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. Cognitive behavioral (CBT) and mindfulness-based (MBT) therapies are safe and evidence-based for chronic pain, but their long-term effects have not been well-studied in opioid-treated CLBP.

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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

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Individuals with complex conditions—those with multiple physical, mental, or behavioral health conditions--require numerous health and social services that are not effectively co-delivered by the current healthcare system.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Utilities Illness Healthcare 130

Center for Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

Safer Solutions For Lasting Relief Living with chronic pain can be exhausting, especially for individuals in rural areas who may struggle to access regular care. Finding ways to manage pain that are both effective and sustainable is possible. Finding relief requires practical, adaptable strategies that can be managed at home.

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Management Patients Healthcare Patient-Centered 52

Edge Family Medicine

JANUARY 9, 2025

As a leading family medical practice in Upland, CA, we champion evidence-based approaches that empower patients to take control of their health. Lifestyle medicine is a patient-centered, evidence-based approach that treats the root causes of chronic diseases. It leverages therapeutic lifestyle changes to improve health outcomes.

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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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Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

The PATHWEIGH trial aims to embed structured obesity care into primary care, addressing barriers and boosting clinician confidence and patient outcomes. In addition, behavioral and lifestyle interventions, which are foundational to long-term weight management, are difficult to coordinate within the confines of short primary care visits.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Study population were patients having one or more chlamydia and/or gonorrhea infections between 2018 and 2022 identified with a confirmed, positive test result from the electronic medical records. Intervention/Instrument: Key patient characteristics such as race/ethnicity and social determinants of health were considered.

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Primary Care Families Family Utilities 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 11, 2025

A recent study offers recommendations on how to balance weight loss goals and bone health concerns in weight management programs for older adults. First, to meet protein needs, patients can be counseled to include 30 grams of high-quality protein sources at each meal. g/kg/d for someone who is starting at 75 kg (or 165 lb).

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Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

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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Education Patients Management Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare providers often struggle to treat patients with chronic pain. One potential solution is to facilitate patient access to programs that develop skills and confidence in managing their own care. Dataset: We used data routinely collected through the CPSMP between December 2017 and May 2023.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Developing innovative approaches to prevent or manage age-related health problems and disabilities is a public health priority. Population studied: Individuals aged 65 years and older recruited in primary care clinics or senior residences. Objective: To validate Proactive. Setting: Community-based.

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Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

The Health Policy Exchange

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. electrocardiogram) and would pose safety risks to patients if they malfunctioned.

Chronic Disease 130

Chronic Disease Family Medicine DO Hypertension 130

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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Diagnosis Management General Practice Hypertension 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Family physicians' pivotal role in prevention and crisis management exposes them to mental stressors due to the highly demanding circumstances. This can potentially compromise their ability to provide optimal patient care. Context: Catastrophes (e.g., pandemic, etc.)

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Family Physician Mental Health Family Families 130

Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. Blood pressure is logged as two figures, such as 120/80 mmHg.

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Management Medical Treatment Plan Family Medicine 52

Imperial Center Family Medicine

JUNE 9, 2025

Effective blood pressure management requires taking the appropriate medicine as prescribed by a healthcare professional and implementing appropriate lifestyle changes. However, the correct treatment plan can help you manage your blood pressure and reduce complications. Blood pressure is logged as two figures, such as 120/80 mmHg.

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Management Medical Treatment Plan Family Medicine 52

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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Physicians Alliance of Connecticut

MARCH 15, 2025

More than 38 million Americans live with diabetes, a chronic disease that can lead to serious complications if not properly managed. If you’ve been diagnosed with either type, you may wonder how to manage it, and whether or not there’s a cure for diabetes. How Diabetes is Managed There are many components of diabetes management.

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Diabetes Management Chronic Disease Complication 52

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

Our board-certified physicians and nurse practitioners develop individualized prevention plans that address your specific health needs and concerns. Regular preventive care helps our Mesa patients address these regional health concerns proactively, leading to better outcomes and reduced healthcare costs for our community.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

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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Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

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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Patients Primary Care Physician Provider Healthcare 85

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 10, 2025

This trend is likely to equally impact healthcare leaders, and they will have to manage a new type of collaboration. In a healthcare context , an AI agent could run through prescriptions, identify any adverse effects based on the patient’s history, make adequate changes and order the appropriate drugs.

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Healthcare Management Appointment Patients 71

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 She doesn’t hear “no” too often.

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Patients Screening Patient-Centered Families 52

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 20, 2025

Maria Ansari, MD, FACC, and Ramin Davidoff, MD “Older patients … with multiple health conditions underscore the challenge of delivering compassionate, scalable, and affordable care to the aging U.S. “Caring for these individuals requires a fundamental shift in how we practice medicine.” Ansari and Davidoff.

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Chronic Condition Primary Care Patients Management 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 13, 2025

In the past decade, advancements in technology have revolutionized the way diabetes is managed. With all this progress comes a significant issue burnout for patients and clinicians. The daily grind of monitoring blood glucose levels, adjusting medications, and managing complications can be exhausting.

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Diabetes Healthcare Professional Nurse Practitioner Healthcare 52

Newnan Family Medicine Associates

JUNE 12, 2025

Life is not always easy for individuals who experience chronic diseases. Long-term illness can cause patients to be irritable and exhausted. Medical conditions such as asthma, hypertension, diabetes, chronic kidney diseases, and liver cirrhosis can require extensive treatment and care to prevent fatal.

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Chronic Disease Management Asthma Hypertension 40

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

The following is a summary of “Physicians’ experiences of assessing and supporting fatigued patients in primary care: a focus group study,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Primary Care by Samuelsson et al.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Individual 52

Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Managing Type 2 diabetes requires more than just medication—it demands a long-term partnership with a skilled healthcare provider who understands your individual needs. Choosing the right diabetes doctor can make a major difference in how effectively your condition is managed, your quality of life, and your long-term health outcomes.

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Diabetes Board-Certified Management Internal Medicine 52

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. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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Clinical Practice Healthcare Professional Healthcare Experience Screening 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 14, 2025

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to examine the outcomes and natural history of asymptomatic renal stones managed by observation following RC and UD. They reviewed individuals referred for RC and UD between 2015 and 2023 at a single center. The mean stone burden was 4.5 mm (SD ± 2.75).

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Complication Patient-Centered Individual Management 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 21, 2025

Sleeve gastrectomy most effectively enhances transplant eligibility and survival in morbidly obese ESRD patients, with dual GLP-1/GIP agonists as a viable alternative. They applied a Markov state transition model to assess the effectiveness of 3 weight loss strategies in individuals with morbid obesity and ESRD.

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Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

For some individuals with advanced kidney disease, dialysis may not be the optimal treatment strategy for their condition, and these patients may be better served with conservative non-dialytic management that focuses on quality of life and symptom control.

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Management Hospital Patients Individual 65

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Students also recorded patients’ concerns and expectations, which were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. The results showed that 523 cases were collected from 53 GP practices. Most cases (82%) were managed entirely within the practice.

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General Practitioner GP Telemedicine Primary Care 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

It should not be used as an individual measure of health. › To confirm excess adiposity, clinicians should directly measure body fat or evaluate patients for at least one anthropometric criterion in addition to BMI. Excess adiposity can be assumed in patients with very high BMI (>40 kg/m2 ) without additional confirmation.

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Healthcare Professional Clinic Diagnose Diagnosis 52

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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Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional Management 130