Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

POPULATION STUDIED: Diverse stakeholders (PC clinicians, survivorship experts, policy leaders, oncologists, and patient advocates) were interviewed (n=45). CONCLUSIONS: Stakeholder developed strategies were prioritized to inform the development of a multi-component intervention to improve follow-up care in PC.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Prenatal care can be difficult for patients to accomplish, with frequent visits and time-sensitive health screenings. Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings. Semi-structured interviews of post-partum patients.

Patients 130

Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Therefore, we have developed Proactive, a self-administered screening questionnaire that enables older people to independently monitor their risk of functional decline. A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information. Objective: To validate Proactive.

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Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 21, 2025

Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits. I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point.

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Patients Patient-Centered Hypertension Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: 1) Test the virtual model of MLP to achieve more favorable economies of scale 2) Develop a policy-informed lexicon for MLP to inform model development, D&I research, and improve data sharing across models to ultimately advance sustainable state-based funding for MLP. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool.

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Medical Referral Screening Internal Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Patient messaging to providers has dramatically increased since the pandemic, leading to informatics efforts to categorize messages to facilitate more efficient review. Setting Video call and screen share via Teams. Conclusion Clinicians generally lack the time to prioritize patient messages.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We used information gathered from site visits and team meetings to understand how Compass Rose was being utilized across sites. We also assessed patterns of social risks and need for assistance among our patient populations. Of those patients with an episode (i.e.,

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Referral Community Transportation Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, mental health conditions and health-related social needs (HRSNs) can complicate patients’ success. Addressing mental health and HRSNs can improve diabetes outcomes, but stigma surrounding these issues can make both patients and providers uncomfortable during clinical discussions.

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Mental Health Diabetes Relationship Primary Care 130

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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Screening Patients Referral Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Training students to provide care and respond using a trauma informed approach can help ensure our healthcare sites are places of healing and not re-traumatization. Outcome Measures Trends in knowledge of HT, perceived confidence in caring for patients impacted by HT, and attitudes towards the training over time. Of these students, 97.5%

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Medical Student Education Medical Referral 130

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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Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context While poverty is a risk factor for many chronic conditions, when it is recognized by care providers social screening can be used to positively impact patients’ health. Population Studied The study collected data from family physicians, nurse practitioners, and adult patients of the clinic. Of screened patients, 94.4%

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Provider Clinic 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. Our Patients Are Already Using AI Many people now ask their first health question to a chatbot rather than to a clinician. Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

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.

Management 130

Management Screening Physicals Community 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

We may only have 15 minutes with each patient. In primary care it is often necessary to think in terms of including more than our area of interest in our mental picture of our patient. My system lets me choose whether to import everything or essentially nothing from the patient’s past medical history.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

Myriad Genetics

MAY 1, 2025

Enhancing Hereditary Cancer Screening at NMC Every day, every patient. Albans, Vermont can be screened for hereditary cancer risk if needed. I am empowering patients to help them improve their health,” says Mulheron. Understanding Hereditary Cancer Risk That’s why she started a screening program at NMC.

Patients 52

Patients Screening Patient-Centered Families 52

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.

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Screening DO Family Medicine Families 52

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

MDPCP is a multi-payer "advanced primary care" program modeled after previous patient-centered medical home projects such as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI) Comprehensive Primary Care initiative. Also, patients may not have a choice of specialists, depending on the insurer's network.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Margaret Greenough, a family medicine specialist in San Luis Obispo, CA, has opened a new medical practice offering patients the Concierge Choice FullFlex™ program. Most importantly, Concierge Choice programs offer patients peace of mind. Greenough’s practice is located at 4251 S. Higuera Street, #701, San Luis Obispo, CA.

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Family Medicine Specialist Medical DO Family Medicine 130

Myriad Genetics

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

We went through the pediatrician, the physical therapist, and none of those people brought up carrier screening. A carrier screen is a genetic test that looks at a couple’s DNA to see if they are carrying any genetic mutations that could be inherited by their baby. “We started asking questions because he still wasn’t walking.

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Screening Family Families Diagnosis 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. Popay et al.’s

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Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

Less invasive options like prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screens can also be used to help identify the microdeletion. According to a study in Genes (Basel) , cfDNA screens have “a 70–83% detection rate and a 40–50% positive predictive value (PPV) for most associated 22q microdeletions.” We observed 100% PPV. DiGeorge syndrome (22q11.2

Screening 52

Screening Patient-Centered Diagnosis Healthcare 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Two focus groups were conducted with experienced clinicians and researchers acting as key-informants on the subject. Occupational therapists were considered to have a major role in preventing fragility because of their competencies to screen for risk factors and provide early interventions.

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Primary Care Family Medicine DO Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Improved interpretation and management of syphilis screening results after intervention Results: Survey questions assessing knowledge had variable performance with net poor discrimination after the educational intervention. Post-hoc power analysis for appropriate versus inappropriate diagnosis and management was very low (2.7% respectively).

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DO Family Medicine Screening Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for CRC in adults aged 45 to 49 years (grade B), all adults aged 50 to 75 years (grade A), and selectively offering CRC screening in adults aged 76 to 85 years (grade C). We further eliminated respondents if they were missing data on any of the variables in the study.

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Provider Screening Medical Patients 130

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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Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Based on title and abstract screening, 228 articles were retained for full-text screening; 136 were ultimately included in the analysis. Synthesis Most articles focused on perspectives of physicians (72.8%), followed by those of other primary care clinicians (14.7%) and patients (12.5%).

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Screening Electronics Patients 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

medical assistants) to deliver high quality cervical cancer screening (CCS). Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research informed IDI guides. Objective: To assess CCS knowledge and current practice among FQHC PCPs and staff.

Education 130

Education Screening Patient-Centered Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study examined current tobacco screening practices and clinician, staff, and health system leaders’ perceptions of facilitators and barriers to addressing parental tobacco use during pediatric visits among racially and ethnically minoritized parents in one health system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Clinic Preventive Care 130

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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives. Setting or Dataset: A tracking document used to manage the social needs screening and referral system.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Adding genetic testing to clinical familial hypercholesterolemia screening improves risk assessment, prognosis and helps to guide targeted therapy. Study Methods The researchers selected 469 patients for inclusion in this study. They evaluated the patients using the Dutch Lipid Clinics Network (DLCN) criteria.

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Screening Family Families 52

Permanente Medicine

MAY 28, 2025

At Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States, patients live 6 to 8 years longer than the national average. And Kaiser Permanente’s systemwide, long-term focus on high-quality care through population health management has helped improve Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) measures, such as in diabetes care and more.

Primary Care Doctor 84

Primary Care Doctor Patient-Centered Primary Care Diabetes 84

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. Still, it is estimated that only 4% of primary care patients are screened for depression. 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Mental Health Utilities 130

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Through food pharmacies, food insecurity screenings and innovative community partnerships, health care providers are ensuring patients get the nourishment they need to thrive. Encourage Healthy Eating Through Vouchers: Many clinics and systems have voucher programs in place to help supplement food for patients.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Family Families 52

Myriad Genetics

OCTOBER 8, 2024

New FDA guidelines require that all breast imaging facilities must alert patients by letter if they have dense breasts, and provide recommendations that they contact their care provider for follow-up and risk assessment. Your patients want and need this screening.”  Go to Get MyRisk to learn more.

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Screening Management Families Family 52