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Hearing Screening in Private Family Practice Medicine Using Tablet Applications [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

The present study evaluated the acceptability and the feasibility of hearing screening for patients consulting in private family practice medicine. RESULTS Of the 516 eligible patients, 219 (42%) were able to perform both tests. These tools are based on pure-tone detection and speech-in-noise evaluation.

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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models. Study Design and Analysis.

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Staff perspectives of a novel integrated community care hub in an urban underserved population (UK) [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

o Intervention/Instrument The SCZ began in March 2022 and includes paediatricians from Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, local social care providers, and GPs from seven family practices delivering care in shared locations.

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Doctors give ineffective weight loss advice to patients with obesity, finds research

Medical Xpress

A new research study published today in Family Practice finds that when doctors tell patients living with obesity to lose weight, the guidance they give is generally vague, superficial, and commonly not supported by scientific evidence.

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Using EMR data to describe administrative workload of primary care providers in Nova Scotia, Canada [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. Results: Clinicians with 500 or more patient contacts had an average of 2.7 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007. prescriptions, 1.1 (0.5)

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FDA Approves Polypill Widaplik for Hypertension

Physician's Weekly

The combination pill is the first and only FDA-approved triple combination medication for use as an initial therapy in patients who will likely need multiple drugs to achieve their ideal blood pressure numbers. The most common adverse event reported in patients treated with Widaplik was symptomatic low blood pressure.

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Mailed Self-Collection Kits Increase Rates of Cervical Cancer Screening

Physician's Weekly

from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and colleagues compared the effectiveness of mailed SC kits, with and without patient navigation, versus telephone reminders for increasing cervical cancer screening. percent in the SC with patient navigation group participated in cervical cancer screening.