California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Proposed Changes to Prescription Drug Coverage Prescription Drug Utilization Management- Implements utilization management and prior authorization for prescription drugs. CAFP is actively advocating to preserve critical workforce funding that trains and sustains family physicians across the state. million total funds ($1.46

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. Families, Systems, & Health, 39(2), 259–268. Position Statement on Utilization of Measurement Based Care. DeSantis, B.,

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AMMD

JUNE 12, 2025

Without adequate Vitamin A, your body may struggle to utilize the thyroid hormones it produces(2), even if your lab values look “normal.” B Vitamins (Especially B12, B6, and Folate) The B-vitamin family is essential for many processes in the body, including energy production, red blood cell formation, and stress resilience.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so. Objective The GP-MATE study has built a new intervention for family medicine and patients/carers through co-design.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) adopted a resolution (policy guidance) in 2024 related to addressing food insecurity in Minnesota. Family physicians play a pivotal role in combating food insecurity, serving as trusted advocates for their patients and connecting them to essential food resources.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Context: The ASCVD risk calculator includes race as a variable in its risk estimation. Using race to guide clinical decision-making is a controversial practice and efforts to revise medical equations incorporating race are underway.

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Oasis Family Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2024

While we have had neurofeedback therapy available at Oasis Family Medicine since 2017, it is always our goal to offer the most up-to-date therapies available. It may be utilized as the primary treatment approach, or as an adjunct to other therapies. I went on a year-long search for a new (and hopefully better) neurofeedback system.

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Myriad Genetics

MARCH 13, 2024

Many of us have seen stories in the news about American families on diagnostic odysseys for their children with rare diseases. More and more, doctors, researchers, and families are turning to technologies like AI and even Google to help them decode health symptoms and get on the road to solutions and treatments. None of them.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design: A qualitative descriptive study design was utilized. The tool was implemented and tested in four university-affiliated family medicine groups in Quebec, Canada from December 2021 to October 2022. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.

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Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact the Center for Family Medicine. Nearly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experience mental illness each year. What is Mental Health?

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Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente.

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

By the utilization of patient financing strategies, we can help to facilitate a means of affordability for the everyday patient.</span></span></p> Reinforce the motivation for treatment by utilizing the same interdisciplinary vocabulary amongst offices. link] Dated June 2019. Accessed February 2021.</span></p>

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East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Utilize health check-ups as an opportunity to discuss any stress, anxiety, or emotional struggles you may be facing. In the hustle and bustle of daily life, it’s easy to put our health on the backburner. However, the adage “prevention is better than cure” couldn’t be truer when it comes to our well-being.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

abnormal thyroid exam Messaging for patients and families When constipation leads to a child not being able to move their bowels, they may experience pain. abnormal thyroid exam Messaging for patients and families When constipation leads to a child not being able to move their bowels, they may experience pain. 2017;186:87-94.e16.

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Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

Utilizing in-network providers ensures that you receive the maximum coverage and reduces your out-of-pocket expenses. The post Navigating Insurance and Healthcare Costs: Tips for Patients appeared first on Family Physicians of Greeley, PLLP.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

MAY 26, 2025

Limiting these cholesterol-raising oils is just as important as utilizing healthier options in your cooking. How Cooking Oils Impact Cholesterol Before getting into specific oils, it helps to know a little about dietary fats and cholesterol. Cholesterol is a form of fat with a waxy consistency that is found in your blood.

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CDOCS

JUNE 15, 2021

& Fluo glaze was utilized, and the stains were shade 1 for gingival warmth, shade I 2 for translucency and shade Creme for the framing (Figure 5).</span></p> The hand contouring is what can really set a case like this apart, knowing the anatomy and defining the line angles a touch more than what the mill can do (Figure 4).

