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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Occupational therapists play a central role in supporting patients in the adoption and daily use of pain self-management strategies and in learning how to adapt to their chronic condition to maintain their quality of life. Necessary healthcare services to manage chronic pain remain difficult to access in primary care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 18, 2025

This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

At Mesa Family Physicians, we’ve observed that patients who understand this connection often experience better health outcomes. Your body is the vessel that carries you through life’s journey. When you prioritize your physical and mental health, you’re investing in your future well-being and quality of life.

Mental Health 100

Mental Health IT Family Physician Physicals 100

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context When it comes to advanced directives, research has shown that providers should initiate the conversation for their patients, however completion rates for these conversations are very low. It is important to decrease these barriers for providers, so that patients are able to benefit from these conversations.

Medical Student 130

Medical Student Education DO Family Medicine 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

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes. 32% (n=11) reported patient satisfaction with telemedicine transitions. We aim to highlight educational gaps for future pandemic preparedness.

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Telemedicine Education Telehealth Mental Health 130

Joy in Family Medicine Coaching

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Prioritizing your well-being makes you more efficient, effective, and present. This benefits not just you but also your family, friends, colleagues, staff, and patients. This is for good reason: investing in your well-being produces significant returns! The new year offers a clean slate, but so does each and every new morning.

Physicals 130

Physicals Family Medicine DO Family 130

Mere Mortal MD

JUNE 15, 2025

“Sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior that enslaves you and keeps you from being present in life.” Exactly five years ago today I decided to stop drinking alcohol. In part, it was because I was very depressed, burned out from my job, and existentially unhappy. But it was also because I had a drinking problem.

Mental Health 189

Mental Health Relationship IT Community 189

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 31, 2025

However, as Pirsig argues in his book, focusing solely on the mechanical aspects of any practice—be it fixing a motorcycle or treating a patient—risks losing sight of the human element that gives the work its meaning. This presence transforms routine care into something meaningful for both patient and practitioner.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Patients Diagnose Physicals 130

A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 3, 2025

Patients have been seen on time, my office notes have been completed in real time and my superbills have been submitted before each patient reached the check-out station. Every day I walk the fine line between well oiled efficiency and letting patients take the time they need to tell their stories. Things were really humming.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Clinic 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 8, 2025

Think about it… A patient note, like a scientific article, should not present the information in reversed or scrambled order. Think about it… A patient note, like a scientific article, should not present the information in reversed or scrambled order. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication.

Electronics 130

Electronics IT Medical Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

However, trust continues to be limited to a binary view (present/absent), which is problematic given its dynamic and temporal nature. Objective: To understand the evolution of trust in an Irish PHR partnership –‘the public and patient involvement (PPI) research network.’

Community 130

Community Relationship Individual IT 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In previous studies using MEDICODE, attitudes or emotions (A/E) were coded as present/absent. However, present/absent coding limited interpretations of this important component of patient experience. 4) Reported psychological distress level was measured post consultation with the patient distress thermometer.

Consulting 130

Consulting Medical Patients Relationship 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CONTEXT Primary care (PC) is well-positioned to address rapidly evolving public health priorities and research meaningful to patients and other stakeholders. Research training is rate-limiting. Funding opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral training exist in the US, including T32 programs.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 12, 2025

The FamilyPso questionnaire revealed caregiver burden among partners and family members of patients with psoriasis, which could bolster shared decision making. The burden of psoriasis extends beyond the patient to the caregivers who help to manage day-to-day symptoms. Disease Severity Of the 559 caregiver participants, 59.4%

Patients 52

Patients Patient-Centered Family Families 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

Smith, a general internist and professor of medicine and psychiatry at Michigan State University, explains why our medical system consistently prioritizes physical over emotional health and presents some ambitious proposals for how to rectify this harmful disparity. In Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? and the suffering that they cause.

Mental Health 52

Mental Health IT Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

According to a recent study published in the J ournal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology , CDH remains poorly understood, yet has significant implications for AF prevention, and avoidance strategies may be highly effective, especially for patients whose AF is otherwise idiopathic. and “In which patients is it most effective?”

Physicals 72

Physicals Primary Care Patients IT 72

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Describe primary care clinicians’ perspectives about managing hypertension in Black patients and assess the use of the 5 A’s Behavior Change Model (Ask, Advise, Assess, Assist, and Arrange) and shared decision making (SDM) processes. Study Design and Analysis: Cross-sectional study. All p-values are two-tailed.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In the post-discharge period from hospital acute inpatient care, the older patient is at risk from a lack of joined-up care. Though patients/carers are often copied in, they seldom get a plain English version or space to discuss its contents. A subset of ~24 patients/their carers will be interviewed.

GP 130

GP DO Hospital Family Medicine 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 8, 2025

Motivational interviewing is an effective tool for resolving ambivalence in parents or patients who express hesitancy about vaccination. Communication Strategies Using the presumptive format for initiating vaccine communication (“Johnny’s due for three shots today”) as opposed to the participatory approach where an open-ended question is used.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Healthcare Professional Integrated Care Healthcare 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. Study Design and Analysis: We conducted a secondary data analysis of EHR data which include n=10,279,755 encounters among n=278,406 unique patients.

