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Enhancing Advanced Access in Primary Healthcare: Key Change Strategies from a Quality Improvement Initiative [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Timely access is crucial for high-quality primary healthcare delivery, yet remains a pervasive challenge globally, including in Canada. year Quality Improvement initiative aimed at enhancing AA in multidisciplinary primary healthcare. Objective: To delineate key change strategies from a 3.5-year

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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Population Studied Adult patients scheduled for in-person or telehealth visits between 01/2019-06/2023. remain between 15-30%, costing $150 billion annually. for CA, 0.85

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. What does the doctor do first?

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When to Go to a Doctor for Chest Congestion: At-home Care vs. Medical Attention

Doctor On Demand

When to use telehealth for chest congestion Use telehealth, also known as virtual care , for chest congestion when symptoms are mild to moderate and you need medical advice, prescriptions, or a treatment plan. With telehealth, you can quickly get an initial evaluation, prescriptions, or follow-up care.

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Telehealth vs In-Person Palliative Care: A Podcast with Joseph Greer, Lynn Flint, Simone Rinaldi, and Vicki Jackson

GeriPal

In one corner, weighing in at decades of experience, well known for heavy hits of bedside assessments, strong patient-family relationships, and a knockout punch of interdisciplinary collaboration, we have in-person palliative care consults. Eric 01:08 On the other, we have the young upstart telehealth delivered palliative care.

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Psychological Issues in Palliative Care: Elissa Kozlov and Des Azizoddin

GeriPal

Widera and Smith have no relationships to disclose. Panelists Elissa Kozlov and Desiree Azizoddin have no relationships to disclose. ” So there’s this combination of it’s hard to build that insight or it’s maybe not as common as we as providers think it is. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) â„¢.

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Plenary Abstracts at AAHPM/HPNA: Yael Schenker, Na Ouyang, Marie Bakitas

GeriPal

Like, would you include the doctors that I work with, healthcare providers where I live in Marin? And then I’d also imagine from a quality of life perspective, like a one time visit by a palliative care provider, I can’t imagine it really significantly improving quality of life unless there was robust like the symptom.