Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Background: Access to high-quality primary care requires adequate numbers of primary care physicians (PCPs) as well as appropriate clinician panel size. Excess number of patients per clinician has been associated with higher physician burnout and may hinder timely patient access to care.

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Primary Care Community Finance PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance.

Electronics 130

Electronics Education Patients Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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 Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Vida Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

If you've been trying to lose weight for years, you’re not alone. With new weight loss medications hitting the market, more people are asking their doctors for help. From specialized obesity clinics to online services offering quick prescriptions, the options can feel overwhelming. But how do you know what is safe and who to trust?

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Diabetes Chronic Condition 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Understanding where Ontario’s family physicians practice and how many can provide language-concordant care to official language minority communities can inform future research and policy development.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Family Physician Families 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

of those patients have 1-3 primary care visits per year. Population Studied: LVHN has 107,851 adult out-patients with hypertension, and 66.4%

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Hypertension Primary Care Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 130

The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This electronic tool uses artificial intelligence to sift through patients' demographics, claims, and other data to produce a list of those with the greatest likelihood of an emergency department visit or hospitalization, theoretically allowing primary care physicians to intervene to prevent the event and its associated medical expenses.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. In Round 4, panelists categorized these criteria as core, desired or optional data elements.

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Asthma Primary Care Primary Care Physician Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Primary care physicians often help patients with mental health concerns, but little is known about patients’ views of addressing their mental health needs within the primary care setting.

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The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

As a result, an almost entirely fee-for-service primary care system was gradually replaced with a mixture of salary-based, capitation-based, and blended fee-for-service payment models by 2012.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Management Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Little is known about the characteristics of physicians and patients participating in boutique clinic practice models. This study offers insight into the practice patterns of boutique clinic primary care physicians, as well as the estimated public costs of this business model in Ontario.

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Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care 130

Medical Xpress

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

A new study has found that patients are increasingly likely to discuss mental health concerns with the doctor they often know best: their primary care physician.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Mental Health Healthcare 72

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Quantitate live discharges from a Medicare-certified home hospice program, determine rates of hospital utilization within 6 months of discharge, and review the discharge planning process including coordination of follow-up with a primary care physician following hospice discharge. metropolitan area.

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Primary Care Physician Utilities PCP PCP 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE This study aimed to examine the approaches general practitioners (GPs) use to respond to the treatment burden faced by people with type 2 diabetes. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed 29 videos of GP-patient consultations in an academic general practice clinic in China.

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Primary Care Physician GP General Practitioner Diabetes 130

The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 26, 2014

Image courtesy of the American Academy of Family Physicians Modest gains in the numbers of U.S. and foreign medical graduates matching into family medicine residency programs over the past five years will fall well short of supplying an additional 52,000 primary care physicians by 2025 , a shortage projected by the Robert Graham Center.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Primary care physicians regularly implore patients to buy and eat healthy foods. Background. But as our patients stroll their grocery store aisles, can we count on food packaging health claims to show our patients the healthier foods? It has been asserted that health claims actually adorn the least healthy foods (Pollan, 2007).

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Patients Primary Care Physician Primary Care IT 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

A primary care physician is the first point of contact when people want to receive care. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, over 50% of doctor office appointments are made with primary doctors. With that said, check out some essential services primary care physicians offer.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Doctor Provider Primary Care 52

A Country Doctor Writes

APRIL 3, 2025

The challenge in what I do as a primary care physician is to accept the changing winds of each clinic visit, to see time as something more fluid than a Swiss watch, and to remain a little bit above it all – just enough so I don’t feel completely stuck in the muddy waters of our modern healthcare bureaucracy.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Appointment Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Previous research identified high-need counties based on consistently low primary care physician capacity. Objective(s): This research explores the relationship between CBRP location and high-need areas, defined as counties with consistently low rates of primary care physician capacity.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Community Finance Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

Primary care physicians often feel pressure to rush through the seemingly endless patient care and administrative work we are faced with daily. In residency, I learned how to be efficient, how to juggle multiple things at once, and how to think quickly: all valuable skills.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Relationship Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

PURPOSE We tested for direct and indirect effects that performance-based reimbursement (PBR) in primary care has on perceived individual and organizational quality of care, and the role of illegitimate tasks and moral distress as potential mediators. Performance-based reimbursement was measured using a single item.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Individual Healthcare 130

The Physicians Foundation

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Misplaced Training Dollars: Lack of funding for community-based training impacting the primary care physician pipeline Hospital-based graduate medical education (GME) receives significantly more funding than community-based programs, a disparity linked to fewer new primary care physicians entering the workforce.

