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Differences in primary care utilization by primary care availability in the first year of Virginia Medicaid Expansion [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care is essential to health but barriers include affordability of care and accessibility of physicians. Importantly, Virginia's Medicaid expansion reduced cost-related barriers to accessing care for over 700,000 individuals. Of these, 117,481 (57.2%) individuals had at least one primary care visit.

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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. The survey was anonymous both before and after the rotation.

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Exploring the Varied Effects of Patient-PCP Continuity on ER Utilization and Costs [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes including decreased utilization of ER services and lower costs for some populations. or low (< 0.7).

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Evaluation of Primary Care Provider Utilization by Asthma Patients after the Implementation of Coach McLungsSM [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients with the worst outcomes often lack continuity of primary care and receive care at emergency departments during exacerbations. Improved asthma outcomes are associated with effective communication between patients and providers, such as using shared decision-making. to 0.08, p=0.44), 5% to 2% ([95%]CI -0.03

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I survived hospice: Live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Hospice aims to manage a patient’s symptoms as they near end of life. While not the ideal case, patients may be discharged alive from hospice for a number of reasons, including: patient revocation of care, improved prognosis, or transfer of care to a different facility or geographic area.

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Neighborhood Determinants of Primary Care Access in Virginia [Original Research]

Annals of Family Medicine

PURPOSE Primary care is the foundation of any health care system. Primary care improves the health of communities and decreases health inequities. METHODS We used the 2019 Virginia All-Payers Claims Database to identify primary care physicians (PCPs) and the number of distinct patients seen by each physician.

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits.

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