Relationship 130

Relationship PCP PCP Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Adults presenting to US primary or urgent care sites with a chief complaint of cough and at least one other systemic or respiratory symptom consistent with LRTI. Results: Of 718 patients with complete baseline data, 618 had valid PCR results and of those 443 were followed until symptoms resolved.

IT 130

IT Patients 130

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. They have remained independent and committed to caring for patients as a small practice, all the while introducing new ideas and setting new standards in Michigan’s Great Southwest.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Family Families Primary Care 52

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

JULY 24, 2024

During her time at Auburn University, Randall demonstrated her expertise as a Laboratory/Phlebotomy Assistant at the university’s medical clinic, where she honed her skills in patient sample collection and analysis, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Medical Student 130

Medical Student DO Family Medicine Family Physician 130

CDOCS

MARCH 15, 2021

png]</p> <p><span style="font-family:ubuntu; font-size:12px">​</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:ubuntu">By putting ourselves in the shoes of our patients, we can easily see the comfort and trust our patients have developed with their general dentists.

Patients 52

Patients Finance Education Utilities 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Data from patients and clinicians on the self-reported prevalence of well water use in the American Midwest and their knowledge regarding testing for arsenic and the risks of long-term exposure. Dataset: Questionnaires for clinicians and patients via emailed surveys.

Patients 130

Patients Routine Screenings Provider Internal Medicine 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

Research shows that most children presenting to the emergency department with an acute allergic reaction requiring epinephrine can probably be safely discharged after 2 hours. The patients ranged in age from 6 months to 17 years (median age, 7.9 of the patients required an additional epinephrine dose after 2 hours. years); 43.9%

Patient-Centered 52

Patient-Centered Family Families Hospital 52

StorytellERdoc

JULY 10, 2014

Several patients with chest pain (one requiring immediate catheterization), two patients with respiratory distress (one from skipping dialysis and one from a COPD exacerbation), and three patients from a motor vehicle collision presented almost simultaneously to our ER. I originally wrote this piece in December, 2010.

ER 100

ER Emergency Room Family Doctor Illness 100

StorytellERdoc

AUGUST 7, 2020

The other set of eyes, darker brown and magnified by her gold-stemmed glasses, belonged to my patient, a woman in her early-sixties. Worse yet, a patient sometimes will keep on talking to someone else in the room and behave as if we haven't even entered. Extending my hand, I introduced myself first to my patient, Ms.

Hospital 100

Hospital Patients IT Provider 100

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Leonard Calabrese, DO, Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS, and Adam Kilian, MD, break down why giant cell arteritis (GCA) demands immediate action, explain how to confirm diagnosis quickly, and what same-day treatment options like upadacitinib (Rinvoq) mean for patient care. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Dr. Len Calabrese. I am Dr. Adam Killian.

Management 59

Management Diagnosis Patient-Centered Patients 59

CDOCS

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

<p><span style="font-size:16px;"><em>Patient financing made easy with transparent payment options, competitive APRs, and monthly payment plans.</em></span></p> &ldquo;Any patient questions regarding payment plans are directed to us,&rdquo; Crean explained. &ldquo;Providers

Patients 52

Patients Finance Provider Insurance 52

Medical Xpress

MAY 10, 2023

It is present in approximately half of all lung cancer patients and is particularly damaging in cases of non-small cell lung cancer. Cachexia is a syndrome characterized by severe loss of weight and muscle mass. Early detection is important for prognostic purposes and as a basis for optimal decisions on treatment.

Diagnosis 98

Diagnosis Patients IT 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Several sessions included presentations on diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN), such as the Peter J. In one study that was not presented at the PNS annual meeting, the researchers aimed to assess whether evaluating balance and gait could serve as a viable screening tool of DPN. Dyck Lecture on mechanisms of diabetic neuropathic pain.

Diabetes 52

Diabetes Patient-Centered Screening Utilities 52

StorytellERdoc

MARCH 9, 2015

The other set of eyes, darker brown and magnified by her gold-stemmed glasses, belonged to my patient, a woman in her early-sixties. Worse yet, a patient sometimes will keep on talking to someone else in the room and behave as if we haven't even entered. Extending my hand, I introduced myself first to my patient, Ms.

Hospital 100

Hospital Patients IT Provider 100

Louisville Lectures

APRIL 5, 2019

In this Grand Rounds, Dr. Jonathan Bernstein discusses chronic cough by first describing the evaluation and differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with chronic cough. He then determines the pathogenesis of chronic cough and defines the approach to diagnosis and treatment of chronic cough.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Diagnosis IT Hospital 52

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

MBC is presented not simply as data collection, but as a dynamic, evidence-based clinical process that enhances outcomes, promotes equity, and strengthens team-based care. MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10, 3, 4) Why is MBC important? 3, 4) Why is MBC important?

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Integrated Care Mental Health Healthcare Clinical Practice 100