article thumbnail

Redesigning Primary Care Workflows to Optimize Obesity Management

Physician's Weekly

The PATHWEIGH trial aims to embed structured obesity care into primary care, addressing barriers and boosting clinician confidence and patient outcomes. Barriers include time constraints, lack of training in obesity treatment, limited reimbursement, and the absence of structured care pathways.

article thumbnail

Performance-Based Reimbursement, Illegitimate Tasks, Moral Distress, and Quality Care in Primary Care: A Mediation Model of Longitudinal Data [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE We tested for direct and indirect effects that performance-based reimbursement (PBR) in primary care has on perceived individual and organizational quality of care, and the role of illegitimate tasks and moral distress as potential mediators.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Mapping Colorectal Cancer Screening Workflows in Primary Care Practices [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

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.)

article thumbnail

Clinician Insights Reveal Fatigue Care Gaps

Physician's Weekly

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.

article thumbnail

5 Essential Services Provided by Primary Doctors

Hitchcock Family Medicine

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

article thumbnail

Cough Monitoring Solutions: The Current Digital Health Landscape

The Medical Futurist

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.

article thumbnail

Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

How might primary care physicians coordinate this care in settings with limited specialist access? Some older adults may need access to a structured intensive behavior therapy delivered by a trained primary care clinician.