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Influencing Factors of Adherence Dynamics in Young Adults with Hypertension: A Mixed-Methods Study [Hypertension]

Annals of Family Medicine

However, the factors influencing the dynamics of adherence among young Chinese patients with hypertension remain unclear. Objective The present study investigates the factors influencing the dynamics of medication and non-medication adherence in young Chinese adults with hypertension.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

There, as medical director, I had a friend and ally in the behavioral health director, and both our departments underwent years of rapid growth. This was in part because we shared patients and patient experiences between our departments and had a bidirectional way of making warm handoffs. No counseling is offered.

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Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

That small win reminded me that artificial intelligence is already shaping the way our patients (and our families) search for health advice. Our Patients Are Already Using AI Many people now ask their first health question to a chatbot rather than to a clinician. Below, I share three reasons why.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Its basic argument was that it isn’t sustainable to only see patients one by one in traditional doctor visits. I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. Most medical practices are still stuck doing piecework.

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Revisiting the Advantages of aSOAP Notes: The Best of the Paper Chart and Old School Photography

A Country Doctor Writes

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. So my mental picture of the problem area ends up being like a photograph with everything surrounding the center of the picture a bit blurry.

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Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

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

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Researchers present advance in re-treatment with CAR T therapy

Medical Xpress

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center presented preliminary results of an ongoing Phase I clinical trial demonstrating successful re-treatment with CAR T cell therapy for patients whose cancers relapsed after previous CAR T therapy at the 2022 American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting.