Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Neither delivery of electronic nudge letters nor letters to general practice increase uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online June 7 in Circulation. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

To provide a comprehensive and internationally standardised Cornea and Ocular Surface Disease (C&OSD) dataset for use in electronic health records (EHRs). The post International corneal and ocular surface disease dataset for electronic health records. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a novel electronically delivered education video in reducing regular OTC NSAID use in high-risk patients (ie. Those who self-identified as regular NSAID users were randomized into either video or control and completed electronic assessments before, immediately after, and 4-weeks after education.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health records from the PRIME Registry, years 2018-2022. The electronic health records are stored in the American Family Cohort, the largest national United States primary care database. Outcome Measures: The primary outcome was the first date of CDC-recommended medication administered within 30-days.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health records (EHR) and patient portal systems have resulted in an unrestricted, undefined, and often uncompensated workload for Primary Care providers. Little information exists regarding the volume of work due to electronic portal messaging and if disparities exist among gender, race, age, and specialty of the provider.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three academic health systems with EPIC and Oracle electronic health records. Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis. Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record. Intervention/Instrument: eConsult platform and electronic health record. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

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Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is an innovative health data surveillance project that provides public health professionals, healthcare systems, researchers, community organizations, and policy makers with robust and timely summary electronic health record (EHR) information to support health equity and improve health across Minnesota.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Retrospective analysis of electronic medical data obtained from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN-CPCSSN). Instrument: Secondary data were extracted from de-identified SAPCReN-CPCSSN electronic medical records. serum ferritin below 15 μg/mL).

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Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Increased workload associated with electronic visits (eVisits) in primary care could potentially be decreased by the use of artificial intelligence (AI); however, it is unknown whether this use of AI would be acceptable to staff and patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To promote early management of frailty, we developed an electronic Frailty Index based on deficit accumulation in a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (eFI-CGA) from electronic health records. Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities. Context: Social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly impact health outcomes more than medical care alone, yet their integration into decision-making is inconsistent.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To validate and apply electronic medical record (EMR)-based definitions for mood and anxiety disorders (inc. Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate implementation of an electronic scoring system (Elders Risk Assessment—ERA) to detect and an adapted risk-factor checklist (Checklist for Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute IllNess in Family Medicine – CERTAIN-FM) to assess older patients at high risk of critical illness in a primary care setting.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Ongoing codesign process to optimize electronic health record (EHR) customizations and support materials for breast cancer survivorship care. We integrated codesign principles into facilitation and learning collaboratives to implement and refine intervention materials and processes. Setting: Large integrated health system.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is a collaboration of Minnesota healthcare systems and state and local public health that helps fill the gap in community health information by providing timely, detailed, and accessible summary electronic health record (EHR) information and reports.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

They addressed mHealth tools in general (n=17), patient portals (n=6), electronic Patient Reported Outcome Measures (n=5), or chatbots (n=1), from the perspectives of patient/caregiver users (n=14), clinician users (n=5), or both (n=10). Results: From the 8244 records identified, 201 were selected for full text reading.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis Retrospective, longitudinal study using electronic health records. 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

The apps can integrate with the EHR to pull, share, and display key patient data to support care planning across disparate systems of care and social services while keeping the person at the center of their care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record. Setting: 104 PHC clinics across Quebec, Canada. Measures: The optimal number of profiles (four) was determined using LCA measures (best model determined by AIC, BIC, and entropy).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: Key priorities across all sectors included access to behavioral health, economic mobility, social cohesion, and transportation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Data includes secondary data gathered through Epic electronic medical records system as well as primary data collected from physicians, APPs, and staff working in the MU.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Researchers at MedStar Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the University of Utah found electronic health record (EHR) vendor misconduct may have led to widespread use of suboptimal products for more than 70,000 clinicians across the country, as published today in JAMA Health Forum. Six EHR vendors were involved in settlements with U.S.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Descriptive analysis utilized primary legal record and secondary electronic health record sources. Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach. Nine focus groups were conducted and recorded, using semi-structured interviews.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Measures: Varied by study design; self/carer-report or electronic health records (EHR). Outcome: Analgesic medication or medication for painful conditions, pain and pain-related MCCs, views/experience of pain medication. Results: 21,603 articles identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting & Dataset: The CPCSSN database contains de-identified patient-level electronic medical record data from 13 primary care research networks across Canada. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Patients with recent hemoglobin A1c levels of ≥8% were invited to join the Diabetes Navigator program, identified through the electronic health record at two academic primary care clinics.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The I-Score is a new electronic patient-reported outcome measure (ePROM) of ART adherence barriers to be used in HIV care. Context: Adherence to antiretrovirals (ART) is essential for people with HIV (PWH), but many face barriers. Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of administering the I-Score on a patient portal.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We used the patient portal (Opal) to administer the I-Score, a 7-item electronic patient-reported outcome measure (ePROM) of barriers to ART adherence. Context: Adherence to antiretrovirals (ART) by people with HIV (PWH) is crucial, however, many face obstacles that go undiscussed with health professionals.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cross panel strategies where consensus was reached included: (1) educating PC providers on survivorship guidelines, (2) enabling screening reminders, templates, and monitoring alerts in the electronic medical record, (3) educating patients on survivorship and communicating needs with PC, and (4) increasing oncology-PC communications.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Administrative electronic health record (EHR) datasets offer a low-cost opportunity to investigate influences on knee osteoarthritis (OA) prevalence and outcomes such as total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or dataset: Electronic health record data from 25 primary care clinics in 3 FQHCs in Washington and Idaho PBRN from 2012-2017. Population Studied: Average-risk females ages 21-64 with ≥1 medical encounter and ≥1 routine CCS during 2012-2017.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A referral order was created in the hospital system’s electronic health record to the "Hospital Discharge Clinic," and referrals were placed for urgent (7-day) or routine (14-day) TCM appointments. Referrals were not placed for patients being discharged to another facility or who already had an outside primary care provider.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic. Study design and analysis This is a multiple-center retrospective real-world cohort study. Propensity score matching and multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression model were conducted. Population Studied individuals with comorbidity of hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

11 of 13 consensus criteria for CBI and 4 of 10 items for registry entry were voted as core data elements and are deemed feasible to be abstracted from electronic medical records (EMR).

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