Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These are related to shaping healthcare supply to patients’ demand by 1) providing an individual assessment of caseload size to all physicians and nurse practitioners (professionals with whom patients are affiliated; and 2) reinforcing communication in the appointment scheduling process.

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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. Objective: To identify and prioritize nursing activities for chronic pain management in primary care by adopting nurse and patient perspectives.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Outcome Measures Definition of Virtual Medicine, Ethical, Professional and Legal Obligations, Requirements that preceded Engaging in Virtual Medicine, Establishing a Patient-Physician Relationship, During and After Engaging in Virtual Medicine, Prescribing and Authorizing. Only the most recent published standards were used in analysis.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To understand if the pandemic resulted in changes in care for patients with diabetes. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description. Results: We identified 84,617 patients for the cohort study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Narrative synthesis of study qualitative and quantitative outcomes yielded three recommendations: 1) prioritize organizational supports as central to provider well-being, 2) cultivate positive patient relationships to facilitate provider well-being, and 3) develop a shared framework for understanding the well-being of PHC providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, much of the published research on dehumanization in the healthcare system is limited to the experience of patients, leaving that of nurses poorly understood. This feeling could be indicative of experiences of organizational dehumanization, a phenomenon receiving increasing attention in organizational psychology. Study Design.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: OHT health workforce, including primary care and its attributed patient population. Setting/Data sets: One OHT in Eastern Ontario, Canada. Seven federal and provincial data sets, including professional colleges. Intervention: The Integrated Primary Care Workforce Planning Toolkit was applied to one OHT.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients can perceive the following three characteristics of the services provided by community health service centers: services with high quality, integrated services, and services with "speed", and "warmth", which helps to improve their evaluation of the medical service quality and capability of such institutions.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Study Design and Analysis: A scoping review of reviews was conducted according to Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) methodological framework, completed by Levac et al. 2010) and adapted by Schultz et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 18, 2025

Dr. MedLaw: Since this is not a physician group being given part of a fee that you charged a patient that they referred, it would not be fee-splitting. MedLaw ‘s prior Q&A columns regarding how to decrease liability risk for on-call telephone consultations , and gaining patient consent during medical emergencies.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We all want to do the best we can for our patients, but frequently encounter a wall of resistance that prevents us from doing the best we could. It is clear that the challenges faced in providing optimal care in nursing homes are deeply rooted in systemic issues.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". To address ongoing challenges with patient access and attachment to a primary care provider, several Canadian provinces introduced primary healthcare centralized wait lists (CWL). In 2019, 14.5%

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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. Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits.

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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. with the latent variable, except patient experience with staff responsiveness to requests.

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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. Study Design: A cross-sectional analysis of patients and FPs in Ontario from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: High-utilizer patient populations reflect poor health for those patients and high resource use for health systems. Few studies of high-utilization patient programs found improvements in the intervention groups compared to controls. Patients in both groups averaged approximately 12 ED visits, 5.7

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CDOCS

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><em>Patient financing made easy with transparent payment options, competitive APRs, and monthly payment plans.</em></span></p> &ldquo;Any patient questions regarding payment plans are directed to us,&rdquo; Crean explained. &ldquo;Providers

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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.

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CDOCS

JULY 20, 2021

Here, Schweiger shares how LendingClub Patient Solutions offers these patients a no-nonsense way to move forward.</em></span></p> & Throughout her career, Kathy&rsquo;s emphasis has always been on providing great patient care and excellent customer service. .</em></span></p>

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CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

png]</p> <p><span style="font-family:ubuntu; font-size:12px">​</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">By putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients, we can easily see the comfort and trust our patients have developed with their general dentists.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Previous studies documented that the type of insurance coverage was associated with the likelihood of a patient receiving care through telehealth. The primary exposure was the percentage of Medicaid patients’ claims at clinic level. Dataset: Insurance claims submitted to APCD from April through December, 2020.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight management and includes modifications to the EpicTM medical record for guidance on treatment alternatives, support for provider-patient communication, billing and coding support, and a new visit type called a Weight Prioritized Visit (WPV).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We organized the comprehensiveness attributes into two domains: breadth of care (services, settings, health needs and conditions, patients served, and availability) and approach to care (one-stop-shop, whole person care, referrals and coordination, and longitudinal care).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Analysis of CMO configurations led to the refinement of an initial program theory developed with patient partners, clinicians, decision-makers, and academic researchers based on the Normalization Process Theory and the ExpandNet/WHO framework for scaling up. enhanced experience), health system (e.g. healthier communities).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Results: 36 family physicians described ways in which their income was impacted by identity, with factors grouped in three categories: patient population, philosophy of practice, and circumstances of work. For example, women physicians were likely to note that patients expected more time for counselling.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The qualitative phase consisted of focus group interviews exploring patients’ experiences and the impact of primary care functional features on health, with integration through meta-synthesis and joint display for meta-inferences. Setting: Primary care settings in Shanghai, China. 1.32), confirmed by instrumental variable tests.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Research has shown that in some locations, primary care services were able to resume and recover to pre-pandemic visit rates for patients < 6 years old shortly after the initial lockdown in March/April 2020.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our findings suggest the need for policymakers and insurers to facilitate mechanisms to support broad SOP to meet patient needs. Understanding patterns of primary care SOP and delivery has implications for workforce and policy planning.

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My Green Doctor

MAY 29, 2025

With a network of over 1,300 physicians and 40+ patient care locations across New York City, Weill Cornell’s influence in healthcare delivery and education is far-reaching. Enhanced patient trust and education by modeling environmental responsibility in care settings. 8,500 new users joined in 2023.

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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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

By understanding their insights on psychiatric care, we hoped to recognize their successes with patients and address the challenges they face more effectively. Additionally, five major themes emerged regarding barriers in delivering care: finance, infrastructure, staff shortages, limited community connections, and delayed care.

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Permanente Medicine

JUNE 23, 2025

But there is still much to be learned about how and why it benefits patients and health care systems. We are dedicated to the mission of improving the health of our patients and communities. The pursuit of value-based care has long been a clarion call for strengthening the American health care system.

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Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

I’ve written blogs that discuss my perspective on why Direct Primary Care (DPC) is helpful to both patients and physicians in Columbia, SC (and beyond!). patients feel heard and valued. patients feel supported, both in our office and between visits. patients feel supported, both in our office and between visits.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

MARCH 7, 2025

Mid-Year Formulary Changes (HF 1652/SF 1806): Seeks to prohibit health insurers from making mid-year changes to their drug formularies, ensuring stable access to prescribed medications for patients. Healthcare Access Fund (SF 1572): Proposes an assessment on health plans to support MinnesotaCare and Medical Assistance programs.

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Physician's Practice

JUNE 23, 2025

From AI scribes that promise to slash documentation time to “plug-and-play” patient-engagement portals, vendors descend on medical practices with glossy decks and tight trial deadlines. The health technology gold rush is back on, and sales reps know where to find you. Yet a single misstep can wipe out months of margin.

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