Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To this end, The Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) Diversity and Health Equity (DHE) Committee developed and piloted a framework to measure DEI initiatives across 5 domains: Curriculum, Evaluation, Institution, Resident Pathway, and Faculty Pathway. and mean=2.12, respectively).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) recognizes the critical role of family medicine (FM) research in primary care and healthcare systems. Engaging researchers and leveraging evidence are essential for addressing the challenges faced by FM and family physicians.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (MCC) the most common condition seen in practice are present in 33% of adults and 80% of individuals age > 65. User testing of MCC eCareplan apps provided lessons learned across areas specific to patient-centeredness, effectiveness, fidelity, shareability, feasibility, scalability, and performance.

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Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 11, 2024

3 Tufts University School of Medicine Maine Track students and 5 University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine students participated as teachers during the event. Doc4aDay is a community outreach program provided through the Maine Medical Center Department of Medical Education.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

A couple of years ago, I partnered with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Longitudinal Certificate Course project. It was emphasized that well-being is a shared responsibility—systems must provide adequate resources and a healthy environment to prevent burnout, which is an occupational issue.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention ECHO Pain started in June 2014 and offered weekly 90-minute sessions that include a didactic lecture followed by a de-identified patient case presentation. In this study, we present a narrative summary of our program achievements and research in the past ten years.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: Primary care providers were invited to attend a webinar that focused on identifying patients who may benefit from CGM use, best practices for prescribing, and CGM interpretation. Patients were provided a CGM, received education on medication, diet and exercise, and completed surveys at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months.

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Primary Care Diabetes Patients Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The objective of this study was to make explicit how occupational therapists provide self-management support to people living with chronic pain to highlight their specific contribution to primary care teams. Setting: Quebec, Canada Population studied: Occupational therapists providing chronic self-management support interventions.

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Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Setting: Seven family medicine practices in one Colorado USA health system. Visits were largely scheduled individual visits (85%), provided in person (70%), and involving psychotherapy (90%). Patients were seen by the BHPs for a wide variety of presenting concerns.

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Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Emergency department clinicians (physicians, nurses and physiotherapists) (n=269) and patients aged 18 years and older who presented to an emergency department with non-specific or radicular low back pain (n=4,625) were included. Results: There was a 7.1% 3.65), a 1.4%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In the US, opioid use disorder (OUD) presents significant and urgent public health concerns. Most participants indicated that they would benefit from additional ECHO OUD sessions and that the sessions were valuable to PC providers. Unfortunately, most individuals suffering from OUD do not have access to necessary care.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Health Trends Across Communities (HTAC) is an innovative health data surveillance project that provides public health professionals, healthcare systems, researchers, community organizations, and policy makers with robust and timely summary electronic health record (EHR) information to support health equity and improve health across Minnesota.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Qualitative and quantitative data pertaining to provider self-efficacy, satisfaction, knowledge, and practice change have been rigorously collected since its inception.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: This study was conducted at the 2023 annual Primary Care Leadership Track retreat for Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and at the 2023 GHHS Northeast Regional Conference. Results: 31 out of the 33 respondents (93.9%) agreed that the workshop provided them with new knowledge about NBM. Respondents disagreed (Likert 2.2/5)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The review included the most recent and relevant articles to provide a narrative of the diverse set of taxonomies related to Super-utilization. Efforts to reduce frequent and multi-dimensional acute care presentations using current care models appear ineffective. Articles were intentionally chosen to illustrate primary themes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

MOHR presented a list of 10-15 actionable evidence-based strategies that patients could select to improve the risk. The navigator then checked in with the patient weekly to provide additional support and guidance. Patients could create a care plan for up to two identified risks.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The context: Immigrants, particularly those moving from lower to higher-income countries, often exhibit a heightened susceptibility to non-communicable diseases, such as Type 2 diabetes (T2D), which may manifest at an earlier age and present with different complications compared to the native population.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. These factors will be discussed in the presentation. Also, more Black women reported being informed about the type of CCS they received.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Culturally-competent, high-quality training is provided via coursework, seminars/workshops, and mentored, hands-on research. SETTING: Academic medical center. POPULATON: Trainees with terminal degree in health care or related field and interested in PC-based research careers.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is the first study elucidating clinician knowledge on the risk and symptomatic presentation of patient arsenic exposure from well water. Study Design: A cross-sectional survey of patients and clinicians active at Mayo Clinic in the American Midwest (Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Iowa).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This systematic review aims to determine if oral antibiotic treatment is non-inferior to single dose IV followed by oral antibiotic treatment in terms of efficacy and complications in adults presenting to the emergency department (ED) with acute pyelonephritis.

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Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Populations Studied: Primary care providers who delivered care to young children and parents/caregivers of children who were under the age of six during the pandemic. Results: 102 individuals completed the on-line survey and of those, 19 participated in the interviews (13 parents and six primary care providers).

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

JUNE 23, 2021

[link] Simone and Lindsey present a case to Dr. Kirsten Austad, followed by a discussion about women in leadership and “the double bind” Want to test your learning? She completed her residency in Family Medicine at Boston Medical Center, the largest safety-net hospital in New England.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. Providers were alerted of positive screens by rooming staff to either assess further or refer to our Pediatric SUD Clinic to manage.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Additional data will be presented on the substance use and illness trajectories of the pilot study. The larger, full-scale trial will provide more data on the association between acute rhinosinusitis and substance use. Conclusions: Data from the pilot study shows that the RAN group had a higher proportion of daily smokers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Actively practicing North Carolina internal medicine and family medicine physicians. Most saw race as being presented as biological in the ASCVD risk calculator, which concerned them. Responses were analyzed using both deductive and inductive approaches to identify primary topics.

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Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results. When indicated, medications can also start sooner when they stand to provide greater lifetime protective effects against irreversible damage. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Recent Family Physician graduates practicing as locum tenens has been sometimes presented as a double-edged sword in addressing the Family Medicine workforce crisis. Objective: To explore the factors influencing early career family physicians’ (FPs) decision to do locums. parental leave).

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? This relatively slim volume is divided into three parts.

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Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Joseph, the family medicine practice is committed to providing exceptional, affordable, patient-centered primary care in SW Michigan without reliance on insurance companies for payment of services. Family Physicians of St. From the time of its inception until October 2017, Family Physicians of St. Joseph, P.C.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Dataset: EHR data include: PCP/APP characteristics (specialty, location), patient demographics (age, ethnicity, responsible provider), and encounter data (type, date, provider).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In previous studies using MEDICODE, attitudes or emotions (A/E) were coded as present/absent. However, present/absent coding limited interpretations of this important component of patient experience. Correlations between expressions of A/E and psychological distress post consultation will be available at the time of presentation.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

RESULTS: Primary care was identified to be an ideal setting for OUD care due to its potential as the first point of contact in the health system; the opportunity to offer other health and social services to people with OUD; and the ability to coordinate with other care providers (e.g.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study aimed to characterize populations with COVID-19 and LCS, describes symptoms, and health care utilization by presenting symptoms. The variety of symptoms experienced presents a challenge for health care providers demonstrating the value of interdisciplinary care teams.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It includes testimonials from women which present their struggles with quitting and how they managed to overcome them. It provides the users with insights regarding the initial steps to take in their quit journey, how do cope with stress in healthy ways, and the importance of receiving support from other women during the quit process.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures: Program reach, descriptive information on the patient population, and HEC effort spent on cases, community engagement, administrative tasks, and presentations. During this same period, the HEC engaged in 826 meetings with local CBOs requiring more than 1,400 total contact hours.

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Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130