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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Population Studied: CUSOM PCPs. Outcome Measures: The number of eConsults by PCP and type of eConsult sent. Top utilizers were defined as PCPs with ordering volume in the 75th percentile.

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Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

Referrals were not placed for patients being discharged to another facility or who already had an outside primary care provider. The care coordinator then attempted to call the patients on 3 consecutive days after discharge to make an appointment with either the patient’s PCP or an APP.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. This blog covers everything you need to know—from appointment types and coding to telehealth options and what really happens during your time with the provider. What does the doctor do first?

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Feasibility,reliability,validity of an electronic Frailty Index based on Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in Primary Care [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Here, we examined the feasibility, reliability, and validity of the eFI-CGA by primary care providers (PCP). A PCP and a geriatrician assessed each patient independently at baseline and six months. PCP and geriatrician inter-rater agreements were tested using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). by geriatrician).

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Continuity and Relationships Among Patients, Physicians, and Care Teams (CARE PACT) [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: A patient’s relationship with their primary care physician (PCP) or advanced practice provider (APP) is instrumental in their healthcare journey. We also calculated the number of PCPs/APPs seen over 1- and 5-year intervals. Results: 43% of designated providers were from non-primary care specialties.

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Automatic Dementia Identification for eConsult Service Users by Explainable-AI (XAI) and Natural Language Processing [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Primary care providers (PCP) formulate the questions to the specialist through the eConsult online system. Objective The XAI paradigm and Natural Language Processing (NLP) helps detect whether the eConsult instance is a dementia case, plus it provides with the associated topics that were otherwise latent in the text.

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Card studies using EHR alerts linked to REDCap questionnaires: a practical session on how to build the tools [Research methodology and instrument development]

Annals of Family Medicine

Background Researchers use card studies to obtain observational data about primary care provider (PCP) knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors on a variety of topics. A survey of PCP users showed equal satisfaction with paper or EHR-based cards. Card responses were easily managed in the REDCap database, not in the medical record.

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