Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. The goal of ECHO Pain is to educate, support, and improve chronic pain and opioid management in Ontario’s rural, remote, and underserved areas.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The Transitional Care Management (TCM) clinic visit is a uniquely billed visit type to review a recently discharged patient’s hospital course, reconcile medications, and continue ongoing workup. Intervention: A team was created with an attending physician, care coordinators, and front office staff.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context With buprenorphine prescribing restrictions lifted, primary care physicians (PCP) are frequently the first contact for patients who have opioid use disorder (OUD) and require treatment with buprenorphine. Study Design A behavioral health curriculum was designed for second year residents.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. The qualitative descriptive approach was used to analyze focus group discussions.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

APRIL 16, 2025

CFHA represents thousands of professionals across the country who are implementing integrated care —the coordination of medical and behavioral health care in primary care and specialty settings. It offers care where people already are: their doctor’s office, their community mental health clinic, their OB/GYN’s exam room.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Asthma is a prevalent chronic disease that is difficult to manage and associated with marked disparities in outcomes. 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

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

It was a call to reimagine, reinvent and reinvigorate primary care. Many of the comments were saying that Direct Primary Care is the solution to today’s primary care crisis. There are a few problems with primary care today. So this was a hot topic and two years later it’s still hot.

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Primary Care Insurance Diagnose Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e., teaming) was described as essential across sites, as it promotes care quality (e.g., Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis.

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Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

Canadian Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

Objective Administrative burden contributes to the current primary care crisis. This critical review of the literature explores how primary care administrative burden is discussed, including how it is defined and what drivers and solutions have been identified.

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Primary Care Screening Electronics Patients 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Weight loss is desired by many patients, but many primary care practices struggle to provide this care. PATHWEIGH is an integrated approach to support primary care practices in delivering evidence-based weight loss care to patients as part of regular health care.

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Primary Care Management Electronics Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Hypertension is a common condition seen by primary care clinicians and is more common in Black adults than other racial/ethnic groups. Setting: Two health care systems in New York City. Outcome measures: For the primary analysis, use of the 5’As with Black patients and correlates of interests.

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Hypertension Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner 130

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

In the mid-1990s, the American Medical Association confidently predicted that the penetration of managed care would lead to a large "physician surplus" and convinced Congress to cap the number of graduate medical education (GME) positions subsidized by the Medicare program. Kenny Lin, MD, MPH Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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Family Medicine DO Families Family 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. The organization now employs a single psychiatric nurse practitioner for medication management. No counseling is offered.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

We should no longer be debating whether or not having health care insurance is better than not having it. What we should be discussing is why health care costs keep climbing so rapidly, which leads directly to higher premiums and the proliferation of high-deductible policies that make accessing care unaffordable even for the insured.

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Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Lifestyle Medicine (LM) is an evidence-based approach to prevention and treatment of chronic disease by addressing six pillars: physical activity, nutrition, sleep and stress management (recovery), connection, and substance use. Objective To assess patient perceptions of a primary care-based LM clinic.

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Clinic Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 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. Given practical constraints in many healthcare settings, who are the minimum essential team members for multidisciplinary management of weight loss in older adults?

Management 52

Management Primary Care Physicals Telehealth 52

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Scorecard with National and State Level Data Reveals Workforce Shortages, Low Primary Care Reimbursement, and Reduced Patient Access to Vital Services February 18, 2025 – As the nation faces a widespread surge in chronic diseases, the third Primary Care Scorecard highlights how systemic disinvestment in U.S.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

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.

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Patients Primary Care Appointment Electronics 130

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.

Screening 130

Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Paul, a direct primary care physician here in the Detroit, Michigan. I've seen firsthand the challenges people face when it comes to accessing quality mental health care. That's why I'm excited to talk about how direct primary care can offer a solution. This means they can provide personalized care and support.

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Primary Care Mental Health Primary Care Physician Healthcare 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Considering that effective teamwork develops over time and that the activities of primary care nurses are largely dependent on team functioning, highlighting what best promotes effective teamwork from their perspective could contribute to a better understanding of how to support team-based primary care.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Management Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In countries like Canada and Australia, which have been experiencing high rates of opioid-related harms, there have been many calls to increase involvement of and improve OUD care in primary care. specialists, social workers), thus providing care continuity.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Chronic Disease Management Government Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Cost is a critical consideration in weight management, but cost conversations can be challenging for clinicians to initiate. Practice members from 57 primary care practices in one Colorado health system who participated in the PATHWEIGH study.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Finance Insurance Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To promote early management of frailty, we developed an electronic Frailty Index based on deficit accumulation in a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (eFI-CGA) from electronic health records. Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP).

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective The primary aims of this study are to (1) Explore the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of clinical staff who are participating in healthcare activities that address health inequities, and (2) Develop recommendations for healthcare institutions engaging in HE work to minimize harms and maximize benefits to clinical staff.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Management Screening 130

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Look up conferences for private practice or direct primary care to learn more. Logistical example: Or ”How would I get my current practice to consider aggressively pursuing and influencing the powers that be toward value-based care?” Look for primary care leaders who have recorded them.

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Private Practice Primary Care IT Education 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 1, 2025

Primary care doctors don’t usually have scheduled blocks of time to read incoming reports, refill prescriptions, answer messages or, what we are told the future will entail, manage their chronic disease populations. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication. Compare this with air safety.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Hypertension Canada recommends home blood pressure monitors (HBPM) for diagnosing and managing hypertension. However, 29% of HBPMs are inaccurate by 10 mmHg or more. This makes determining HBPM accuracy of great clinical importance, but there is no established method of doing so in the office. Population Adults who own a HBPM.

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Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. DPC can be offered as an optional benefit, providing a convenient, preventive care solution that removes the common deterrents to seeking care.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

member login CONTACT US About Us Concierge Medicine Services Our Physicians Locations Member Login Contact Us L Orthopedic Pain Management: When to Skip the Specialist January 21, 2025 Orthopedic pain management is a guessing game. Knowing where and how to get treated is challenging. Say you’ve sprained your ankle ice skating.

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Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These tests are primarily evaluated in secondary care (SC) before they are introduced into primary care (PC). Setting or Dataset: Primary care. improving management), and "Feasibility" (e.g. Context: It takes an average of nine years to develop new diagnostic tests. Consensus was determined at 70% agreement.

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Primary Care General Practitioner GP Clinic 130

Logansport Memorial Hospital

MARCH 4, 2024

Logansport Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the opening of a new pain management center on April 1, 2024. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center will be located at 1201 Michigan Avenue, Suite 70, Logansport, IN 46947. The Logansport Memorial Pain Management Center is now accepting new patients.

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Management Patient-Centered Community Referral 52

The Direct Doctors Difference

AUGUST 9, 2023

” Sounds a lot like Direct Primary Care, doesn’t it? There is no offer for any long term follow-up (which is what most medical conditions require to be safely managed!). To find out how we practice primary care differently, check us out at www.directdoctors.org. Upfront pricing. Or does it!?

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Primary Care Clinic Diagnosis PCP 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

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

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

They enrolled Colorado primary care practices interested in CGM and allowed them to either adopt the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Transformation in Practice Series (TIPS): CGM implementation modules or refer individuals to a virtual CGM initiation and education service led by a primary care multidisciplinary team.

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Primary Care Diabetes Family Physician Referral 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design: The NOSES (Nasal Steroids, Nasal Irrigation, Oral Antibiotics and Subgroup Targeting for Effective Management of Sinusitis) trial is funded by PCORI. Setting & Population Studied: Six primary care practice-based research networks (PBRNs) recruited adult patients with ARS.

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