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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

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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Patient Violence Travels Cross-Setting: From EMS to ED to Inpatient

Physician's Weekly

Research shows that patient violence spans care settings, starting in the out-of-hospital setting, continuing in the ED, and persisting into inpatient units. The analysis captured 206 violent out-of-hospital encounters, 868 violent ED encounters, and 3,561 violent non-ED hospital encounters involving 2,251 unique patients.

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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

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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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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Permanente Live webinar — Finding success in value-based care

Permanente Medicine

But there is still much to be learned about how and why it benefits patients and health care systems. ET Location: Virtual via Zoom Where: Register to attend this free virtual one-hour event. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities. million Kaiser Permanente members.

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Q&A: Can Digital Inhalers Predict Exacerbations of COPD?

Physician's Weekly

Bradley Drummond, MD, MHS , professor of medicine in the Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine at the University of North Carolina, to learn more about the study and its implications for patients with COPD. We conducted a 3-month, phase-IV, open-label observational pilot study at two academic centers in North Carolina.

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Why Identifying and Managing Giant Cell Arteritis as an Emergency Is Crucial

Physician's Weekly

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Dr. Len Calabrese. Hello everyone.