Choice program is unique in that it offers patients the choice to join, or to remain in the traditional practice, as before. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Board-Certified Internal Medicine Specialization Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. Targeted public health communication is also necessary to inform patients about various CCS types.

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Screening Utilities Patient-Centered Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Currently, only 43% of doctors of osteopathic medicine (DOs) nationwide offer osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT), with half of them providing OMT to ≤5% of their patients. Objective: This study investigates provider attitudes toward OMT and identifies barriers to referrals to address the unmet patient demand.

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Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Provider Management Referral 130

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Two decades later, there is a widespread consensus that the U.S.

Family Medicine 130

Family Medicine DO Family Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In 2015, there was a noted shortage of community-based service-learning opportunities for residents with the barriers listed as lack of access, underestimation of educational benefit, and time limitations. Community stakeholders from the Children’s Museum also provided qualitative feedback.

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Community Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Population Studied: Purposive sample of care team members (eg, physicians, social workers, diabetes educators, dietitians, community health workers).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

Just like in the case of other medical specialties , disruptive innovations will have a huge impact on how dentistry will be practiced and how patients will take care of themselves in the future. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes. How about having a teledentist consultation?

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Patients Treatment Plan Healthcare Medical Specialty 126

Barton Associates

JUNE 5, 2025

Firsthand Impact On Underserved Communities Locum tenens provided Laurence with exposure to communities that were significantly different from the patient population he served at his private practice. Eighty percent of the patients at the facility relied on Medicaid, highlighting their lower income and educational status.

Private Practice 52

Private Practice Provider Education Community 52

The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 9, 2021

[link] Summary In this special episode of the Antiracism in Medicine Series, originally recorded for the 2021 Society of General Internal Medicine Annual Meeting, the CPSolvers Antiracism team discusses what must be done to make medical education more antiracist. board examinations and mandated competencies).

Education 52

Education Medical Community Patient-Centered 52

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

In fact, personally, six months later, I started transitioning to a different job, the one I now work full-time in, doing housecalls and virtual visits for older and disabled patients. Medicare patients on a fixed income need to use their insurance if they still want to eat and heat their homes. Same thing for most people on Medicaid.

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Primary Care Insurance Screening Diagnose 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: We offered educational videos aligned with key determinants of behavior change and assessed their impact on attitudes and intention to explore MOUD. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Patient-Centered Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Since health care is collaboratively practiced, strategies to combat misinformation are most effective when delivered by interprofessional(IP) teams that provide congruent messaging. Results: Forty students participated (20 medical and pharmacy).

Education 130

Education Utilities Relationship Medical 130