Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital. 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.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Research from North America shows that a common reason for high emergency department (ED) use is the inaccessibility of primary care. Patient and visit-level data on gender, age, residence location, ambulance arrival, triage category, specialist consultations, ICD-10 discharge diagnosis, and hospital admission were analyzed.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Consulting Hospital 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Intervention: A team was created with an attending physician, care coordinators, and front office staff.

Appointment 130

Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82).

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Primary Care General Practitioner Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: Survey of medication review activities after primary care visits. Setting: One private primary care clinic and two clinics of a safety net hospital system that serves inner-city populations with significant socio-economic challenges.

Clinic 130

Clinic Medical Primary Care Insurance 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 Family Families Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital.

Electronics 130

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Northern New England CO-OP Practice and Community-Based Research Network (NNE CO-OP PCBRN) conducted an operational survey to gather insights from primary care (PC) practices across Northern New England (NNE). Data analysis included descriptive statistics and qualitative analysis of open-ended responses.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Telehealth Patient-Centered Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. in Year +1, and in primary visits was 0.7 (-0.6, in Year +1, and for hospitalizations was 1.2 (0.4, in Year 0 and 2.4 (-0.3, in Year 0 and 1.0 (-0.6,

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Utilities ER Patients 130

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Japanese researchers examined the association between primary care practice characteristics and total hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. They conducted a nationwide study and examined data from 1,161 participants ages 40-75.

Primary Care 94

Primary Care Hospital 94

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Setting: Primary care provider utilization was assessed among several patient center health outcomes. Design and Analysis: Patients were evaluated for 6-month pre/post.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Asthma Utilities Provider 130

The Health Policy Exchange

JUNE 24, 2013

At around the same time, a commentary by Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan advocated for a more expansive role for the NHSC in the 21st century, including options to practice community-oriented primary care, in urban hospitals, in public health, and in prison and international health settings. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Family Doctor Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation questionnaires designed to provide rapid assessments of the physical, social, mental and cognitive health of older adults may support effective primary care management and improved patient outcomes for this population. Study Design and Analysis: Multi-center, 1:1 individually randomized trial design.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Patient-Centered Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area. Across all discharges, 43% had at least one ED visit or hospitalization within 6 months of discharge.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Utilities PCP PCP 130

Logansport Memorial Hospital

JUNE 28, 2024

He is a primary care physician with a passion for providing full-spectrum primary care for his patients. Dr. Anderson-Been attended Ross University School of Medicine in Bridgetown, Barbados and completed his family medicine residency at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Indiana.

Primary Care Physician 52

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Medicine DO 52

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 26, 2025

A quick visit for a skin rash could land a high school senior in the hospital for a leukemia workup. Triage comes from the French word “trier”, which means “to sort” or “to select” Primary care is messy. A patient appointment for a physical could yield a cancer suspicion or diagnosis.

Appointment 130

Appointment Primary Care Screening Diagnosis 130

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.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Finance Family Practice 130

Today's Hospitalist

MAY 27, 2025

Bonuses by teaching status Academic hospitalists: $36,893 Nonacademic hospitalists: $44,123 Incentives by employer type Hospital/hosp. corporation: $41,271 Local hospitalist group: $79,000 Multispecialty/primary care: $60,935 Nat. Here’s an overview of incentive pay for different hospitalist groups.

Primary Care 95

Primary Care Hospital Patients Medical 95

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care General Practitioner GP Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To measure the impact on healthcare system utilization of an intensive primary care (IPC) service from 2019 through 2022. Setting: Safety net hospital/clinic system in Fort Worth, Texas. Population: 143 patients with 2+ hospital admissions or 4+ emergency department (ED) visits for medical indications in 6 months.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Finance Patients 130

The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Direct Primary Care movement has picked up steam over the last seven years since we started Direct Doctors in RI. According to DPC Frontier, a site owned by a DPC physician/lawyer who was a founder of the movement, there are now over 1500 clinics doing pure Direct Care across the nation.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Healthcare Insurance Government 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

At 30 days, mortality was 1.0%, Emergency Department (ED) visits were 6.9%, hospitalization was 6.6%, and NH admission was 4.0%. The HRQoL improved significantly at both 30 and 180 days [F (2,542) = 13.8, P < 0.001, η 2   = 0.5]. Frailty presence significantly predicted adverse outcomes.

General Practitioner 84

General Practitioner GP Primary Care Community 84

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset Participants were employed in 5 urban Colorado hospital-owned family medicine clinics. Population Studied Medical assistants working in primary care. Interviews were coded for relevant content to identify common themes. Intervention/Instrument Semi-structured interview guide.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Management Screening 130

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 3, 2025

Hospitalists with multispecialty/primary care groups came in at a close second: $380,088. Compensation for multispecialty/primary care groups rose by nearly $21,000, or 5.6%. Pay for hospitalists working for hospitals and hospital corporations, by comparison, rose by $12,659, or 3.8%, during that same period.

Primary Care 57

Primary Care Hospital Patients Medical 57

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.

GP 130

GP Hospital Family Medicine DO 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

MAY 13, 2025

Click here to read an article recently published on Becker’s Hospital Review for additional insight, or contact us at 877.888.5590 or answers@ccpmd.com. Your healthcare organization has a vital untapped resource: your patient relationships.

IT 100

IT Patient-Centered Healthcare Primary Care 100

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A new study has found that patients are increasingly likely to discuss mental health concerns with the doctor they often know best: their primary care physician.

Primary Care Physician 74

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Mental Health Healthcare 74

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 17, 2025

That’s partially due to the continued popularity of the seven-on, seven-off schedule in hospital medicine. Shift length by group type Hospital/hospital corporation: 12.2 hours Multispecialty/primary care group: 11.2 WHEN IT COMES to hospitalist shift length, 12 hours is still king for the specialty.

Primary Care 65

Primary Care Hospital Management Medical 65

The Direct Doctors Difference

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A recent article featured on the medical blog, www.Kevinmd.com , highlights some super important reasons as to why you might consider seeing a doctor who is not affiliated with a hospital or large system. As a small, direct primary care practice here at Direct Doctors, we wholeheartedly agree! His solution?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Hospital Referral 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 28, 2025

Though value-based health care exists in different flavors, the most successful recipe prioritizes preventive care, physician leadership, innovations that drive quality outcomes, population health management rather than episodic care, and collaboration between physicians, clinicians, primary care, and specialty care.

Primary Care Doctor 84

Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Patient-Centered Diabetes 84

Today's Hospitalist

JULY 1, 2025

Just over half (52%) of hospitalists in the Midwest, for example, work for hospitals or hospital corporations, which is on the low side in our survey. The Midwest also reported the second highest number of hospitalists working for multispecialty and primary care groups (10.5%), another practice model that tends to pay well.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Hospital Medical IT 52

Noreta Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An Escape Fire for Healthcare I recently watched a film, called “ Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare, ” a 2012 documentary about how the priorities in the US healthcare system are focused on increasing revenue, instead of on goals that improve health, like preventive care. minutes long.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Primary Care Family Medicine DO 52