Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
JUNE 20, 2025
AAFP Denounces Changes to ACIP and Vaccine Recommendations The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) stands with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) in denouncing the recent decisions made by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Patients in both groups averaged approximately 12 ED visits, 5.7
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Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Objective: This qualitative research explored how family physicians understand what professionalism means, how it is enacted in their day-to-day practice, and to identify challenges to professionalism. Results: Participants conceptualized professionalism as individualized and highly focused on patient care.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Objective To introduce the novel approach of using a T-Connector between a patient’s HBPM and their physician’s office sphygmomanometer to permit a simultaneous blood pressure reading. there appears to be reasonable utility for using a T-Connector to qualitatively declare a HBPM to be inaccurate for its user.
Annals of Family Medicine
NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". To address ongoing challenges with patient access and attachment to a primary care provider, several Canadian provinces introduced primary healthcare centralized wait lists (CWL). In 2019, 14.5%
Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) adopted a resolution (policy guidance) in 2024 related to addressing food insecurity in Minnesota.
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