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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Education Mental Health Patient-Centered 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. of those patients have 1-3 primary care visits per year.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Primary Care Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To report implementation outcomes using a standardized approach and tool in a multi-site study of routine and systematic demographic and social needs data collection in primary care settings. Study Design and Analysis: Between Sept 2022-Oct 2023 we implemented the SPARK Tool at five primary care clinics.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinic Provider Patients 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care DO Family Medicine Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To determine how primary care providers (PCP) utilize the eConsult platform. Conclusions: With the increasing popularity of eConsults to improve access to care, it is crucial to gain insights into the eConsult utilization patterns of PCPs. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

Utilities 130

Utilities Primary Care Provider PCP 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Diagnosis 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

Objective: To evaluate the effect of brief dermoscopy training on primary care providers' diagnostic accuracy on a test and in clinical practice. Population studied: Primary care providers (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants), 43 in phase 1 and 13 in phase 2.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Nurse Practitioner Clinical Practice 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 13 urban and rural primary care practices located across Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida. Context: In May 2023, Mayo Clinic implemented a revised screening tool to assess social determinants of health (SDOH) for its patients. Study Design and Analysis: Descriptive analysis of secondary data.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Routine Screenings Patients 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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Diabetes Internal Medicine 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 firearm violence epidemic in our country is unfortunately familiar to many of us.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Patients IT 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To address this crisis, China has launched the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program in 2009, which includes several elderly care initiatives. Population: Older adults (≥ 65 years) and village doctors residing in Y community, along with local officials and staff involved in rural primary care delivery.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Provider Government Community 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

There is a gap in the literature on understanding experiences of food insecurity in rural dwelling older adults and the role primary care providers can play in systematically screening older adults for age related food issues. Data were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Family Doctor Mental Health 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

Objective This study aims to investigate the impact of data visualization using China-PAR on managing hypertension among primary care patients. Although data visualization is gaining traction in the hypertension, its use in health education and information dissemination is still underutilized.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Primary Care General Practitioner Management 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 Cohort in Primary Care (COPRI) is ongoing in 29 Family Medicine Groups (FMG) across Québec. Conclusions: It takes a minimum of 6 to 19 months to obtain authorization to conduct research at GMFs for a non-interventional observational study in primary care in Québec.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Family Medicine DO Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Telehealth Hypertension 130

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.

Education 130

Education Primary Care Physician Primary Care DO 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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Screening Electronics Patients 52

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Insurance Diagnose Screening 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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Integrated Care Primary Care Mental Health Family Healthcare 130

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.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Diagnose Clinical Practice 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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Patient-Centered Medical Student 52

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 20, 2024

What is primary care? Part 1 How do I choose a primary care physician? Here are some questions to consider along with a few tips for finding a primary care doctor: 1) How easy is it to get in touch with your doctor and their office? 3) What services does the primary care doctor offer?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Physician Family Physician 52

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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Board-Certified Patient-Centered DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. Setting: 21 primary care practices within Atrium Health, a large integrated healthcare system.

Asthma 130

Asthma Patients Primary Care Chronic Disease 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

California Academy of Family Physicians (CAFP)

MAY 28, 2025

Maryal Concepcion and Jeannine Rodems live from the CAFP All Member Advocacy Meeting to talk about Direct Primary Care (DPC), what DPC is, how it works with the patient relationship, and resources available for any family physician looking at DPC as a potential career. In this newly released episode, Drs.

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Family Families Family Physician Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting 3 primary care clinics in SW Virginia. Results 10,509 unique patients with T2D and/or HTN visited the primary care clinics. Conclusions Our findings will inform future best practices for the implementation of CHW interventions in primary care settings.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Community Diabetes Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

selected primary care specialties including family medicine, pediatrics, and internal medicine. reported providing clinical care for underserved populations. Conclusion: Graduates of the PRIME-LA program are diverse, serve underserved populations, and have high rates of choosing primary care.

Education 130

Education Medical Student Medical 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. Objective OurCare is the largest pan-Canadian initiative to engage the public about the future of primary care in Canada. Setting Canada.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Primary Care Patients Community 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. My theory is that the behavioral health staff members felt isolated and not integrated with the primary care providers.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Patient-Centered Nurse Practitioner Primary Care Doctor 130

Plum Health

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Subscription vs. Traditional Primary Care: Which Saves You More? Subscription vs. Traditional Primary Care: Which Saves You More? When it comes to finding good, reasonably priced primary care, the health care dollar seems daunting. What Is Subscription-Based Primary Care?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Insurance Telemedicine Healthcare 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Addressing structural vulnerability is an increasing focus for primary care researchers. This work can be demanding in terms of professional skills required and personal capacity and even risk secondary trauma. Few institutions offer specific supports or training for conducting research in this domain.

Community 130

Community IT Primary Care Relationship 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.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Mental Health Primary Care Physician Healthcare 52