Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Studied: 119,926 adult patients with one or more primary care visits during the 30-month study period. Outcome Measures: Assessment of tobacco use; Among patients with current tobacco use, provision of advice to quit, referral to tobacco cessation counseling and tobacco cessation medication orders.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Electronics Individual 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care (PC) practices that implement Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) can identify, reduce, and prevent problematic alcohol use that otherwise could go undetected. While screening and brief counseling in PC is considered best practice, it is not standard practice.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Nurse Practitioner Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends universal screening; however studies have found inconsistencies in screening of FI, documentation of FI, and referral to appropriate resources. Population Studied Families of children ages 0-18yo at an urban pediatric primary care mobile medical clinic serving families in Washington, D.C.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Referral Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Referrals were not placed for patients being discharged to another facility or who already had an outside primary care provider. Intervention: A team was created with an attending physician, care coordinators, and front office staff.

Appointment 130

Appointment Hospital Management Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, multiple organizations operate under a ‘boutique’ medicine model where patients pay a block or annual fee to access primary care services. Comparatively, physicians in general practice were more likely to see patients for mental health, chronic disease, and preventive care.

Clinic 130

Clinic Referral Primary Care Physician Primary Care 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MARCH 21, 2025

A recent inquiry within the CFHA community sought recommendations on implementing the Primary Care Behavioral Health (P CBH) model at a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that had received CCBHC Demonstration. Ensure that you engage in culture-building across the FQHC to maintain the primary care focus.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Integrated Care Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: Evaluate the economic impact of receiving tele-legal services from Medicaid’s perspective with regard to a) fee- for service (FFS) total cost of care; b) FFS cost of primary care; c) utilization for FFS primary care; d) utilization for FFS and capitated behavioral health (BH) and BH emergency department encounters.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: For many patients with long-COVID, primary care is the first point of interaction with the healthcare system. In principle, primary care is well-situated to manage long-COVID. However, beyond expressions of disempowerment, the patient’s perspective regarding the quality of long-COVID care is lacking.

Healthcare 130

Healthcare Primary Care Patients Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE This study aimed to assess how agile implementation–driven iterative processes and tailored workflows can facilitate the implementation of a digital cognitive assessment (DCA) tool for patients aged 65 years or older into primary care practices.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Referral Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. referrals, and 6.6 (2.8) However, since 2020, encounters per patient increased, perhaps compensating for care delayed during the pandemic.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Provider Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Most diabetes care occurs in primary care (PC). Objective To compare practice characteristics collected at baseline between those choosing a practice-led, self-paced CGM implementation plan or a referral to a virtual implementation service. Setting or Dataset 76 Colorado primary care practices.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Referral Clinic 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A patient-reported experience survey on primary care. Organizational factors including estimation of demand and supply, use of a referral algorithm, and strategies to optimize consultations were associated with a better experience of care. Instrument. Outcomes measures.

Nurse Practitioner 130

Nurse Practitioner Clinic Family Physician Finance 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Early identification and intervention in behavioral aspects of chronic diseases leads to improved function with decreased healthcare utilization, yet we know little about referral patterns for behavioral support of chronic disease. 88% (n= 11,483) of BH referrals were created for the management of a mental health condition.

Referral 130

Referral Chronic Condition Medical Chronic Disease 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: The rise in social needs screening in primary care settings has led to questions about program design and implementation strategies. Multisector coordination is critical for effective screening and referral initiatives.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Screening Patient-Centered 130

Canadian Family Physician

MAY 14, 2025

Objective To determine the major themes among clinical questions asked to addiction medicine specialists sent by primary care providers (PCPs) via the Champlain Building Access to Specialists through the eConsultation (BASE™) electronic consultation (eConsult) service and the PCP-perceived benefits of this service.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Consulting Electronics Provider 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Measures of handgrip strength are collected in primary care settings as a vital sign for the prevention of health conditions related to low muscle strength. Primary care providers and clinical investigations may consider utilizing these new tools and methods for more comprehensively assessing muscle function.

Electronics 130

Electronics Primary Care Utilities Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Comprehensiveness is a central element of primary care and family medicine but has not been clearly and consistently conceptualized in literature. The lack of an encompassing framework for comprehensiveness reduces our ability to measure and evaluate its presence and impact in primary care delivery.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Finance DO Family Medicine 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Data on the impacts of COVID-19 on preventative primary care are still emerging. Restrictions and subsequent adaptions to routine care may have affected a variety of outcomes for young children including growth and development, referral rates and wait times, and the identification and management of developmental delays.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Referral Relationship Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives Describe perspectives of clinicians and implementation leads on the role of primary care in ADRD early detection. Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program. Population Studied HCPs administering the DCA and BBM tools and team leads responsible for planning and implementation.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Healthcare Finance 130

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 1, 2025

Evidence‑informed care was literally at his fingertips. Reclaiming Time and Attention Primary care professionals may log more than eleven hours a day, over half of it in the electronic health record (Menchaca, 2025). For AI in Primary Care, Start With the Problem. References Menchaca, J.

