Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

HB 86 – Rural Hospital Investment Fund Bill What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, HB 86 proposes the establishment of a Rural Hospital Investment Program in Alabama, which would serve as a conduit for financial support from the public directed towards rural hospitals in the state.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We invited all of the people who are touched by the opioid crisis (addicts, family members of addicts, the faith based community, law enforcement, public health officials, county commissioners, EMS personnel, physicians, hospital representatives, the legal community, etc.) County governments are struggling to manage the opioid crisis.

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Sound Physicians

MARCH 12, 2025

With the absence of intensivists on the ground in these community hospitals, the question becomes how to treat these patients where and when they need care. Our tele-ICU program , which is part of our critical care specialty, has brought meaningful and much-needed intensive care to remote communities for the past five years.

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Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

LIKE MOST HOSPITALS , Veterans Affairs facilities across the country track admission delays, the amount of time it takes to move a patient who’s being admitted out of the ED and into an inpatient bed. Key takeaways: Admission delays from the ED can adversely affect mortality, length of stay, medical errors and quality of care.

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StorytellERdoc

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Several years ago, my daughter Emma introduced me to some videos on YouTube of a dermatologist from California who posted her sometimes shocking but always intriguing encounters with patients who suffered from a variety of dermatologic issues. Eewww, gross," Emma said. Let's watch it again!" Suddenly, my job as an ER physician was boring.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. - Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Much has changed in the past six years since our last Health Policy Journal Club at Georgetown. I stepped down as director of the Robert L.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 14, 2025

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in people experiencing a heart attack is a time-dependent medical emergency requiring immediate cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

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Sound Physicians

APRIL 28, 2025

While we’ve earned our reputation over the decades for our clinical excellence in hospital medicine , we’ve also earned — somewhat unfairly — a reputation for being more expensive than our competitors. Not all contracts are created equal As CEO for Hospital Medicine , I’ve heard a version of this story time and again.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals. The complex dynamics of human systems driving Super-utilization lack prominence.

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NPR Health

MARCH 14, 2025

already faced shortages in its health care workforce, then the pandemic spurred even more doctors and nurses to retire or leave hospital jobs. Filling those vacancies is a challenge. Image credit: Natalie Krebs)

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Hospitals write discharge summaries to family medicine providers. Though patients/carers are often copied in, they seldom get a plain English version or space to discuss its contents.

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Medical Xpress

MARCH 28, 2025

An Australian-first study demonstrating the effectiveness of a new immunization against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) for babies found it to be almost 90% effective in reducing hospitalization rates and helped more than 500 WA families avoid a hospital stay.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 23, 2025

It’s used in the hospital more often than in outpatient care. Acetylcysteine is an old drug with two major uses. Orally it can lessen liver toxicity from acetaminophen (paracetamol) overdose. Inhaled, it is a powerful mucolytic (loosens phlegm for people with lung disease). A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

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Today's Hospitalist

MAY 16, 2025

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. ’ ” Follow-up after SNF discharge As Mr. Nieukirk explains, Puzzle Healthcare follows every single patient who is discharged from an OSF hospital to a SNF.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

We’re already doing it in places like community health centers in New Mexico, rural clinics in North Carolina, and urban hospital systems in Chicago. We’re already doing it in places like community health centers in New Mexico, rural clinics in North Carolina, and urban hospital systems in Chicago.

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NPR Health - Shots

JANUARY 30, 2023

It turns out the doctors who cared for her worked at a different, out-of-network hospital. A family had more than $12,000 in medical bills they couldn't explain after their baby was delivered early. Image credit: Taylor Glascock for KHN)

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 28, 2025

He completed his Internal Medicine training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital from 2015-2018 accompanied by a focus in Medical Education. Dr. Caruso is now one of nine physicians at Heart Specialists of Sarasota to offer CCP’s Hybrid Choice. The patient decides what’s right for them.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Population: Thirty-six residents from UTSW, Parkland, Children's Hospital, and Texas Health Resources were surveyed. Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Most practices were clinician owned solo or group practice (n=13), followed by hospital or health system owned (n=6). Context: Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is now considered a standard treatment option in diabetes care. Results: 23 practices enrolled in virCIS (21 referred patients; 19 had patients enroll in the study).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82). Context Data visualization is useful to contemporary methods designed for clarity and communication of information.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Regional human resources and population health data was collected from multiple data sources including federal, provincial/territorial, regional, and hospital/primary care levels, along with surveys to all providers. Descriptive analysis was conducted for quantitative data. Qualitative data was analyzed used thematic analysis.

