Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation telemedicine tools have been proposed as an effective solution to optimize the care of the growing number of older patients with chronic conditions. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care is a main source for behavioral or mental health care provision in adults. Data suggests primary care settings may be an important place for mental health interventions, specifically for assessing and treating suicidal ideation (SI).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Mental Health Insurance Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Survey data from 50 Oregon primary care and emergency department sites Population Studied: 16,403 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries Intervention/Instrument: The CMS Accountable Health Communities study Outcome Measures: Positive screen for one or more HRSN: housing, food, transportation, utilities, safety.

Transportation 130

Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: We analyzed eleven interviews with primary care providers recruited from ABFM diplomates who completed a recertification exam in 2023. Analysis: All interviews were transcribed verbatim and analyzed utilizing NVivo software following an inductive content analysis approach.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families Patient-Centered 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Portable, Rapid, Low-Cost Testing According to the authors, the LIT system comprises a microprocessor-controlled device that utilizes an LCD user interface to control assay performance, automate assay analysis, and display results in a simple readout.

Diagnose 64

Diagnose Engineering Utilities Diagnosis 64

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most diagnostic tests are evaluated in secondary care (SC). The sensitivity and specificity of medical tests vary between primary care (PC) and SC settings. Study Design and Analysis: An individual participant data meta-analysis will be conducted.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Utilities Clinic Patients 130

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 14, 2025

Key Health Care Budget Proposals: Proposed Medi-Cal Cuts and Enrollment Changes Medi-Cal, California’s Medicaid program, is typically funded through a partnership between the state and the federal government. State-only Medi-Cal has allowed California to expand access to health care for populations excluded by federal policy.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Family Physician Management Individual 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

This study utilized data from the 8th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2019 and 2021 to investigate the relationship between OSA and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). High-risk individuals who were economically inactive, consumed alcohol, or engaged in low physical activity also showed a lower quality of life.

Physicals 52

Physicals Relationship Mental Health Individual 52

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How Family Physicians Can Help Address Food Insecurity Family physicians are often the first point of contact for patients, uniquely positioning them to identify food insecurity and connect individuals to vital resources.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Ultrasound and CTA can also be utilized to evaluate blood flow through vessels and narrowing of arteries. The only doctor who is an expert at all the treat-ment modalities is a vascular surgeon, and they can individualize the treatment for each patient to find the best solution.

Referral 40

Referral Hypertension Primary Care Utilities 40

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Lastly, Soo Borson is a self-described primary care leaning geriatric psychiatrist, developer of the Mini-Cog, and co-leads the CDC-funded BOLD Center on Early Detection of Dementia. What should we use to screen individuals? Eric 19:56 Okay, but I’m a primary care provider. Who should get it if anyone?

Screening 119

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 119

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

After extending your graduation date, the year can be utilized as a research year that can help you enhance your application and build further connections. In the event you are unsuccessful at extending your graduation date or securing an internship position, options for practicing medicine tend to become severely limited.

GP 52

GP Medical Student Insurance General Practitioner 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While preventable, many fail to receive timely treatment in primary care, leading the most vulnerable to accumulate complications. We used multilevel mixed effects models with a progressively expanding set of variables, including demographics (model 1), comorbidities (model 2), utilization (model 3), and quality measures (model 4).

Complication 130

Complication Diabetes Primary Care Utilities 130

The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

For the better half of 2024, I have been periodically writing posts that are individual articles that double as potential chapters to a future book. Before we discuss each individual savings account, let us first highlight exactly what it means to ‘automate’ your savings. Saving money is simple but not easy.

Finance 52

Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. All of these are factors that are on the individual level.

Community 115

Community Transportation IT PCP 115

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. David: Yeah. Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 122

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 122

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To assess dissemination and implementation of the Hmong Promoting Vaccines website within primary care clinics and school settings. Setting: 2 primary care clinics, 2 school-based clinics, and 2 school health education classrooms in the Minneapolis/St. number of new users, mean time spent on website).

Education 130

Education Clinic Community Primary Care 130

BMJ

MAY 10, 2022

Family physicians and family health workers, considered reliable sources of vaccine information, have a unique position where individuals in rural and urban areas can access frequently, uninterruptedly, cheaply, and easily [2]. Individuals over 65 years of age at home Yes 23 (65.7) 150 (54.3) p<0.001 Doctor 83 (65.9) 126 (45.7)

Vaccination 40

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Healthcare Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Despite these substantial needs, specialized palliative care beyond hospice is rare in nursing homes. Furthermore, only about half of nursing home residents nearing the end of life receive hospice care. So, how can we improve palliative care for individuals in nursing homes? What about specialty palliative care?

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

MARCH 7, 2024

Whenever I take care of a patient, I see myself as a family practice doctor, but I’ve been a hospitalist, I’ve been a primary care doctor, and I’ve done palliative. It sets space between us and the individuals we’re trying to take care of. I often say that doulas are mirrors. Alex: Yeah.

Provider 117

Provider Illness IT Healthcare 117

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Eric 08:45 Why did you choose that as a primary outcome? Fernando, what do you think?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

One thing I’m wondering about though is that we have all these wonderful services, and as we educate teams, both hospital medicine teams, primary care teams, palliative care teams about these services, there’s still that push to get people, if we’re talking about inpatient, get people out. Are there any tools?

Patient-Centered 132

Patient-Centered Hospital Patients IT 132

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. It was the first randomized palliative care trial in hematology, is the way that I think of it. So what did this one show?

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

New South Family Medicine and MedSpa

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

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Referral 40

Referral DO Family Medicine Primary Care 40

GeriPal

JUNE 9, 2022

We have palliative care who gets what, what goes, where. Alex: It gets very local and individualizes as you were saying. When you go to need, palliative care may be best for some needs. And I actually think the cool thing about a needs-based approach would allow us to better utilize the service. Kate: That’s right.

Consulting 99

Consulting Patient-Centered Diagnosis IT 99

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study aimed to investigate factors affecting insulin prescription patterns in individuals with T2DM. Study Design and Analysis: A cohort design using routine care data, we utilized Fine and Gray’s survival analysis to examine time-to-insulin initiation while accounting for death as a competing event.

Diabetes 130

Diabetes Primary Care Individual Management 130

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve.

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73