Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In response to a call initiated by CIHR in 2023, inviting patient, public, and community participation, the Patient Council of the Canadian Primary Care Research Network (CPCRN) responded with a Report on March 25, 2024. Population Studied: CPCRN Patient Council.

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

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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

Objective: Our study investigates ID prevalence in Alberta from 2010 to 2022 and its association with patient and provider characteristics. Study Design: Retrospective analysis of electronic medical data obtained from the Canadian Primary Care Research Network, Southern Alberta Primary Care Research Network (SAPCReN-CPCSSN).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Because people with MCC typically see multiple providers in multiple care settings often using different EHRs, critical information is difficult to obtain, leading to fragmented care, clinician and patient burden, and suboptimal outcomes. The apps also collect patient reported data on goals, social needs, and functional status.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023. Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Setting: A partnership between the Minnesota Electronic Health Record Consortium (MNEHRC), public health professionals at the Center for Community Health (CCH), and Hennepin County Public Health.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics. for CA, 0.85

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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). A comprehensive C&OSD dataset is provided which can be used by both generalist and specialist ophthalmologists. © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. .

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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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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. Quantify distribution of uncompensated workload based on provider characteristics/demographics. Results: 192 surveys sent; 67% response rate.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most diabetes care is provided within primary care. Objective: To understand if the pandemic resulted in changes in care for patients with diabetes. 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

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Study Design and Analysis Retrospective cross-sectional study.

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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. We analyzed verbatim transcripts using thematic analysis.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided over 30 months, with correlating Medicaid claims data. Setting or Dataset: Medicaid Claims, Epic electronic health record. Population Studied: Attributed patients of participating clinics; clinic staff; Colorado state agency staff.

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Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. What does the doctor do first?

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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. Objective: To assess the feasibility and acceptability of administering the I-Score on a patient portal. We provide descriptive statistics. Setting: A large hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

After a few more questions, all three patients turned out to actually be doing much better than the messages suggested. In all three cases, one or two simple followup questions provided information that the prescribed treatments had actually worked fairly well. Difficile diarrhea. We learned this in medical school and residency.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus.

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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). and 0.28 ±0.12).

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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

Understanding SDOH documentation in electronic health records (EHRs) is crucial for care management to improve patient outcomes and mitigate health inequities. This study supports critical payment policies that provide direct payment for SDOH risk assessment and support to community-based partners.

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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. Setting: De-identified EMR data from 1,574 primary care providers participating in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN). depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder), and schizophrenia.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 12, 2023

Finding the right patients for clinical trials can be a struggle and require much time and effort. Clinical researchers have wondered whether screening the electronic health record (EHR) could improve the process. Could it provide enough information to determine whether a patient is a good fit for a study?

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Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. These professionals play a vital role in maintaining essential services and ensuring continuity of patient care.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess provider perceptions of the clinical effectiveness of telemedicine video visits, immediately post-encounter, compared to in-person visits. Setting: Providers across six Northern California clinic sites surveyed over an 8-week period (March 21-May 16, 2023). Outcome Measures: Self-reported Likert-scale responses.

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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. A housing asset-based measure of SES (HOUSES) can provide individual-level SES without need for patient questionnaires. live in rural areas.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The primary care practitioners’ (PCP) perceptions of disease given patients’ conditions are reflected in their narrated questions to specialists while using eConsult, an online primary care service. We then used pretrained Language Model (BERT) to extract important terms associated with contrasting segments of data.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Electronic risk assessment and communication may enhance screening and prevention, but patient perspectives are understudied. Patient coinvestigators and clinicians were involved in all research steps. Context Few affected by hereditary cancer syndromes know their cancer risk.

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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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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 26, 2023

Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner. Dr. Beach’s research focuses on humanizing healthcare by promoting respect for patients as well as improved patient-clinician communication. He has also served as a Council member and Secretary of SGIM.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. What the Patients Said According to the study, three key themes emerged: Negative encounters dominated. Isbell, PhD , of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and colleagues.

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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MAY 27, 2025

Healthcare administrative assistants handle the clerical and office tasks that support patient care. Their role improves the patient experience and helps doctors, nurses, and other providers work more efficiently. Typical responsibilities include: Managing front desk operations, including greeting patients and answering phones.

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