Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. How long will it take?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Necessary healthcare services to manage chronic pain remain difficult to access in primary care. 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.

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Primary Care Management Chronic Condition Education 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: While hypertension is the most common chronic disease cared for during adult primary care visits, it is challenging to know which hypertensive patients have the highest risk of cardiovascular complications in the future. A total of 269,411 patients were used for model training.

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Hypertension Primary Care Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Social data that is collected in a standardized fashion can be used to improve individual patient care by uncovering and then addressing social needs, to stimulate the development of new integrated health and social programs, and be used to identify inequities across an organization. having a positive experience.

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Primary Care Clinic Provider Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The challenges faced stem from the uncertainty and complexity of redefining professional roles and scopes of practice, as well as the skills needed to effectively work together and coordinate patient care as a cohesive team. Setting: One multidisciplinary primary care team in the province of Quebec, Canada.

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Primary Care Healthcare Professional Family Physician Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: There is a crisis in the primary care workforce in Canada. While approaches have been developed to support primary care health human resource (HHR) planning, most planning is conducted within sector silos and there are few examples that consider a regional approach within an integrated care system.

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Integrated Care Primary Care Finance Provider 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.

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Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Conclusions We developed and validated a novel EMR-based UTI case definition using a pan-Canadian primary care dataset.

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Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The practice of occupational therapy in primary care is still developing in Quebec and in Canada. However, it is important to clarify what are the priority interventions they should offer to adapt to the primary care context and the needs of the clientele followed in this specific environment.

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Primary Care Family Medicine DO Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Stigma surrounding addiction and substance use disorders (SUDs) hinders access to intervention and treatment, directly impacting primary care efforts. Media portrayals of addiction shape public perceptions, directly affecting individuals' willingness to seek treatment.

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Primary Care Individual Utilities IT 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is thought that physicians, specifically those in primary care, may be in a unique position to counsel patients on firearm safety. The American Academy of Pediatrics then provided funding for T-shirts to providers who had completed the training as well as gun locks to distribute to patients.

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Primary Care Provider Patients IT 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensiveness of care represents an important process measure within the contexts of primary care for core services. These services represent the provision of integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs.

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Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Diabetes Internal Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Setting or Dataset two primary health centers. Moreover, the intervention has been shown to reduce hospital admission rates among patients with hypertension (RR=10.26, 95% CI 1.24-84.82).

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Hypertension Primary Care General Practitioner Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SDM involves a collaborative process between patients and providers to make informed healthcare choices. Despite its proven benefits in enhancing patient outcomes, real-world constraints such as time, training, and staff availability hinder its widespread implementation. Outcome Measures: Satisfaction, Knowledge, and Efficacy.

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Asthma Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

For the past 30 years, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has continuously supported primary care research, funding the first ECHO grant, pioneering patient-centered medical home models, and supporting primary care practice-based research networks.

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Primary Care Specialization Patient-Centered Healthcare 211

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

Community health worker (CHW) interventions show promising outcomes for T2D and HTN control particularly among low income and historically marginalized patients. Objective Evaluate the implementation of a CHW program and its impact on the control of T2D and HTN outcomes among patients with social vulnerabilities.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Community Diabetes Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The use of digital health tools like patient portals is critical for enhancing patient-provider communication. However, their effectiveness for patients with visual or hearing disabilities often remains under-examined. Ensuring these tools serve such patients effectively is crucial for healthcare equity.

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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. Objective: Our objective was to improve the TCM clinic no-show rate and thereby improve patient outcomes.

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Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: The overarching objective of the MU is to enhance the delivery of high-quality care to a broader patient population. Population Studied: The populations included in our research are providers and staff working in the MU and aggregated data on patients seen at the MU practice.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context In walk-in clinics, physicians have limited time with patients. A consultation preparation sheet (CPS) was developed to help patients better characterize their reason for consulting. Reasons for consultation on the CPS were classified according to the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-3) codes and chapters.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective To assess patient perceptions of a primary care-based LM clinic. Population Studied Patients who were referred to or attended the LM clinic between 5/1/22 and 5/31/24 (n=575). There is limited research on implementation of LM in medically underserved communities. Setting: LM Clinic in the SW Virginia safety net.

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Clinic Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 1, 2025

I have heard of practices where providers tell their patients that they’ll get 10 minutes face-to-face, so the doctor has enough time to work the computer, documenting the 10 minute encounter. And, still, there is a widespread expectation that many things can happen in the invisible space between patient visits.

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Patients Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Wellness Visit 130

KevinMD

JUNE 18, 2025

Seat 11A was located near the Read more… The man in seat 11A survived, but why don’t our patients? Among the 242 people on board, only one survived: a man seated in 11A. That image has stayed with me—not just because of the miraculous survival, but because of what it reveals about systems. originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

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Patients IT Primary Care 277

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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Education Primary Care Physician Primary Care DO 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Despite Canada’s systems of universal health insurance, more than one-in-five people do not have access to primary care. Bold reform is needed centered on the values and priorities of patients and the public. Setting Canada. Population Studied Adults 18 years and over living in Canada.

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Patient-Centered Primary Care Patients Community 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 9, 2025

It was a call to reimagine, reinvent and reinvigorate primary care. In fact, personally, six months later, I started transitioning to a different job, the one I now work full-time in, doing housecalls and virtual visits for older and disabled patients. There are a few problems with primary care today.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Insurance Diagnose Screening 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 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. Conclusion The burden of rheumatic disease is rising.

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Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 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

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

APRIL 24, 2025

Minnesota’s Health Care Homes (HCH) certification program is transforming primary care by recognizing clinics that prioritize patient-centered, team-based care. This free and voluntary program offers significant benefits to clinics, health care professionals and patients across the state.

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Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered DO 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

DECEMBER 27, 2024

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management. Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. Consideration of the care team workflows (i.e., Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis.

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Electronics Patient-Centered Hypertension Primary Care 130

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

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Increased workload associated with electronic visits (eVisits) in primary care could potentially be decreased by the use of artificial intelligence (AI); however, it is unknown whether this use of AI would be acceptable to staff and patients. We analyzed verbatim transcripts using thematic analysis.

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Primary Care Electronics Patients Appointment 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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