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Primary Care Chronic Disease Primary Care Physician Nurse Practitioner 52

Medical Xpress

APRIL 26, 2023

Unintentional weight loss (UWL) is a common and serious problem, and according to several studies, it could be a sign—sometimes the only sign—of an underlying malignancy, such as a colorectal or pancreatic cancer.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care IT 75

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Self-disclosure of mental health issues is very personal and is considered to be outside the scope of the patient-physician relationship. This narrative tells my story as a primary care physician trying to help a patient having anxiety and depression.

Primary Care Physician 130

Primary Care Physician Mental Health Primary Care Relationship 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Researchers conducted a retrospective study to explore how physicians in Swedish primary care managed individuals with fatigue to support the development of evidence-based care procedures. They carried out 6 semi-structured focus group interviews with 39 primary care physicians from 3 centers in Stockholm.

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Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Individual 52

Plum Health

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I'm Dr. 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. Hey there, Michigan!

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Mental Health Primary Care Physician Healthcare 52

Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When we launched, it was mostly private primary care physicians who contracted with us. Our relationship was always built on ongoing service and support. Models That Adapt as the Market Changes The flexibility of our approach is what has contributed to our longevity. But soon, specialists got on board.

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Private Practice Relationship Healthcare Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

METHODS In a pilot cross-sectional study, we enrolled an initial cohort of 100 consecutive women aged 18-49 years who had a primary care physician and a scheduled echocardiography at Mayo Clinic Florida (Jacksonville) (cohort 1).

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Screening Primary Care Physician Primary Care Clinic 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The foundation of health is preventive care. Visiting a primary doctor can be an important way to stay healthy. According to Healthcare IT News, only 67% of people aged 25-35 have a primary care physician. These screenings can help your primary care physician identify potential risks to your health.

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Appointment Screening 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

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. Understanding characteristics of where workforce gaps are greatest is key to developing effective workforce solutions.

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Primary Care PCP PCP Primary Care Physician 130

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 3, 2023

Are you likely to receive better care if the specialist treating you knows your primary care physician?

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Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patients 98

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Barriers include time constraints, lack of training in obesity treatment, limited reimbursement, and the absence of structured care pathways. This unmet need is compounded by growing therapeutic options that primary care physicians may be unfamiliar with or uncomfortable prescribing.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Chronic Disease 52

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

Less is known about how team-based care influences patient satisfaction and perceptions of the trade-off between continuity and access. This study assessed the preferences of family medicine patients for seeing their primary care physician (PCP) vs other team clinicians based on visit type and wait time.

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PCP PCP Chronic Condition Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MARCH 24, 2025

This study aims to increase understanding of factors related to health care staff dynamics that contribute to more TR primary care visits for adults with chronic health conditions.

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Primary Care Patients Primary Care Physician Chronic Condition 130

Priority Physicians

JANUARY 20, 2025

Should you check in with your primary care physician or skip that step and go to a specialist, assuming your physician will send you there anyway? But if you’re a patient of a direct primary care (DPC) practice , you don’t need to guess about orthopedic pain management.

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Management Primary Care Physician Primary Care Patient-Centered 52

Hitchcock Family Medicine

MARCH 25, 2022

Preventive care is one of the most important aspects of maintaining good health. Seeking care from a primary care physician instead of a specialist can also be beneficial in terms of reducing your medical expenses. If you're in the Chattanooga, TN area and need a primary care physician, contact us today!

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Family Doctor Families Family Primary Care Physician 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care physicians and practice teams face well-documented challenges increasing colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates among their patients. Multi-level interventions that address patients, clinicians, clinical care environments and larger systems (hospitals, networks, etc.)

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Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130