A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 3, 2025

In today’s reality, with Meaningful Use, ACOs and Patient Centered Medical Homes, we have to screen for various conditions and risk factors, update medication lists, immunizations and family and social history in every single visit. There really are no in-and-out quick visits anymore, thanks to our well meaning(?)

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Patients Appointment Patient-Centered Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Process maps revealed similar processes across BHPs/practices with some differences in completing screening and rooming and scheduling patients. Analysis involved descriptive statistics and a qualitative modified rapid matrix approach.

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Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

We also explored several questions with them, including how to define trauma, its prevalence in older adults, the impact of past traumatic experiences, the potential triggers of trauma screening, and the application of trauma-informed principles in clinical practice. How should we just universally just treat everybody? Mariah 23:02 Right.

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IT Patient-Centered Screening Patients 66