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SGLT-2 inhibitor, cardiovascular risk and outcome in patients with comorbidity of hypertension and diabetes [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Two thirds of diabetes patients complicated with hypertension, and comorbidity increase 4-fold risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). Setting or Dataset Five electronic systems of community clinic. Population Studied individuals with comorbidity of hypertension and type 2 diabetes.

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A brief theory driven patient education video to reduce potentially harmful regular over-the-counter NSAID use [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are common medications with numerous well documented adverse effects, leading many professional organizations to recommended that certain patient populations avoid regular use. chronic kidney disease (CKD), heart failure (HF), and/or hypertension (HTN)).

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits. I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point.

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A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

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. COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients.

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Advancing Primary Care through a Model Unit for Innovative Practice Enhancement [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: The overarching objective of the MU is to enhance the delivery of high-quality care to a broader patient population. 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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Rural-urban differences in continuity of primary care among persons with prediabetes [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study is a retrospective cohort analysis of electronic health records of patients from Geisinger Health System. We used fractional logistic regression models controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, baseline HbA1c, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and BMI. The majority of patients are female (54.5% rural; 57% urban).