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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Wellstar MCG Health is a 520-bed tertiary hospital with a Family Medicine inpatient service and an attached Family Medicine resident continuity clinic. Population Studied: Inpatients were referred if they were being discharged from the Family Medicine service to home.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Central tenets of primary care are essential to the delivery of effective MCC care: person & family-centered, comprehensive, equitable, team-based, collaborative, coordinated and integrated. The emergence of FIHR enables the development of interoperable apps to facilitate comprehensive, shared care planning.

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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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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. Three reasons why learning Artificial Intelligence in health care may be a responsibility and not an option: 1. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The aim of this study was to explore the role of PGx in primary care (i.e. family medicine) and the need for education in this area. These themes reflect a shift in the role of PGx in primary care with implications for education. Recurrent themes were identified.

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Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

We examined how well chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings adhered to guidelines. METHODS We used electronic health records from the PRIME registry to identify patients with diagnosis codes or positive test results for chlamydia and/or gonorrhea from 2018 to 2022.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Delivering parental tobacco treatment during pediatric primary care visits may help to reduce the effects of these structural barriers, thereby increasing the likelihood of parental tobacco cessation and reducing children’s tobacco exposure in these populations. Setting: Primary care clinics in the Minneapolis-St.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Practice settings included general primary care, senior care, concierge care, urgent care, and employer-based care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective chart search of the electronic medical records of a specific sub-group of patients at UNMC. Number of patients who meet inclusion criteria at Family Medicine Clinics: 6,551 Patients. Conclusion: There is a need for more screening for AAA in primary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Social determinants of health (SDOH) such as access to care and economic stability negatively impact colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates. 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

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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%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Integration of patient reported social risk questionnaires in electronic health records allows for assessment of individual-level SES, but this data is frequently missing. Further evaluation is needed to apply use of social risk questionnaires and HOUSES index in primary care settings. live in rural areas. live in rural areas.

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Noreta Family Medicine

JUNE 25, 2024

However, this clip was sent to me by another Direct Primary Care (DPC) doctor, and I thought that it was well done and that it deserved to be shared! Insert a different medical problem and a different medicine, and this situation repeats itself daily in a primary care office. My patients have a say in their care.

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Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Understand the Different Types of Diabetes Doctors Before searching for a diabetes doctor, it’s important to understand the types of medical professionals who treat Type 2 diabetes: Primary Care Physician (PCP): Often the first point of contact, they handle basic diabetes management.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — It is feasible to use electronic health record (EHR) data in the Pediatric Asthma Risk Score (PARS) to accurately predict childhood asthma risk, according to a study published in the June issue of eClinicalMedicine. Arthur Hamie Owora, Ph.D.,

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. Vinod Rao, M.D.,

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. Who do we have with us today?

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 14, 2025

Benton) 13:08 Youth Suicide Crisis Discussion, “Ringing the Alarm” 20:10 Shift in Issue Framing in the Literature 24:31 The Network Begins with Primary Care 28:42 Diversifying your Outreach 30:54 Cultural Humility Speaker Biographies Dr. Tami Benton, MD , is the Frederick Allen Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Insurers must provide clearer explanations when care is denied and explain how patients can appeal. By 2027, at least 80% of electronic prior authorization requests will be answered in real time, and the process will be easier to do online.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Paul Amendola, Executive Director, VecnaCares Reference: Bartlett L , Avery L , Ponnappan P , et al, Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000845.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: This is a retrospective observational study of primary care visits during the 2019-2022 study period. Setting or Dataset: American Family Cohort, a data asset including electronic health records of 8 million patients from family practices across 50 US states. 95% CI 0.51, 0.7)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Refugees and other newcomers may face fragmented prenatal care during resettlement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends discussing family planning and preconception counseling at the domestic medical exam (DME), yet there is little guidance on specific counseling needs in this population.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health record data and chart review with chi square testing of the association of secondary acceptance of the HPV vaccine with child, clinician, healthcare processes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): Understand the unique lived experiences of Latinas with cervical cancer over 45 years old across the cancer care continuum. Participants were recruited via electronic healthcare records, community tabling events, and social media efforts. Verbatim transcripts in English and Spanish were analyzed in NVivo 14.

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Canadian Family Physician

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Objective To describe the provision of primary and specialist palliative care for older adults with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD). Design Population-based retrospective descriptive cohort study using electronic health records. Sixty-eight percent were female (n=32), and the mean (SD) age was 81 (8) years.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Policies and products that support pediatricians in providing confidential and timely contraceptive care to adolescents should be designed by governments, insurers, electronic health care vendors, and health care systems. ” Abstract/Full Text Copyright © 2025 HealthDay.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Know Your Values: Please go see your primary care physician to get blood tests done. Try shutting off the lights, putting your phone away, sleeping in a cool and comfortable bed, limiting electronics in the bedroom, and having no caffeine after 4pm. Additionally, it increases your risk for heart failure and lung cancer.

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GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

Today, we talk with Bernie Lo, prominent bioethicist and practicing primary care internist, and Laurie Dornbrand, geriatrician at the IOA On Lok PACE, about the legacy of Nancy Curzan. ICU care was pretty rudimentary. We use Bernie’s NEJM Perspective as a springboard for discussion. And that helps us get to the decision.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

And I think a big part of that journey was just having that right time, that right moment, with the right network and support groups of individuals, including my family, to really lift me up and allow me to celebrate my authentic self. If we think of discrimination, how people are treated by their biological family. Caregivers too.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So my family is from Maui and were impacted by the wildfires, so I really appreciate this. Alex: How is your family doing? My family’s also from Maui. And her dad’s family, the Makekaus family, which is based in Lahaina, and we actually visited their grave sites there, when we were there a few years ago.

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GeriPal

JUNE 15, 2023

We talk on this podcast about potential uses of AI in geriatrics and palliative care with natural language processing guru Charlotta Lindvall from DFCI, bioethicists and internist Matt DeCamp from University of Colorado, and prognosis wizard Sei Lee from UCSF. This is Eric Widera. Welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Charlotta.

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