Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We used information gathered from site visits and team meetings to understand how Compass Rose was being utilized across sites. Setting or Dataset: We used data from Epic on social needs screening and Compass Rose utilization. Of those patients with an episode (i.e.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: We conducted a qualitative study utilizing the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology - a time-tested, research-based approach for conducting and disseminating health and healthcare experiences. For challenges, Latina women reported the need to experience more trauma informed care by providers.

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Healthcare Provider Healthcare Experience Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.32) and hospitalizations (aIRR 1.14, 95% CI: 1.03-1.27).

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Primary Care Management Utilities Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Objective: To use an iterative, community-engaged process to inform the development of the publicly-available HTAC dashboard. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Shared Health Research Information Network (SHRINE) offers rapid, secure access to aggregate counts of patient data from participating hospitals. Healthcare research involving patient medical data is often delayed by lengthy approval processes. Data underwent quality assessment to ensure reliability of subsequent analyses. Conclusions.

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Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

During the session, the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians actively represented the interests of its members on a range of healthcare initiatives. These funds could be utilized for various purposes, including direct care, operational expenses, and facility maintenance or upgrades.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: By investigating the utilization of primary care resources, the authors hope to assess the efficacy of current approaches, better inform future public health initiatives, and improve health outcomes in this medically marginalized community. Population Studied: AI/AN patients residing in the USA.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design We sought information on policies for research-related transportation across the HBCD study sites. In addition, information on liability insurance and protections was sought. Data on five policy domains identified as key to research-related transportation were extracted from each existing policy and summarized.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The DASH is now housed on SharePoint and is utilized weekly to document project progress and share opportunities of funding or professional development. These results correlate to the observational collected data during weekly meetings that suggests 16 LV-PCBRN members are actively engaged in the development and utilization of the DASH.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Intervention: Coach McLungsSM, a health information technology solution designed for primary care, engages patients, caregivers, and providers in shared decision-making about asthma. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03

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Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context UT Southwestern utilizes community engagement strategies to improve health and integrate stakeholder priorities in clinical care and research. Next steps include a soft launch during which we will solicit feedback from researchers and partner organization members of our community health coalition, which will inform further refinement.

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Community Utilities Relationship Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusion Clinicians generally lack the time to prioritize patient messages. Future research should explore the efficacy of collaborative inbox workflows for time-savings and efficient management of patient messages as well as how to best implement these workflows with diverse teams.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A retrospective cohort study design was utilized to assess changes in A1c levels over the course of one year pre-enrollment and one year post-enrollment, comparing enrolled and not enrolled patients; a mixed effects interrupted time series model was employed for analysis.

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Primary Care Diabetes Referral Integrated Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This community-based participatory study explored factors influencing older adults’ choices not to use HCBS to inform development of interventions to strengthen service utilization.

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Community Patient-Centered Utilities Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

1,2 4 Setting Mayo Clinic Health System (MCHS) - Southeast Minnesota (SEMN) River Corridor Family Medicine (FM) Department – 40 total prescribers. Knowledge gained from the initial PDSA cycle was used to inform a subsequent PDSA cycle. Dissemination of monthly peer comparison reporting via email was continued for APPs only.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings. However, virtual visits were utilized when circumstances prevented in-person visits, and patients welcomed a more pro-active approach from the clinic in scheduling virtual visits in those circumstances.

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Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Data for this investigation were sourced from a community-based approach, utilizing information from CHS, which integrates data from community sources and hospitals. Setting: Community-based study using Clalit Health Services (CHS) data.

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Complication Diabetes Chronic Disease Individual 130

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Proposed Changes to Prescription Drug Coverage Prescription Drug Utilization Management- Implements utilization management and prior authorization for prescription drugs. PBMs must also submit detailed drug pricing data to the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI). million total funds ($1.46

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Healthcare Family Physician Management Individual 204

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

Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment. Qualitative interpretation and analysis involved representatives from each stakeholder group.

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Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) adopted a resolution (policy guidance) in 2024 related to addressing food insecurity in Minnesota. Family physicians play a pivotal role in combating food insecurity, serving as trusted advocates for their patients and connecting them to essential food resources.

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Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". Outcome measures: Perspectives and experiences from unattached patients on the utility of the CWL. In 2019, 14.5% of Canadians (approximately 4.6 Instrument: Semi-structured exploratory qualitative interviews.

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Primary Care Finance Nurse Practitioner Patients 130

AMMD

JUNE 12, 2025

With the influx of herbal supplements and health information out there, it can be overwhelming to figure out what is best for you. Without adequate Vitamin A, your body may struggle to utilize the thyroid hormones it produces(2), even if your lab values look “normal.”

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IT Utilities Complication Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting. It gathers contextual information on physical, cognitive, mental, and social health, and generates an automated summary report of potential vulnerabilities. Study design: A qualitative descriptive study design was utilized.

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Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition 130

Medical Xpress

MAY 3, 2023

Genetic testing for hereditary cancers, such as breast, colon, pancreatic, and ovarian cancer, helps at-risk individuals understand their familial risk for these diseases and make informed decisions about next steps in care.

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Referral Utilities Individual Family 98

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: We explored how to design a system to provide near real-time feedback on context and impacts to inform health system innovations; and how to operationalize data collection across diverse patient populations and providers. Study Design and Analysis: We used a mixed-method complexity-informed methodology.

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Referral Healthcare Provider Utilities 130

Oasis Family Medicine

JANUARY 31, 2024

While we have had neurofeedback therapy available at Oasis Family Medicine since 2017, it is always our goal to offer the most up-to-date therapies available. It may be utilized as the primary treatment approach, or as an adjunct to other therapies. I went on a year-long search for a new (and hopefully better) neurofeedback system.

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Utilities Diagnose DO Family Medicine 52

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

MAY 1, 2025

We have the chance to support each other by breaking the stigma, utilizing local and federal resources, and better recognizing the signs and symptoms. The South Dakota Department of Health offers online information about mental health. If you have any questions or would like more information, contact the Center for Family Medicine.

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Mental Health DO Family Medicine Education 52

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

Participants were recruited via social media, provided informed consent, and their voice biomarker results were compared with a self-reported Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) at a cut-off score of 10 (moderate to severe depression). 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

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Primary Care Screening Mental Health Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative study involving key informant interviews over two years. to complete an analysis of qualitative data collected from primary care clinician and staff perspectives on the use of anti-obesity medications. using thematic analysis.

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Primary Care Electronics Provider Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These measures can inform a recommendation of core access measures that can standardize the evaluation of PC access and provide researchers and federal agencies a framework for common comparison across studies and facilitate coordinated efforts to improve access to PC. Measures were further categorized into 13 access domains.

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Primary Care Insurance Utilities Relationship 130

Family Physicians of Greeley

JUNE 16, 2023

By empowering yourself with knowledge and resources, you can make informed decisions about your healthcare and alleviate financial stress. This knowledge will help you make informed decisions when seeking medical care and avoid unexpected out-of-pocket expenses.

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Insurance Healthcare Patients Provider 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: This retrospective case series analysis utilizes Vizient’s clinical database data. Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023.

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical Illness 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Early identification and intervention in behavioral aspects of chronic diseases leads to improved function with decreased healthcare utilization, yet we know little about referral patterns for behavioral support of chronic disease. Our work builds a foundation for cost-effective workflows to support patients with multimorbidity.

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Referral Chronic Condition Medical Chronic Disease 130

Permanente Medicine

MAY 20, 2025

These priorities include supporting the physician workforce, utilizing data and predictive interventions to improve patient outcomes, and boosting quality and affordability for patients. Contributing to this challenge is the exponential growth of information, an expanding population of older adults, and office visit documentation. .”

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Patient-Centered Patients Medical IT 52

East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Utilize health check-ups as an opportunity to discuss any stress, anxiety, or emotional struggles you may be facing. Embracing the habit of scheduling periodic check-ups can lead to a proactive approach to healthcare, empowering you to take control of your life and make informed decisions about your well-being.

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Preventative Care Preventive Care Mental Health Healthcare 52

PEMBlog

AUGUST 30, 2023

Numerous studies have found that radiographs performed in these clinical conditions rarely reveal information necessitating a change in ED management despite high CXR utilization and wide variation in both children’s specialty hospitals and general EDs. Evaluation of the utility of radiography in acute bronchiolitis.

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Asthma Electronics Utilities Clinical Practice 52