Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) is a promising method for improving the healthcare system and responding effectively to changing patient needs. Champions in CQI refer to individuals who lead or facilitate such initiatives, and they seem to be a key ingredient in promoting quality improvement in Primary healthcare Clinics (PHC).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. Outcome Measures: Interview questions and analysis were guided by five CFIR domains (innovation source, inner and outer setting, individuals, and implementation process). Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e.,

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dataset: We conducted a qualitative study utilizing the Database of Individual Patient Experiences (DIPEx) methodology - a time-tested, research-based approach for conducting and disseminating health and healthcare experiences. For challenges, Latina women reported the need to experience more trauma informed care by providers.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Multiple chronic conditions (MCC) the most common condition seen in practice are present in 33% of adults and 80% of individuals age > 65. The apps also collect patient reported data on goals, social needs, and functional status. The mixed methods evaluation includes focus groups, user testing, and surveys.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

JUNE 12, 2025

We offered trauma-informed support and helped newly displaced individuals connect with health and community resources. We must understand how the current policies impact access to care and identify policy-related barriers faced by our patients and families. Key Principles for Success Center patient voice in every phase.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 19, 2025

These measure the basic functions of one’s body, helping clinicians assess the general health and recovery progress of patients. Recently, a new trend has emerged where artificial intelligence (AI)-based apps are detecting vital signs as well as possible illness indicators from patients’ faces alone.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Electronic risk assessment and communication may enhance screening and prevention, but patient perspectives are understudied. Elevated-risk individuals in Arms 2/3 were referred to genetics/screening services. Study design and analysis Our approach was informed by the Theoretical Framework of Acceptability.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 12, 2025

Given the complex interplay among these functions, gathering patient perspectives on those core functions seems key to effectively operationalizing and measuring them. Patients experience primary care firsthand, offering valuable insights into the accessibility, scope, coordination, and continuity of services. ” 4.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT: Existing therapies for chronic low back pain (CLBP) are suboptimal, and many patients resort to opioid therapy. DESIGN/ANALYSIS: This multisite, pragmatic, stakeholder input-informed, randomized controlled trial (RCT) compared CBT and MBT in opioid-treated CLBP. Qualitative interviews augmented the quantitative data.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

We didn’t need technologies to be able to differentiate between patients based on coughs, as primary care physicians have been doing that for centuries. These could even make cough monitoring as common as step tracking to inform individual patients and provide doctors with deeper health insights.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information. Setting: Community-based. Some comprehensibility issues were addressed in a modified version.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

Patients with hidradenitis suppurative seek advice online, highlighting unmet needs in clinician-patient education regarding daily self-management strategies. For clinicians treating patients with HS, the findings may inform more tailored patient engagement. Vaidyula and colleagues in Cureus.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

WHO grouped these determinants into contextual, individual, and group influences and vaccine/vaccination-specific issues. Education and Information Education and information about vaccines can improve vaccine uptake if there is a significant knowledge gap and if the education is culturally and linguistically appropriate.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyze focus group and individual interview data. professional organizations, patients, participation in a perinatal quality collaborative) and shifting their L&D culture from a physician- or protocol-centric model to a patient- and team-centric model (e.g.

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Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement is intended to clarify and inform all members, partners, and the public regarding CFHA’s organizational stance on MBC. MBC is a clinical process that includes repeated measurement to monitor treatment progress and to inform collaborative treatment planning over the course of care. (1) What is MBC? 3, 5, 6) b.

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Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. As a breast cancer health clinical care nurse navigator, Chelsea not only serves as a registered nurse at NMC, but also as a patient advocate, guiding individuals through the complexities of the healthcare system. “I More information means more choices.”

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. Methods The study included individuals aged 75 to 90 years, diagnosed with diabetes or hypertension, who were treated with at least one antihypertensive, or antidiabetic medication in 2017.

