Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: This study aims to provide insights and strategies to foster the development of effective champions for CQI in PHC. Each case has been informed champion, change agent, peers and managers. The champion and peers targeted by the change were recruited to inform each case.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Clinic Individual Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Participants reported that ARC navigator provided informational, outreach and long-term emotional support that encouraged, motivated and empowered them in their journey to overcome access barriers. ARC: All (N=17) participants used navigation. Conclusion Findings suggest that SP in any form is beneficial.

Patients 130

Patients Community Patient-Centered Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: An exploratory single case study design with concurrent mixed-methods, including key informant interviews, publicly available data and surveys. Five data sources were required to describe the primary care workforce with an estimated 163 physicians, 33 NPs and 138 interprofessional providers.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Finance Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SDM involves a collaborative process between patients and providers to make informed healthcare choices. Coach McLungsSM (CML) is a pre-visit interactive, digital coaching experience that engages patients, caregivers, and providers in a tailored conversation about asthma and fosters SDM in creating a plan of care.

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Asthma Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Conclusion: COACH pre-implementation evaluation provided information that informed implementation and trial protocol changes and may increase the adoption of COACH. COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients.

Electronics 130

Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

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. The post A Call to Improve Readability of Patient Facing Trial Information first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered Clinic Individual 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Building patients’ and health professionals’ trust in health research includes responsibly sharing health information. Objective: To use an iterative, community-engaged process to inform the development of the publicly-available HTAC dashboard. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive.

Community 130

Community Healthcare Electronics Patient-Centered 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.

Medical 130

Medical Referral Screening Internal Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: A retrospective cohort of providers and its patient panel for two performance years, 2019 and 2022. Population Studied: We identified all providers that had at least 300 patients available in both 2019 and 2022 performance years. Hemoglobin A1C > 9.0 as a case study).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Diabetes Internal Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

Patients 130

Patients Primary Care Appointment Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare sites provide an opportunity to identify and respond to human trafficking (HT). 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.

Medical Student 130

Medical Student Education Medical Referral 130

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

JUNE 2, 2025

As a comprehensive guide to the match, this booklet provides reliable insight on professional development for all osteopathic and allopathic med students, guidance on choosing a specialty, and a deep look into the process of choosing and matching into a family medicine residency.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Medicine DO Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The objective of this study was to make explicit how occupational therapists provide self-management support to people living with chronic pain to highlight their specific contribution to primary care teams. Setting: Quebec, Canada Population studied: Occupational therapists providing chronic self-management support interventions.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

It provides immediate, non-stigmatized behavioral health support at the point of medical care, often in the same visit. It moves away from fragmented systems, provides alternatives to medication-only treatment paths, and leads patients to practical pathways for healing—whether for anxiety, diabetes management, depression, or addiction.

Integrated Care 130

Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary health care (PHC) is a whole-society approach to health and well-being, providing holistic care to patients across their lifespan. Setting: Canada Population Studied PHC patients, care partners, researchers, providers, policymakers, and trainees participated in each stage of the mapping exercise (N=45-52/stage).

Patients 130

Patients Holistic Care Government Education 130

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

AUGUST 28, 2024

Prior authorizations, a common practice requiring health care providers to obtain approval from insurance companies before proceeding with prescribed treatments or medications, has become a notable point of contention.

Insurance 130

Insurance Diagnose Provider Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Instrument: Participant and provider progress, satisfaction and feedback were elicited through questionnaires and focus groups. physical, social, emotional, spiritual and mental health information collected with well-being and lifestyle medicine tools, and anthropometric and cardiometabolic variables. gender, age, race, education, etc.),

Chronic Disease 130

Chronic Disease Community Hypertension Physicals 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. Population Studied 10 female primary care providers and 1 male providers. The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context The introduction of the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) test and the 2012 Cervical Cancer Screening (CCS) guidelines expanded the way providers offer and interpret screening for their patients. Also, more Black women reported being informed about the type of CCS they received. population.

Screening 130

Screening Utilities Patient-Centered Insurance 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

All three messages were false alarms, misleading missives, inadequate information or whatever you want to call it. In all three cases, one or two simple followup questions provided information that the prescribed treatments had actually worked fairly well. Difficile diarrhea.

