Family Medicine, Patient-Centered and Primary Care

Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

Primary Care

Primary Care Utilities PCP PCP

Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

But how has the specialty of family medicine fared, and what else can be done to extend capacity of the existing primary care workforce? Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S. As our discussion pointed out, though, these proposals have serious disadvantages.

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Advocating for Family Medicine

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 27, 2025

In today’s ever-shifting landscape, we know that family physicians face increasing strain caring for patients, administrative burden and navigating a system that undervalues primary care. That’s why advocating for family medicine is more important than ever. Your voice and experiences matter.

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Pilot Testing of the Treatment Burden Screening in Diabetes Tool in Primary Care [Multimorbidity]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Nearly all patients with type 2 diabetes have comorbid chronic conditions, adding complexity to self-management. A tool to more efficiently relay points of patient-perceived treatment burden during a primary care visit may lead to more patient-centered care plans and improved outcomes.

Primary Care

Primary Care Diabetes Screening Patient-Centered

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

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. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. Phillips, Jr.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services

Patient Journey Mapping: How Attached and Unattached Community Members Access Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: This study aims to understand the current primary care access experience of both attached and unattached community members, using the established qualitative technique of journey mapping. Framework analysis was employed to examine the patient experience in-depth.

Primary Care

Primary Care Community Finance Patients

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Optimizing continuity of care improves care quality, outcomes, and costs. Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Female patients had lower rates of NS, but higher rates of SDC. for CA, 0.85

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Comparing impact of a holistic patient centered navigation model to an online navigation service on health care utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. in Year +1, and in primary visits was 0.7 (-0.6, Regression models were all adjusted with sociodemographic covariates. in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3,

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Patient-Centered Utilities ER Patients

Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. SETTING: Academic medical center. POPULATON: Trainees with terminal degree in health care or related field and interested in PC-based research careers.

Primary Care

Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered

Utilization of Treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the Primary Care Setting Using the American Family Cohort [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Since untreated cases can have severe health consequences, non-adherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Sexually Transmitted Disease Treatment guidelines (CDC) remains a concern. Objective: This study examined guideline adherence for chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings.

Primary Care

Primary Care Families Family Utilities

Evaluating the Impact of Data Visualization with China-PAR on Hypertension Management in Primary Care: A Pilot Study [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Setting or Dataset two primary health centers. Study design and analysis This pilot study was structured as a randomized controlled trial.

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Hypertension Primary Care General Practitioner Management

Behavioral Health Provider Perspectives on the Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) is a model in which medical and behavioral health providers work together to provide whole person care, usually in primary care settings. Despite success in some community health centers and Federally Qualified Health Centers, IBH is not widely implemented in other settings.

Primary Care

Primary Care Provider Consulting Illness

AHRQs National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR): A New Home for Primary Care Research [Special Report]

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

For the past 30 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has continuously supported primary care research, funding the first ECHO grant, pioneering patient-centered medical home models, and supporting primary care practice-based research networks.

Primary Care

Primary Care Specialization Patient-Centered Healthcare

Development and Testing of an Interoperable e-care Plan for Person-Centered Care Planning for Multiple Chronic Conditions [Multimorbidity]

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

OurCare Standard: Advancing patient-centered primary care in Canada [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Despite Canada’s systems of universal health insurance, more than one-in-five people do not have access to primary care. Bold reform is needed centered on the values and priorities of patients and the public. Setting Canada. Population Studied Adults 18 years and over living in Canada.

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Patient-Centered Primary Care Patients Community

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. Three reasons why learning Artificial Intelligence in health care may be a responsibility and not an option: 1. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips.

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Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional

Health Care Homes Certification: Advancing Primary Care in MN

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state.

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Patient experiences navigating US healthcare with long-COVID - Part 3 of 3 [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For many patients with long-COVID, primary care is the first point of interaction with the healthcare system. In principle, primary care is well-situated to manage long-COVID. However, beyond expressions of disempowerment, the patient’s perspective regarding the quality of long-COVID care is lacking.

Healthcare

Healthcare Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. Also encourage state Medicaid offices to renew efforts to limit regulation related to integrated care practices.

