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.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

Based on the findings, of the 56 NCI-CCCs reviewed, 44 (78%) provided sufficient information for readability assessment. gov or required additional inquiries to access information. Specifically, scores across all metrics confirmed that the language used was overly complex and not patient-friendly.

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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants' comments while completing Proactive provided a qualitative assessment of the validity of the response process, and interviews assessed social validity. Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. Setting: Community-based.

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The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In fact, cough accounts for one in five reasons we seek assistance from a healthcare provider. 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. Public health authorities could use this information to take adequate measures.

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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. Providing incentives such as tying vaccination to insurance-related or public benefits or offering small monetary or non-monetary incentives can also improve vaccine uptake.

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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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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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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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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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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]). These values, which are consistent with social accountability, informed their choice to pursue medicine and family medicine specifically.

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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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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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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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Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Objective To provide an update on the most recent developments regarding diagnosis and outcomes of steatotic liver disease (SLD), review new nomenclature applied to SLD, and provide an approach to the diagnosis and management of SLD. Subtle differences are present among patients diagnosed with SLD.

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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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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Team-based models of care have become an integral part of the primary care system and is increasingly regarded as a key feature in achieving high-quality primary care by providing integrated, comprehensive, and continuous person-centred care. Only 4 indicators directly capture the individual contribution of IPC providers.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

A Collaborative Approach Between Health Care Providers and Community Partners Food insecurity affects thousands of Minnesotans, often contributing to chronic health conditions and overall poor health outcomes. M Health Fairview’s Fair Table program ensures convenient access to food during medical appointments.

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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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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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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Adults with complex needs require health and social services from a variety of providers, which can lead to frequent use of services. Results: Identifying patients targeted by the ICP was challenging. Better access to health information technology for case-finding was strongly recommended.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

For physicians, nurses, medical assistants, and support staff, workplace violence (WPV) is now a daily hazard, inflicting physical injury, emotional trauma, and eroding the quality of patient care. As The Pitt illustrates, unchecked violence in the ED leads to moral injury, staff attrition, and compromised patient care.

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state. Why Pursue Health Care Homes Certification?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The pooled cohort equations (used in the ASCVD risk calculator) are race-stratified equations that estimate an individual’s ten-year risk of ASCVD. Participants recognized increased ASCVD risk among Black patients, which they attributed to social and cultural factors.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 g/kg/d for someone who is starting at 75 kg (or 165 lb). This might look like 3.5

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This analysis was part of a larger implementation study called PATHWEIGH, which provides a toolset embedded in the EpicTM electronic health record and other supportive services to help practices provide weight management to their patients. We utilized AI tools in the qualitative software program Atlas.ti

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Ten percent of patients using prescription drugs experience adverse drug events (ADE). A proportion of these ADEs can be explained by a difference in enzyme activity between individuals. Intra-individual variation in genetic composition is one of the key contributing factors determining enzyme activity.

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California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

However, for individuals who do not qualify for federal Medicaid funding—such as most undocumented immigrants—the federal government does not provide matching funds, even when those individuals meet income eligibility requirements. The asset limit for a household would be $2,000 for an individual and $3,000 per couple.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting: De-identified EMR data from 1,574 primary care providers participating in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN). Population: 1,692,987 patients from seven Canadian provinces with a visit between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2021.

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FDA Law Blog

APRIL 10, 2025

While much of the focus has been on how these cuts may impact application review timelines and industry engagement, see earlier post about the effect on generic drugs, another quieter consequence is emerging a significant slowdown in the availability of information that FDA is required to produce under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

The insurer not only stopped paying current claims but also moved to claw back tens of thousands of dollars it had paid to providers in the two years since she turned 65. Some of those providers are now seeking payment from her. A UnitedHealthcare spokesperson declined to provide an on-the-record statement, citing safety concerns.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 26, 2025

Gavin Newsom has asked lawmakers to push the implementation date to January 2026, leaving patients, insurers, and employers in limbo. During IVF, a patient’s eggs are retrieved, combined with sperm in a lab, and then transferred to a person’s uterus. A single cycle can total around $25,000 , out of reach for many.

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BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. As impressive as these large numbers may be, the question that is less often asked is “How much of that big data is actually helping us do better?”

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Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 22, 2025

As we move into the eleventh week of the legislative session, Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians (MAFP) lobbyist Megan Verdeja breaks down what’s happening at the Minnesota State Capitol, provides an update on health care bills and shares what to expect next in the legislative session. and satisfied certain requirements.

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