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 Is a Primary Care Visit?

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Primary Care Appointment Telehealth PCP 100

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. Setting: Primary care clinics partnered with an academic health center. A one-time survey was also conducted.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Utilities Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patients with diabetes who receive structured and integrated care have better control and outcomes; however, care may shift between multiple settings making coordination challenging. Study Design and Analysis: Adoption and implementation of the program is described using descriptive statistics.

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Primary Care Diabetes Referral Integrated Care 130

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. Conclusions We developed and validated a novel EMR-based UTI case definition using a pan-Canadian primary care dataset.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most diabetes care is provided within primary care. Primary care experienced challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as reduced access to care. Objective: To understand if the pandemic resulted in changes in care for patients with diabetes.

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Primary Care Diabetes Finance Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A severe asthma registry in primary care is needed to determine the population prevalence and best practices in the real world. Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

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Asthma Primary Care Primary Care Physician Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Measures of handgrip strength are collected in primary care settings as a vital sign for the prevention of health conditions related to low muscle strength. Objective: We sought to determine the test-retest reliability of electronic handgrip dynamometry and accelerometry measured muscle function in older adults.

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Electronics Primary Care Utilities Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

BACKGROUND: Despite the emphasis of primary care’s (PC) role in breast cancer follow-up improvements have had limited clinical impact. OBJECTIVE: To prioritize implementation strategies to support PC adoption of evidence to guide breast cancer follow-up care.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

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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Appointment Primary Care Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Electronic health record data from 11 community-based clinics within a safety-net system in the Midwest from 07/01/2021-3/31/2024. Population Studied: 119,926 adult patients with one or more primary care visits during the 30-month study period. Design and Analysis: Observational study.

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Primary Care Referral Electronics Individual 130

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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Management Primary Care Telehealth Hypertension 130

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Consulting Electronics Provider 52

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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Primary Care Electronics Patients Appointment 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The PATHWEIGH trial aims to embed structured obesity care into primary care, addressing barriers and boosting clinician confidence and patient outcomes. Barriers include time constraints, lack of training in obesity treatment, limited reimbursement, and the absence of structured care pathways.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 52

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 21, 2025

A recent inquiry within the CFHA community sought recommendations on implementing the Primary Care Behavioral Health (P CBH) model at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that had received CCBHC Demonstration. Ensure that you engage in culture-building across the FQHC to maintain the primary care focus.

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Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Integrated Care Mental Health 130

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Objective Administrative burden contributes to the current primary care crisis. This critical review of the literature explores how primary care administrative burden is discussed, including how it is defined and what drivers and solutions have been identified.

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Primary Care Screening Electronics Patients 52

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

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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Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

Electronics 130

Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

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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Primary Care Electronics PCP PCP 130

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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Primary Care Electronics Medical Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Referrals were not placed for patients being discharged to another facility or who already had an outside primary care provider. Intervention: A team was created with an attending physician, care coordinators, and front office staff. Additionally, decreased no-show rates provide for better resident learning and experience.

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Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To assess patient perceptions of a primary care-based LM clinic. Instrument: REDCap survey administered electronically or by phone. The survey highlighted motivators and barriers unique to this underserved population that will be used to inform efforts to quality of care in primary-care based LM clinics.

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Clinic Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

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Patients Primary Care Appointment Electronics 130

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. Objective: Quantify portal messaging patterns across the Rochester, MN Primary Care practices in 2022.

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Electronics Primary Care Provider Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. Study Design and Analysis Five electronic research databases were searched to identify randomized controlled trials (RCT) and non-randomized studies of interventions.

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Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

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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Primary Care Referral Provider Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Team-based models of care have become an integral part of the primary care system and is increasingly regarded as a key feature in achieving high-quality primary care by providing integrated, comprehensive, and continuous person-centred care.

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Primary Care Electronics Individual Provider 130

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.

Screening 130

Screening Insurance Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Weight loss is desired by many patients, but many primary care practices struggle to provide this care. PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight loss care to patients as part of regular health care.

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Primary Care Management Electronics Provider 130

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. These themes reflect a shift in the role of PGx in primary care with implications for education. Fitting education would help primary care clinicians to become more competent.

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Primary Care Education Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

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Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care delivery was significantly impacted by COVID-19, with rapid deployment of telehealth after the United States’ national public health emergency (PHE) declaration in March 2020. Population Studied: 1,792,934 adult patients with at least 1 telehealth (phone, video) or in-person primary care visit.

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Primary Care Screening Telehealth Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. 2010) and adapted by Schultz et al.

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Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Considering that effective teamwork develops over time and that the activities of primary care nurses are largely dependent on team functioning, highlighting what best promotes effective teamwork from their perspective could contribute to a better understanding of how to support team-based primary care.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Management Electronics 130