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Adventures of a Sick Doctor

JANUARY 27, 2025

For the moment, I am delighted to keep working with the wonderful people in the National Screening Service, while the wonderful people in the Mercy University Hospital are still working to keep me alive and well. Collectively, the various gunks that they administer to knobble cancer are called Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment, or SACT.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: A hospital-based clinic in Montreal, Canada. Objective: To describe patient and service-related outcomes of the I-Score intervention and outline adherence barrier management by physicians. Study Design Analysis: 6-month one-arm implementation pilot study.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: Three PC practices (two private and one hospital-based) in the High Plains Research Network and the Colorado Research Network in rural Colorado. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice. Population Studied: PC clinicians and staff.

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A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 5, 2025

Because of the severity of his pneumonia, the hospital did a chest CT on him, so when he got the call about his appointment for the abdominal CT I had ordered, he told them he didn’t need it because he already had one. He was nominated for the Nobel prize several times but was never awarded it. He thought one CT covered everything.

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Louisville Lectures

APRIL 1, 2022

Dr. Redman is affiliated with University Of Louisville Hospital and Robley Rex VA Medical Center. Rebecca Redman presents "Cancer Doesn't Discriminate. or Does It?" by first reviewing racial and ethnic differences in cancer incidence and outcomes. She then explores initiatives to address cancer disparities. Learn more here.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

o Context or Objective: The UK is witnessing an increase in emergency department use and hospital admissions for children and young people from underserved populations, exacerbated in the UK by continued issues around access to primary care.

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NPR Health - Shots

MARCH 3, 2023

Sick children overwhelmed hospitals this past fall and winter, exposing vulnerabilities in the nation's ability to care for its youngest during a crisis. Image credit: John Moore/Getty Images)

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Concierge Choice Physicians

JANUARY 21, 2025

He went on to complete his residency, chief residency and fellowship in Cardiology at The Ohio State University Hospitals. Dr. Archer is now one of nine physicians at Heart Specialists of Sarasota to offer CCP’s Hybrid Choice. The patient decides what’s right for them. For more information, please visit www.ccpmd.com.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. Six years ago, I wrote the essay below about an article I read in the New England Journal of Medicine. Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits.

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KevinMD

JUNE 21, 2025

It was early morning—likely the first appointment of the day. The music in the waiting room had not even been turned on yet, and the smell of coffee was just beginning to meet the air.

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NPR Health - Shots

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sick kids are crowding emergency rooms in parts of the country and some pediatric hospitals say they're running out of beds. Image credit: Christophe Ena/AP)

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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. Intervention: 10-year follow-up to track T2D outcomes.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 11, 2023

Five medical organizations say it is essential that hospitals establish antimicrobial stewardship programs to prevent Clostridioides difficile (C. These infections, linked to antibiotic use, cause difficult-to-treat diarrhea, longer hospital stays, and higher costs. difficile) infections.

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Concierge Choice Physicians

MARCH 24, 2025

And, in response to patient demand, concierge care is growing every day, especially in large medical groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations. Many seemed to blame physicians as much as insurers and the government for everything they experience as wrong in healthcare, from long waits to Covid-19. The in-between is becoming impossible.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 17, 2025

We’ve all been through this as a kid and childhood memories stick with us, just recalling this might send a shiver down your spine. No one likes to go to the dentist although everyone knows how crucial oral health is and how strongly it is connected to our overall health. For patients, it promises more accurate care and better outcomes.

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