Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. These include minimizing resource utilization and decreasing the risk of complications associated with IV antibiotics such as diarrhea. After screening, 31 full texts were reviewed, and 3 studies were included.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Complication Diagnosis Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

MAY 27, 2025

PURPOSE We assessed the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a digital cognitive assessment (DCA) for Alzheimer disease and related dementias (ADRD) screening into primary care. We also assessed the prevalence of positive screens and measured diagnostic and care outcomes after a positive DCA result.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diagnosis Screening Utilities 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Study Design & Analysis We used a screening questionnaire to purposively select interview participants.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Management Nurse Practitioner Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe how primary care clinics have considered social needs in DM, and identify opportunities to support primary care clinics. Population Studied: Purposive sample of care team members (eg, physicians, social workers, diabetes educators, dietitians, community health workers).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: In Ontario, patients who move increasingly keep their family physician (FP) because no one in their new community is accepting new patients, creating long distances to seek primary care. Dataset: The cohort was identified using the April 2023 Primary Care Population Dataset (PCPOP), an ICES-derived database.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Primary Care Families Family 130

Annals of Family Medicine

JANUARY 27, 2025

PURPOSE Mental health screening is recommended by the US Preventive Services Task Force for all patients in areas where treatment options are available. Still, it is estimated that only 4% of primary care patients are screened for depression. 95% CI, 69.0-73.5) and a specificity of 73.5 (95% 95% CI, 71.5-75.5).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Screening Mental Health Utilities 130

GeriPal

JULY 19, 2024

Summary Transcript Summary The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concluded back in 2000 that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening for dementia in older adults. If so, how do we screen and who do we screen? What should we use to screen individuals? Cognitive screening.

Screening 120

Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe a decade-long implementation process for genomic and precision medicine embedded in a primary care community hospital network. Results: To date, more than 225,000 patients have been screened for increased hereditary conditions, such as cancer risk, through these tools in primary care.

Community 130

Community Patient-Centered Primary Care Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Setting or Dataset: Survey data from 50 Oregon primary care and emergency department sites Population Studied: 16,403 Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries Intervention/Instrument: The CMS Accountable Health Communities study Outcome Measures: Positive screen for one or more HRSN: housing, food, transportation, utilities, safety.

Transportation 130

Transportation Screening Individual Primary Care 130

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

Portable, Rapid, Low-Cost Testing According to the authors, the LIT system comprises a microprocessor-controlled device that utilizes an LCD user interface to control assay performance, automate assay analysis, and display results in a simple readout.

Diagnose 64

Diagnose Engineering Utilities Diagnosis 64

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Recognizing the critical connection between access to nutritious food and health, health care systems across Minnesota are taking innovative steps to address food insecurity. Food Insecurity Screenings: Hennepin Health Care has integrated the Hunger Vital Signs tool into routine screenings to identify and support at-risk patients.

Family Physician 52

Family Physician Community Family Families 52

East Cary Family Physicians

JULY 26, 2023

Regular check-ups allow your healthcare provider to conduct screenings, perform tests, and monitor vital indicators that may indicate the early onset of such conditions. Utilize health check-ups as an opportunity to discuss any stress, anxiety, or emotional struggles you may be facing.

Preventive Care 52

Preventive Care Preventative Care Mental Health Healthcare 52

Aspiring Minority Doctor

APRIL 18, 2021

Also, when you do re-apply for a residency position, you will be considered a graduating medical student senior which is useful for those residency programs that automatically screen out graduates. Thirty or so years ago, this was not abnormal, but it has since heavily fallen out of favor.

GP 52

GP Medical Student Insurance General Practitioner 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Clinics should understand community strengths that might lead to robust vaccination utilization and possibly leverage these for improvement in other groups. Dataset OCHIN electronic health record data from 27 US states.

Vaccination 130

Vaccination Community Clinic Screening 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again. I think once someone becomes kind of a high-utilizer, it’s a slippery slope. I had no idea that people were calling 911 that much sometimes.

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

JANUARY 25, 2024

David: People with these illnesses suffer from persistent symptoms, poor quality of life, depression, anxiety, despite all the great things we do and all our colleagues in those specialties and in primary care and geriatrics. If I remember correctly, I think the average was, people were screening positive for depression in this study.

Patient-Centered 123

Patient-Centered IT Illness Patients 123

GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Kathleen 14:03 I mean, back to Cari’s, you know, what Cari was talking about, about financial barriers to palliative care services in the nursing home setting. Eric 14:32 So there’s financial disincentives for interdisciplinary palliative care teams. Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

Nurse Practitioner 78

Nurse Practitioner Referral Consulting Board-Certified 78

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

We were the highest utilizers of telemedicine in the whole UCSF health system at that time which we’re very proud of. And I think that it was percolating in a lot of the palliative care community. I think at least we like to think of ourselves as ahead of the curve. So I might say, what can we apply the same things?

Telemedicine 73

Telemedicine Telehealth Patient-Centered Board-Certified 73