Electronics 130

Electronics Medical Patients Provider 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake A recent systematic review provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for increasing vaccine uptake and indicates that multi-component interventions are more effective than single-component interventions.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Integrated Care Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

With the rising awareness of misinformation, there is concern about the sources of information Vietnamese Americans use and association with COVID-19 clinical trial participation. Objective: To investigate levels of trust in sources of information and correlate with the willingness of Vietnamese Americans to participate in SARS-CoV-2 trials.

Clinic 130

Clinic Government Community Hospital 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is clear that the challenges faced in providing optimal care in nursing homes are deeply rooted in systemic issues. While regulation is necessary, if it is too loose it fails to provide the necessary information of what is required, and if too tight, will prevent staff from adaptively delivering the needed care.

Finance 130

Finance Management Government Physicals 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings. In-person visits are preferred by patients, however, because of the direct interaction with their providers. Multiple patients also mentioned the importance of a clinic social worker in helping them overcome barriers to care.

Patients 130

Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Because people with MCC typically see multiple providers in multiple care settings often using different EHRs, critical information is difficult to obtain, leading to fragmented care, clinician and patient burden, and suboptimal outcomes.

Chronic Condition 130

Chronic Condition Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Leading not-for-profit healthcare organization in greater Los Angeles allows patients to choose a closer doctor-patient relationship ​ROCKVILLE CENTRE, NY – February 4, 2025 – Concierge Choice Physicians (CCP), the nation’s leading full-service concierge medical service provider, announces today that David M.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families Healthcare 130

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

Sponsored by Representative David Faulkner, the bill aims to provide more affordable health coverage options for farmers and self-employed agricultural workers who lack access to employer-sponsored plans. Key features of the bill include a 1.3% What Happened: The bill was signed into law by the Governor on 4/15/2025.

Insurance 130

Insurance Family Physician Hospital Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Identify facilitators and barriers of hospital stability to inform potential policy opportunities in rural Colorado. PubMed search resulted in over 500 articles published in the past 10 years, of which 120 offered relevant information, resulting in an annotated bibliography of 45 articles and pertinent organizational reports.

Hospital 130

Hospital Chronic Disease Healthcare Education 130

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. A single participant with severe loss of autonomy found Proactive less useful as it did not provide him with any new information. Setting: Community-based.

Screening 130

Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addressing mental health and HRSNs can improve diabetes outcomes, but stigma surrounding these issues can make both patients and providers uncomfortable during clinical discussions. Consequently, clinicians may avoid these stigmatized topics and provide general recommendations that can’t be followed by patients.

Mental Health 130

Mental Health Diabetes Relationship Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding health information seeking behavior is critical in providing effective interventions and improving quality of life for patients, especially for those facing complex health needs. The data was obtained from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey® (HINTS). Objectives. Conclusions.

Patients 130

Patients Families Family Government 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

If health systems strive to improve patient experience, and PC visits comprise most of the health care delivered in those systems, then the research informing this sector should be oriented to the needs of PC patients. In Ontario, Canada, more people access PC than any other type of healthcare.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patients Community Illness 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. Empower patients by establishing partnerships with legal advocates , collecting and sharing relevant legal information, and keeping them informed and up to date.

Community 130

Community Integrated Care Patient-Centered Families 130

Rao Doctor

MAY 25, 2025

By providing high-resolution images of the heart’s blood vessels, a CT-angiogram helps clinicians identify blockages, narrowing, or other anatomical abnormalities that may impede circulation and lead to cardiovascular events. It also offers improved speed and accuracy, making it a preferred choice for many healthcare providers.

Diagnose 130

Diagnose Healthcare Provider Healthcare Professional 130

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Our residency, formerly a collaboration with Providence Hospital, is now known as the Medstar Health/Georgetown-Washington Hospital Center Family Medicine Residency Program. However, it wasn't clear to us how easy it would be to apply this information, given that we usually need to prioritize patients on the schedule for that day.

Primary Care 130

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

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

In fact, cough accounts for one in five reasons we seek assistance from a healthcare provider. But one’s cough can provide insights for self-monitoring, and digital health advances have started to facilitate the cough-tracking process. Public health authorities could use this information to take adequate measures.

Patients 85

Patients Primary Care Physician Provider Healthcare 85

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation tools are considered a promising way to support health providers and older adults in identifying multiple and often complex needs. Objective: This study compared the perspectives of patients and providers using ESOGER, a novel multidimensional assessment tool for older adults.

Provider 130

Provider Primary Care Patients Consulting 130