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. Objectives: 1.Apply

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Finance Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada.

Finance 130

Finance Telemedicine Relationship Government 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Sickle cell disease (SCD) was identified as one of our hospital's most common causes of readmission. We noted that a small number of patients are readmitted multiple times. This indicates poor quality of life (QOL) for SCD patients and a high financial burden on the healthcare system.

Finance 130

Finance Medical Patient-Centered Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Deaf experience many barriers when accessing health care and services. A growing number of research has been published on the subject, but the Deaf community remains underserved in health care and under-represented in health research.

Finance 130

Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Chronic pain stands as a leading cause of disability globally, with patients often reporting inadequate access to primary care. Relevant primary care nursing activities for CP management remain poorly defined, limiting the full utilization of nurses' competencies and expertise in chronic disease management.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Chronic Disease Management Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Access to primary healthcare services is a core lever for reducing health inequalities. The ability to reach and engage in the care process varies considerably depending on patients’ socio-demographic characteristics which we need to understand to address inequitable access issues.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Clinic Chronic Condition Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community health services constitute the cornerstone of China's primary healthcare system. Since the recent healthcare reforms, significant strides have been made in the development of community health services across the country.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Management Finance Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Objective: We assessed adoption, impact on time spent in orders, and clinician perceptions of a comprehensive set of nested order panels (xOrders) for adult primary care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Utilities Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Understanding patients’ experience accessing primary health care (PHC) is necessary in order to move toward better service organization and more equitable PHC access.

Nurse Practitioner 130

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance 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. There is evidence that this move away from comprehensive primary care is occurring among physicians in all stages of their career.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Families Family Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Canada, most diabetes care is provided within primary care. Primary care experienced challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as reduced access to care. Objective: To understand if the pandemic resulted in changes in care for patients with diabetes.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Finance Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Patient advocacy groups engage patients, families, and caregivers in navigating the cancer landscape, focusing on early detection/screening, as well as psychosocial and financial support during treatment. As these groups have grown, they have major influences over their communities, funding, and policy.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Finance Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context 2-1-1 is a designated phone help line in Canada and the US that provides referrals for individuals to local government and community-based services for a wide variety of needs, including social, health care, and mental health services. 2-1-1 Nova Scotia has operated since 2013 as a nonprofit that offers 24/7 assistance.

Referral 130

Referral Mental Health Finance Community 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

The post Q&A: How to Avoid Finance Regulatory Claims first appeared on Physician's Weekly. Any views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) and/or participants and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy, or position of Physician’s Weekly , their employees, and affiliates.

Finance 52

Finance Referral Internal Medicine Consulting 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Its domains include Service Delivery, Workforce, Financing, and Leadership and Governance o Setting or Dataset o Population Studied: The study is set in Sparkbrook in inner-city Birmingham (UK), one of the most ethnically diverse and poorest areas in the UK with high levels of deprivation and unemployment.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Finance Family Practice 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Effective AI adoption depends on strong stewardship, investment in resources, and ongoing collaboration to support development and monitoring. Investigators concluded that successful integration of AI into PHC required coordinated efforts across stewardship, financing, and resource generation to support equitable and effective service delivery. (..)

Primary Care 97

Primary Care Screening Finance Diabetes 97

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Government controls the overall financing and regulatory requirements which have two divergent consequences on the sector, constraining overall resources while simultaneously imposing resource intense operational requirements. This invariably results in levels of resource constraints with detrimental consequences for staff and residents.

Finance 130

Finance Management Government Physicals 130

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A study exploring how increased digitalization since the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted finance management for people with dementia and their caregivers is published today.

Finance 75

Finance Management 75

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 25, 2023

The peer-reviewed research paper that was published today in The Lancet Global Health is from the annual Financing Global Health report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington's School of Medicine.

Finance 75

Finance 75

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.

PCP 130

PCP PCP Finance Nurse Practitioner 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensiveness is a central element of primary care and family medicine but has not been clearly and consistently conceptualized in literature. The lack of an encompassing framework for comprehensiveness reduces our ability to measure and evaluate its presence and impact in primary care delivery.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Finance DO Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Telehealth became an essential tool to assist care delivery in the outpatient primary care settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth.

Telehealth 130

Telehealth Primary Care Finance Insurance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cost is a critical consideration in weight management, but cost conversations can be challenging for clinicians to initiate. Most studies of cost conversations rely only on participant recall methods rather than on recordings of actual conversations, limiting our understanding of how these conversations occur.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Finance Insurance Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Community-based residency programs (CBRPs), which are defined as Teaching Health Centers (THCs) and programs with Rural Training Track (RTTs), produce physicians that are more likely to practice in rural and other underserved areas. Further, most family medicine residents remain within 50 miles of their residency graduate location.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Community Finance Primary Care 130

NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 10, 2023

Close to 40% of surveyed Americans, a record high, put off medical care last year because of finances. Americans are delaying or skipping doctor's visits, dental and vision care, and medications. Image credit: Stephanie Colombini/WUSF)

Finance 136

Finance Medical 136

The Motivated MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Though I adhere to commonly agreed upon personal finance advice such as living ‘like a resident’ and well below your means, if you are overly frugal, you will deprive yourself of the enjoyment that is deserved when your income grows. Expensive Hobbies The last culprit I commonly see pressure finances are expensive hobbies.

Finance 52

Finance Insurance Individual IT 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary healthcare is the front door to the health system, facilitating access to diagnostic testing and specialist care. Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". In 2019, 14.5% of Canadians (approximately 4.6

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Finance Patients 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.

PCP 130

PCP PCP ER Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with multiple chronic diseases, mental health comorbidities, and/or social vulnerabilities, may have complex health and social care needs (hereafter "complex needs"). Appropriate care for people with complex needs calls for integrated care programs that include providers from primary care and other health and social services.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Finance Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

What Happened: The Senate Committee on Finance and Taxation Education did not meet to discuss the bill. The updated tax credit seeks to incentivize physicians to serve in underserved rural communities, addressing longstanding healthcare disparities and bolstering access to medical care for Alabama’s rural residents.

Insurance 130

Insurance Family Physician Hospital Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: People living in precarious socio-economic conditions are at greater risk of developing mental and physical health disorders, and of having complex healthcare and social needs (hereafter complex needs). Appropriate care for these people calls for integrated care from the healthcare, social services, and community networks.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Finance Integrated Care Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic created many barriers for clinicians to deliver primary care and for parents/caregivers to access primary care for their young children.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Finance Healthcare 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 22, 2025

LEGISLATIVE DEADLINES REACHED We came to the end of the legislature’s third deadline last week, which means all bills with a fiscal impact in each committee needed to be voted out and sent to the Finance Committee in the Senate and the Ways and Means Committee in the House. The omnibus bill includes many of the MAFP’s priorities.

Finance 52

Finance Telehealth Board-Certified Provider 52

NPR Health

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Republicans are proposing deep cuts to Medicaid to finance tax cuts and other priorities. Pushback is coming not only from Democrats, but also from hospitals that rely on revenue from the program. Image credit: J. Scott Applewhite)

Finance 111

Finance Hospital 111

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Nursing shortage is a major issue for healthcare systems. Primary and emergency care are no exception. Large scale nurse turnover is costly, is associated with both reduced productivity and poorer patient outcomes. Understanding of the reasons for nurse turnover has become a pressing issue.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Primary Care Finance Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Over the last decade, patient care experience in the emergency department (ED) has been subpar. Relationships and communication with staff, physical comfort, privacy, and accessibility influence the patient experience of ED care.

Finance 130

Finance Patients Relationship Physicals 130

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. Objective: To understand if increasing distances from patients to their FP are associated with changes in healthcare utilization and quality of care.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Primary Care Family Families 130