Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: There is a crisis in the primary care workforce in Canada. While approaches have been developed to support primary care health human resource (HHR) planning, most planning is conducted within sector silos and there are few examples that consider a regional approach within an integrated care system.

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Integrated Care Primary Care Finance Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record.

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Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT: The percentage of family physicians (FPs) in Ontario who practice primary care has been decreasing over time as FPs are choosing to focus some or all of their practice in more specialized areas. POPULATION STUDIED: All family physicians in Ontario, who submitted a billing claim during the study period.

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Family Physician Family Families Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Research from North America shows that a common reason for high emergency department (ED) use is the inaccessibility of primary care. Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed.

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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. Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82).

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Hypertension Primary Care General Practitioner Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital.

Electronics 130

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Setting: One private primary care clinic and two clinics of a safety net hospital system that serves inner-city populations with significant socio-economic challenges.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients. Nevertheless, the U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Finance Family Practice 130

The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

At around the same time, a commentary by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan advocated for a more expansive role for the NHSC in the 21st century, including options to practice community-oriented primary care, in urban hospitals, in public health, and in prison and international health settings. Phillips, Jr.

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Primary Care Community Family Doctor Family Medicine 130

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, in Year +1, and for hospitalizations was 1.2 (0.4, in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3, in Year 0 and 1.0 (-0.6,

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Utilities ER Patients 130

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 130

Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community 130

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

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 Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

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. Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Design and Analysis: Patients were evaluated for 6-month pre/post.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Family medicine is uniquely placed to help, but lacks structures, tools and funding to do so.

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GP Hospital Family Medicine DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Little is known about trends in primary care panel size in the United States, despite it being crucial to the relationships fundamental to primary care’s salutary effects and its importance to workforce planning amidst a national and worsening primary care shortage.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families Board-Certified 130

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 130

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area. Across all discharges, 43% had at least one ED visit or hospitalization within 6 months of discharge.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician PCP Utilities PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas. Population: 143 patients with 2+ hospital admissions or 4+ emergency department (ED) visits for medical indications in 6 months.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Written by Pat Moody on Moody on the Market When it comes to healthcare, and primary care in particular, it has become increasingly difficult to remain successful as a small, independent practice. Family Physicians of St. That makes them the first true Direct Primary Care practice in the entire region. Joseph, P.C.,

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Primary Care 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. Population Studied Medical assistants working in primary care. Interviews were coded for relevant content to identify common themes. Intervention/Instrument Semi-structured interview guide.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Management Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family physician (FP) scope of practice (SOP) has declined, with fewer physicians providing basic primary care services and fewer bridging the clinic-hospital divide. Study Design and Analysis: A longitudinal cohort was surveyed through the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care General Practitioner GP Diagnosis 130

Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

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Healthcare Primary Care Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: A combined dataset consisting of prenatal data from a primary care database and intrapartum data from a provincial hospital administrative database. Significance was set as p < 0.05.Dataset:

Screening 130

Screening Diabetes Primary Care Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The geographic maldistribution of primary care physicians across rural and underserved areas continues to exacerbate inequitable access to health care for populations with the most needs. Results: Among the 15,851 family physicians in this study, 36.1%

Community 130

Community Education Family Physician Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Successful implementation required the development of a scalable family history collection tool, the Genetic and Wellness Assessment (GWA) and Breast Health Assessment (BHA) tools; integrated pharmacogenomics programming; educational programming; electronic medical record integration; and robust clinical decision support tools.

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Physician Provider Primary Care 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

In a commentary published in Becker’s Hospital Review, Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD, co-CEOs of The Permanente Federation, explain why value-based care provides a blueprint for ensuring our health care system can deliver high-quality care to the growing population of older adults.

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Management 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional Management 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

MAY 1, 2025

A retrospective analysis of characteristics of 15 consecutive years of code stroke cases at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, found that patients who were ultimately diagnosed with migraine headache with aura (1.1%) were more likely to be younger, female, and have fewer vascular risk factors than patients with ischemic strokes.

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Primary Care Family Physician Clinical Practice Diagnose 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: COPD patient self-management plans, including rescue packs (antibiotic and steroid combinations), are effective in reducing respiratory related emergency department (ED) visits and hospital readmissions. Setting: Forty-two primary care practices in a regional health system in the Southeastern US.

Utilities 130

Utilities Education Management Healthcare 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and colleagues conducted a multicenter, retrospective cohort study across 30 emergency departments involving children presenting to the emergency department with anaphylaxis to calculate the incidence rate and timing of repeat epinephrine dosing. Dribin, M.D.,

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Patient-Centered Family Families Hospital 52

Logansport Memorial Hospital

APRIL 16, 2024

In that case, it’s important to contact your primary care provider not only to diagnose your condition but also to rule out other causes for your symptoms. Schedule an appointment with your primary care provider. Early Signs of Parkinson’s Disease If you’re experiencing one of these symptoms, there’s no need to worry.

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