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CDOCS

JUNE 30, 2021

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GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Are there, though, populations that it may be helpful in, or should that change with the advent of the new amyloid antibodies? Should it? If so, how do we screen and who do we screen?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 19, 2024

It’s also important to remember that patients and families feel unclean and stigmatized by this common infection – but they shouldn’t! Scabies is everywhere! It’s also very treatable with permethrin topically. Also “Scabies for the Babies” will be stuck in your head.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2024

All of the lyrics are my original creations and inspired by the original work The music was then created on the Udio AI music platform I utilized Adobe Photoshop and Image_Creators AI images on the Poe Platform to create the album art and background images I then edited the final video on Final Cut Pro

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GeriPal

MAY 5, 2022

Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. Think about the last time you attended a talk on communication skills or goals of care discussions. Was there any mention about the impact that hearing loss has in communication or what we should do about it in clinical practice?

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PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Numerous studies have found that radiographs performed in these clinical conditions rarely reveal information necessitating a change in ED management despite high CXR utilization and wide variation in both children’s specialty hospitals and general EDs. But it’s just a CXR right?

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The Motivated MD

OCTOBER 3, 2024

If our family were to evacuate for a severe weather event and return to find a completely destroyed home or town, what would that look like financially? You have all seen it over the past week. The devastation that wrecked Asheville, NC, amongst so many other areas along Hurricane Helene’s pathway. The destruction was truly apocalyptic.

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The Motivated MD

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

There are also homeowners insurance costs, property taxes, flood insurance (depending on where you live), any upgrades to the home, utilities (sometimes included in rent expenses), upfront costs to include a downpayment, and closing fees. I know firsthand how much anxiety can come when deciding to rent or buy a home. This is no easy feat.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Messaging for patients and families When children have a viral respiratory illness, it is usually pretty self evident based on their symptoms e.g. runny nose, cough, congestion. The clinical utility of respiratory viral testing in hospitalized children: a meta-analysis. A negative test can also provide false reassurance. JAMA Pediatr.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. The lack of utility of laboratory testing in children with an unprovoked generalized seizure, or a simple febrile seizure is supported by several observational studies. Glucose We all need it.

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CDOCS

MAY 4, 2021

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New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Direct primary care offers you and your family top-notch health care, and so much more.like a high patient and provider satisfaction with an improved quality of care. Providers at New South Family Medicine and MedSpa can address the patient's deeper needs, rather than trying to rush through a hectic day full of too-brief appointments.

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

Discussing obtaining an ECG with patients and families Presentations to the emergency department for syncope can be stressful for families. Syncope is described as a brief loss of consciousness and postural tone caused by transient global cerebral hypoperfusion. It is followed by a complete recovery. It is also known as pre-excitation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: A phenomenological approach was utilized. Lives Disrupted: Disruptions occurred in participants’ lives; the degree of disruption ranged from inconvenient (difficulty getting groceries) to the dire (unable to be with family member at death). virtual connections with family, friends, groups).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 16, 2025

Meanwhile, actual stigma experiences involving friends and family were linked with a preference for receiving LA-PrEP in an HCP setting over a pharmacy. This preference away from pharmacies may be due to their inherently public nature, where one might be more likely to be seen by friends or family,” Dr. Glick and colleagues wrote.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2022

Valtis is a 4th year Med-Peds Resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, and his research focuses on race and the utilization of security responses in the inpatient hospital setting. Race and the Utilization of Security Responses in a Hospital Setting. Orlando, FL.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Eric: Well, what are the odds that two family members focus on a similar topic and do research together? laughter] Alex: We love the family theme. Going into patient’s homes was eye opening. There were trip hazards, loose carpets, some people were hoarders. Their job was done. This is a first for our GeriPal podcast, right, Alex?

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Social workers augment a team’s ability to provide whole-person care, often aiding to identify and meaningfully address the wide variety of challenges and unmet needs faced by individuals and families facing serious illness. But are we really taking full advantage of ALL social workers have to offer our field? by: Anne Kelly, LCSW, APHSW-C.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

And so, three years of seeing over and over people having really difficult end of life experiences in the ICU, not being able to advocate for themselves, a lot of trauma for their families, I just thought, we have to do better than this. ABIM MOC credit will be offered to subscribers in November, 2024. Welcome to GeriPal, Lyndsay.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. That’s why we do this podcast- to address real world issues in palliative care, geriatrics, and bioethics. Ann: No, he was very excited.

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