Patient-Centered 130

Patient-Centered Integrated Care Primary Care Healthcare Professional 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A recent review of national diabetes treatment guidelines recommended adjustments to DM to reduce financial strain (eg, selecting lower cost medications), as well as directly intervening in response to an identified social need (eg, referral to a community-based service). Outcome Measure: Themes that emerged from interviews.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). For patients screened positive, chart reviews were conducted and the number of referrals to SUD Clinic was tracked. The lack of SUD Clinic referral suggests that having specialty support alone may not suffice.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Rural health system leaders described 5 methods to provide rural specialty access: community-based, visiting, referrals to larger towns, telehealth, and management by primary care with specialist support. Objective: This study sought to analyze changes in the U.S. for t-tests or Chi-square tests as appropriate).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Community Telehealth Referral 130

Plum Health

MAY 22, 2023

Direct Primary Care (DPC) has emerged as a viable, high-quality primary care model that liberates itself from the constraints of traditional fee-for-service (FFS) products. Thus, DPC forms a better long-term investment focused on preventive care, as opposed to only treating patients post-diagnosis.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care PCP PCP Insurance 52

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 22, 2025

They enrolled Colorado primary care practices interested in CGM and allowed them to either adopt the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Transformation in Practice Series (TIPS): CGM implementation modules or refer individuals to a virtual CGM initiation and education service led by a primary care multidisciplinary team.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Diabetes Family Physician Referral 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

physician assistants, nurse practitioners) to help "de-clutter the inbox" and manage referrals. The need for dedicated funding for an integrated EMR in the province and establishment of a centralized referral system were also proposed system solutions. burnout) and reduced time for direct patient care.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Family Physician Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: We conducted a parallel mixed-methods secondary analysis of data collected by the Improving Messaging And Gaps in Needs and rEferrals (IMAGINE) study. Setting: Three safety-net primary care practices in western Colorado.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Patients Referral 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Most children with functional abdominal pain (FAP) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) could be managed in primary care (PC). Nevertheless, many children are referred to pediatric care. It is not clear which children are referred and what the differences are between PC and hospital care populations.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care General Practitioner GP Diagnosis 130

Canadian Family Physician

APRIL 14, 2025

Participants Participant data registered in a Dutch practice-based primary care research network (Family Medicine Network [FaMe-Net]). For persistent symptom diagnoses, GPs indicated more therapeutic interventions (n=217, 40.1%) compared to diagnostic interventions (n=175, 32.3%) or referrals (n=149, 27.6%).

General Practice 52

General Practice Diagnose Management GP 52

Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When we launched, it was mostly private primary care physicians who contracted with us. At one time it seemed concierge medicine was incompatible with a vertically integrated healthcare organization that relies on third party payers and referrals. Our relationship was always built on ongoing service and support.

Private Practice 130

Private Practice Relationship Healthcare Primary Care Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective(s): This research explores patient navigation between primary care and specialty care to facilitate treatment completion in a health care system. Intervention: Patient navigation program to specialist treatment from primary care with additional referral to behavioral health services.

Behavioral Health Services 130

Behavioral Health Services Primary Care Patients Healthcare 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

DECEMBER 26, 2023

This type of doctor is often referred to as an internist or primary care doctor. According to the CDC, the percentage of adults who had a visit with a doctor or other health care professional in the last year is 84.9%. If it's determined that you need more specialized treatment, a referral can be made to a cardiologist.

Internal Medicine 52

Internal Medicine Primary Care Doctor Primary Care Referral 52

The Direct Doctors Difference

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As a small, direct primary care practice here at Direct Doctors, we wholeheartedly agree! ​The author highlights the fact that the business model of hospital owned primary care… ” emphasizes revenue maximization over patient well-being.” His solution?

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Primary Care Doctor Hospital Referral 52

Noreta Family Medicine

MARCH 26, 2025

I’ve written blogs that discuss my perspective on why Direct Primary Care (DPC) is helpful to both patients and physicians in Columbia, SC (and beyond!). Many of our patients have shared how they often felt rushed at their previous primary care doctor’s office, leaving appointments with lingering concerns.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Appointment Family Medicine DO 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Though dementia can be managed in primary care, the complexity of the condition and high prevalence of multimorbidity often require advice from a variety of specialists. eConsult is a secure web-based platform that may make communication with specialists more accessible for primary care providers (PCPs).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Consulting Community PCP 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tip 1: Do Research and Obtain Referrals Start your search by asking friends, family, and colleagues for recommendations. Word-of-mouth referrals can provide valuable insights into a doctor's practice, professionalism, and bedside manner. Here are some essential tips to guide you in locating the best family physician for your needs.

Family Doctor 52

Family Doctor Families Family Board-Certified 52

Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 15, 2025

Finally, neither patients nor primary care clinicians could easily access the results of colonoscopies or stool-based tests. They quantified time, paperwork, communication, technology (number of mouse clicks to order a CRC screening test), other administrative tasks, and low-value CRC screenings.

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Screening Insurance Primary Care Referral 52