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Bup-ing Up Residency: A Dose of Change for OUD Care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

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
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Using Machine Learning to advance primary care: an example of predictive modeling of hypertension risk to impact outcomes [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

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.

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Physicians Perspectives on the Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease (ASCVD) Risk Calculator. [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design: Qualitative descriptive study conducted using ten 45-minute semi-structured interviews with primary care physicians in North Carolina (recruited via purposive, snowball, and convenience sampling) between March and April 2022. Context: The ASCVD risk calculator includes race as a variable in its risk estimation.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

These providers can be brought on a medical facility’s team during periods of high patient volume—such as when there are high rates of seasonal illnesses—supplementing permanent staff and ensuring that there are enough hands to care for every patient that walks through the door.

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A Case of HPV / Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oropharynx as Seen from a CBCT

CDOCS

He had been having issues with it for about 2 years and had been seen by an ENT physician. He had recently been to his primary care physician who also dismissed it as viral. Most people clear HPV within 1 to 2 years, but HPV infection persists in some people.</p> He hadn&rsquo;t felt well for a while.

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COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and related factors among primary health care workers in a district of Istanbul: A cross-sectional study from Turkey

BMJ

METHOD The cross-sectional study was conducted on family physicians and family health staff working in primary care family health centers in Üsküdar district of Istanbul with a population of 520,771 between 25-29 December 2020 [4]. Primary care visits increase utilization of evidence-based preventative health measures.