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Maryland's Primary Care Program: incremental progress or breakthrough?

The Health Policy Exchange

Health Policy Fellowship three years ago, though I still enjoy working alongside these talented family physicians in clinic, such as Dr. Brian Antono, who recently blogged about his fellowship experiences for Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary Care. CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield joined the program in 2020.)

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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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Understanding Primary Care Inbox Management: A Qualitative Study of Patient Message Prioritization and Inbox Workflow [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

The increased inbox burden has particularly impacted primary care physicians. Objective Our goal was to examine how message prioritization (as distinct from categorization) occurs in primary care, and to understand the approaches primary care clinicians deployed for managing their inbox workflows.

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Primary care severe asthma registry project-phase 1: e-Delphi results for registry entry and indices of clinician behaviour [Pulmonary and critical care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: A severe asthma registry in primary care is needed to determine the population prevalence and best practices in the real world. Setting or Dataset: The University of Toronto Practice-based and Learning Research Network (UPLEARN) in Ontario, Canada, comprises ~400 primary care physicians contributing data on ~400,000 patients.

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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.

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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models.

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A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians Approaches to Caring for Adult Adopted Patients [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary care physicians (PCPs) rarely receive training about adoptees including their mental health needs and increased suicide risk. PURPOSE Adoption has lifelong health implications for 7.8