Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Outcome Measures: The number of eConsults by PCP and type of eConsult sent. Top utilizers were defined as PCPs with ordering volume in the 75th percentile. 1,087 unique PCPs ordered at least 1 eConsult across 28 specialties.

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Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study aesign and analysis: Multilevel linear probability models used to test the association between primary care utilization and geographic accessibility of primary care providers (PCP) after controlling for demographic characteristics, medical conditions, rurality, and neighborhood-level racial and economic segregation. PP; p=0.017).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Utilities PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine.

Education 130

Education Primary Care Physician Primary Care DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes including decreased utilization of ER services and lower costs for some populations. This effect grows to 23% lower costs for patients 85 or older.

PCP 130

PCP PCP ER Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Live discharges may be problematic if they lead to high rates of hospice readmissions, high rates of hospital utilization following discharge, or occur after 180 days in hospice. Coordination of PCP follow-up was done for 13% of discharged patients and 22% had documentation of at least one step of the discharge planning process (e.g.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Utilities PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Outcome Measures: Emergency department utilization, hospitalization, steroid prescriptions, and primary care provider (PCP) utilization. Design and Analysis: Patients were evaluated for 6-month pre/post. to 0.24, p=0.28).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

PCP 130

PCP PCP Finance Nurse Practitioner 130