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A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 8, 2025

Think about it… A patient note, like a scientific article, should not present the information in reversed or scrambled order. In many ways, EMR office notes are created so automatically and by more than one individual, that the author’s (clinician’s) logic can be elusive when you read the note.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. The CUBAT includes all these variables and provides example language for providers to use with patients,” the authors wrote.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) is a 9-item self-administered instrument used for detecting depression. Individual data was obtained from 1408 participants using an informed consent form followed by a 1 question survey (see appendix), which asked on what basis the participant filled out their PHQ questionnaire.

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Canadian Family Physician

MARCH 18, 2025

Methods Initially a deductive analysis was conducted using a framework for categorizing 3 different levels of social accountability (individual patient [micro], community [meso], and system [macro]). A reflexive thematic analysis guided the inductive process.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Food and Drug Administration has approved Dupixent (dupilumab) for the treatment of adult patients with bullous pemphigoid. Patients with moderate-to-severe bullous pemphigoid were randomly assigned to receive Dupixent 300 mg (53 individuals) or placebo (53 individuals) added to standard-of-care oral corticosteroids.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals with schizophrenia who are admitted to academic medical centers (AMCs) has not been previously reported. Objective: To examine the epidemiology and mortality among schizophrenia patients discharged from AMCs in the U.S. from Oct 2019 to Dec 2023.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Neither delivery of electronic nudge letters nor letters to general practice increase uptake of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), according to a study published online June 7 in Circulation. Kristoffer Grundtvig Skaarup, M.D.,

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Vida Family Medicine

JUNE 28, 2024

One of the most rewarding parts of being a primary care physician is when I am able to work with a patient to help them find answers to unexplained symptoms they have been dealing with, sometimes for years! As a result, doctors often end up referring the patient somewhere else if they do not immediately know the answer.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

These individuals have total cholesterol counts exceeding 240 mg/dL, which increases their risk of heart disease. Study Methods The researchers selected 469 patients for inclusion in this study. They evaluated the patients using the Dutch Lipid Clinics Network (DLCN) criteria. of those with a score of 6-7 and 85.7%

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported.

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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. These volunteers were individually interviewed about their experiences with current clinical approaches and barriers they face in delivering care.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Preferred over central catheters due to their easy insertion, short procedure time, reliable intravenous access, and high patient satisfaction rate, more than 2.5 Most studies (n=60) addressed individual interventions, while 14 addressed bundle/multimodal interventions.

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Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

JANUARY 24, 2025

There is endless contradictory nutrition advice from strongly opinionate individuals out there (anyone take a deep-dive into the evidence of coconut oil – a plant based oil with lots of saturated fat?), Progress is about small, consistent steps over time—just like we remind our patients. It just needs to work for you.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Karst — Listing patent information in the Orange Book is a matter of judgment, but that judgment call is about to get a bit more scrutiny. Thus, “FTC intends to use its full legal authority” to take action “against companies and individuals that improperly list patents in the Orange Book that do not meet the statutory listing criteria.”

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Recent research showed that ICU statin therapy was associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis. Statin use is associated with significantly lower 28-day all-cause mortality for critically ill patients with sepsis, according to a study published online in Frontiers in Immunology.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Family Medicine (FM) and NAPCRG champion involving patients and communities in research. Clinical practitioners, patients, and community representatives increasingly make major contributions to primary care (PC) research. Panels can be created for individual studies or continue for institutions or programs.

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Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Sources of information Individual articles published mainly in the past 2 years, found using PubMed and Google Scholar. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD. Main message Steatotic liver disease is one of the most common diseases encountered in general practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population studied: Key informants involved in the implementation: people with complex needs (n = 2), managers (n = 17), hospital case manager (n = 1), case managers in primary care clinics (n = 14), project managers (n = 2), physicians in charge of participating clinics (n = 4), and other healthcare professionals (n = 2).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

A final set of four prognosis groups were suggested using a single regression tree-based model utilizing the most informative predictors with data-driven biomarker thresholds. A total of 599 children were included; 205 (34 percent) reached the primary outcome of CKD progression. The C-statistic increased from 0.76

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Dermatology, easily documentable through patient-contributed images, presents an ideal case for innovative dataset creation. Study Design and Analysis: We employed Google Search ads to gather dermatology images from the public, with informed consent, between March and November 2023.

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