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Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: A qualitative study Setting: Primary care setting in Shanghai, China Population Studied, 15 directors of the high-quality development pilot community health service centers in Shanghai were selected as interviewees.

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Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease

Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Setting: Primary care clinics across Saskatchewan.

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Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Relationship PCP

Insights from an Operational Survey within the NNE CO-OP PCBRN [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

Primary Care

Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community

Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: One of the most common primary care illnesses is acute rhinosinusitis (ARS). Study Design: As part of a large multi-center pragmatic randomized comparative effectiveness trial funded by PCORI, we recruited 141 adults with upper respiratory tract infections as part of a pilot feasibility demonstration.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Emergency Room Patient-Centered

Logansport Memorial Welcomes New Primary Care Physician

Logansport Memorial Hospital

JUNE 28, 2024

He is a primary care physician with a passion for providing full-spectrum primary care for his patients. Beginning in August, Dr. Anderson-Been will see patients in LMPN Family Medicine, located on the second floor of Medical Office Building West.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care DO Family Medicine

Enhancing Provider Confidence in Communicating with Patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) through Patient Letters [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Effective communication with patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) is a significant challenge in healthcare, often leading to poorer health outcomes and patient dissatisfaction. Secondary measures included the identification of common challenges and preferred methods of communication with patients with LEP.

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Provider Patients Patient-Centered Healthcare

Improving Patient-Centered Communication in Primary Care: Results from a Multisite Cluster Randomized Trial [Patient engagement]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite various attempts to improve patient-clinician communication, there has been limited head-to-head comparison of these efforts. Objective: to enhance patient-clinician communication, building on a previous pilot that created promising prototypes of interventions.

Primary Care

Primary Care Patient-Centered Patients Management

A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e., Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis.

Electronics

Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care

A Change of Mind on MOUD: Impact of Messages to Motivate Expanded Access to Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Intervention: A rural-setting family physician scripted informal videos describing her extensive experience with treating patients with OUD using buprenorphine.

Primary Care

Primary Care Education Patient-Centered Chronic Disease

Pap-HPV co-testing adoption trends for cervical cancer screening in a multi-state Practice Research Network (PBRN) 2012-2017 [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Little is known about variation in adoption of CCS modalities in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in communities where cervical cancer disparities persist. Setting or dataset: Electronic health record data from 25 primary care clinics in 3 FQHCs in Washington and Idaho PBRN from 2012-2017.

Screening

Screening Insurance Patient-Centered Primary Care

Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Diabetes management (DM) for patients with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) can be hindered by non-medical, health-related social needs. Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Setting: Ambulatory clinics (e.g.,

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider

Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Improved asthma outcomes are associated with effective communication between patients and providers, such as using shared decision-making. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03

Primary Care

Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider

Validation of the "Proactive" self-assessment tool for older people to identify their own risk of functional decline [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. Conclusions: The differences between the results of Proactive and the clinical examination highlight its potential for patient-centered risk identification. Setting: Community-based.

Screening

Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered

Pilot of Family Medicine Parent Partnership: Supporting mothers with depressive symptoms and promoting child development [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Maternal depression appears to have negative effects on child development (cognitive, language, emotional) in part because of the impact of depressive symptoms on parenting practices and family life, particularly in early childhood. using items adapted from the Family Map Inventories (measured pre- and post-intervention).

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Family Medicine DO Family Families

Evaluation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care: Results from a randomized controlled trial [Geriatrics]

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.

Primary Care

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Mainland China’s primary care system significantly differs from those in developed countries in design, resources, and capabilities. Setting: Primary care settings in Shanghai, China. Population Studied: Shanghai patients enrolled in the family doctor contract service over the past twelve months.

Primary Care

Primary Care Family Doctor Family Families

Multisector Health Equity Coordination in a Midwestern Primary Care Practice, 2022-2023 [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Population Studied: Patients at a large primary care practice in the Mayo Clinic Health System located in Mankato, MN.

Primary Care

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered

Clinician and Staff Experiences with Approaches to Induction of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care practices can increase access to effective care by providing treatment with buprenorphine for opioid use disorder (OUD) and dependency. Induction is the brief, intense period when patients receive initial buprenorphine doses. Funded by Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Primary Care

Primary Care Telehealth Medical PCP

Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Nonadherence to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention treatment guidelines remains a concern. We examined how well chlamydia and gonorrhea treatment in primary care settings adhered to guidelines. Descriptive statistics were calculated for patient sociodemographic characteristics.

Primary Care

Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered Families

Combining evidence and experience for research recruitment and participation among patients in US community health centers [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Community health centers (CHCs) are recognized as trusted care providers with unique potential to support more effective recruitment and participation approaches. Context: Researchers and funders are recognizing the urgent need for more inclusive and representative clinical research to advance health equity.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Community Patients Primary Care

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Practice settings included general primary care, senior care, concierge care, urgent care, and employer-based care.

Telemedicine

Telemedicine Primary Care Provider Nurse Practitioner

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Telehealth became an essential tool to assist care delivery in the outpatient primary care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth.

Telehealth

Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance

"Investigating White Culture": a Phenomenological Study on How Culture Shapes Behavioral Health Processes in Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Integrated Primary Care (IPC) has increased due to increased demand for behavioral health services. Results: Seven themes were identified: Eurocentrism-Americanism, cultural alignment, structural inequity, patient-first wellness-centered approach, cultural framework, relationship dynamics, and systemic outlook.

Primary Care

Primary Care Behavioral Health Services Patient-Centered Illness

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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Forecasting and adapting to the family medicine workforce shortage

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Advocating for Family Medicine

Pilot Testing of the Treatment Burden Screening in Diabetes Tool in Primary Care [Multimorbidity]

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

Patient Journey Mapping: How Attached and Unattached Community Members Access Primary Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

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

Comparing impact of a holistic patient centered navigation model to an online navigation service on health care utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Utilization of Treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the Primary Care Setting Using the American Family Cohort [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Evaluating the Impact of Data Visualization with China-PAR on Hypertension Management in Primary Care: A Pilot Study [Hypertension]

Behavioral Health Provider Perspectives on the Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

AHRQs National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research (NCEPCR): A New Home for Primary Care Research [Special Report]

Development and Testing of an Interoperable e-care Plan for Person-Centered Care Planning for Multiple Chronic Conditions [Multimorbidity]

OurCare Standard: Advancing patient-centered primary care in Canada [Patient engagement]

Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Health Care Homes Certification: Advancing Primary Care in MN

Patient experiences navigating US healthcare with long-COVID - Part 3 of 3 [COVID-19]

An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Why Integrated Care Should Be a Cornerstone of the HHS Agenda

Enhancing primary healthcare capacity : A qualitative study from the perspective of managers of PHC institutions in China [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Insights from an Operational Survey within the NNE CO-OP PCBRN [Research capacity building]

Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Logansport Memorial Welcomes New Primary Care Physician

Enhancing Provider Confidence in Communicating with Patients with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) through Patient Letters [Health care disparities]

Improving Patient-Centered Communication in Primary Care: Results from a Multisite Cluster Randomized Trial [Patient engagement]

A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

A Change of Mind on MOUD: Impact of Messages to Motivate Expanded Access to Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings [Education and training]

Pap-HPV co-testing adoption trends for cervical cancer screening in a multi-state Practice Research Network (PBRN) 2012-2017 [Health care disparities]

Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Validation of the "Proactive" self-assessment tool for older people to identify their own risk of functional decline [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Pilot of Family Medicine Parent Partnership: Supporting mothers with depressive symptoms and promoting child development [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Evaluation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care: Results from a randomized controlled trial [Geriatrics]

Manifestation of Primary Care Features in Shanghais Family Doctor Service and Their Impact on Health: A Mixed-Methods Study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Multisector Health Equity Coordination in a Midwestern Primary Care Practice, 2022-2023 [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Clinician and Staff Experiences with Approaches to Induction of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Treatment of Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in Primary Care and Its Patient-Level Variation: An American Family Cohort Study [Original Research]

Combining evidence and experience for research recruitment and participation among patients in US community health centers [Research capacity building]

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Payer Mix Association with Primary Care Telehealth Service Trajectories [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

"Investigating White Culture": a Phenomenological Study on How Culture Shapes Behavioral Health Processes in Primary Care [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

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