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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Mesa Family Physician

JUNE 16, 2025

What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit Visiting a primary care provider for the first time can bring up many questions. Whether you’re establishing care with a new physician or attending a new patient visit , understanding the process can help you feel more confident and prepared. What Is a Primary Care Visit?

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Primary Care Appointment Telehealth PCP

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: As academic medical centers purposefully integrate telemedicine visits into primary care, efficacy studies are needed to appropriately guide resource allocation and triage processes. Practice settings included general primary care, senior care, concierge care, urgent care, and employer-based care.

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Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: One of the most common primary care illnesses is acute rhinosinusitis (ARS). Patients were recruited from primary care practices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, and the community (e.g., Guidelines currently suggest treating ARS with antibiotics when persistent symptoms or double sickening occur.

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Telemedicine Primary Care Emergency Room Patient-Centered

Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

Plum Health

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Subscription vs. Traditional Primary Care: Which Saves You More? Subscription vs. Traditional Primary Care: Which Saves You More? When it comes to finding good, reasonably priced primary care, the health care dollar seems daunting. What Is Subscription-Based Primary Care?

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Primary Care Insurance Telemedicine Healthcare

A qualitative evaluation of the implementation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Pre-consultation telemedicine tools have been proposed as an effective solution to optimize the care of the growing number of older patients with chronic conditions. However, little information exists on how to successfully implement these tools in the primary care setting.

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Primary Care Consulting Telemedicine Chronic Condition

Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

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. However, in practice, these recommendations may not translate into adjustments to DM.

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Primary Care Diabetes Management Provider

Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling

Physician's Weekly

JUNE 15, 2025

Analysis of 500+ urgent GP visits in Germany shows most cases were handled in-office, often driven by fear, distress, or a need for reassurance. Source: bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12875-025-02901-2 The post Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling first appeared on Physician's Weekly.

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The Evolution of Concierge Medicine: What 20 years in the industry have taught me

Concierge Choice Physicians

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

When we launched, it was mostly private primary care physicians who contracted with us. I remain confident that a company built on choice can adapt to whatever comes next: AI, direct pay, telemedicine, physician shortages, changes to Medicare payment structures, etc. But soon, specialists got on board.

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Early Prevention of Critical Illness in Older Adults: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of an Electronic Risk Score and Checklist [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Given limited critical care resources and an aging population, early interventions to prevent critical illness are vital. In this interdisciplinary collaboration, primary care and critical care clinician researchers came together with informatics and implementation experts to design this community-based pilot project.

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Illness Electronics Primary Care Nurse Practitioner

5 Questions to Ask Your Family Doctor

Hitchcock Family Medicine

APRIL 11, 2023

Whether you're looking for a new primary care family doctor or getting special services, you should have some questions ready. Your primary care physician could have a specialty, such as geriatrics or pediatrics. Do You Offer Telemedicine? Telemedicine is becoming widely available to patients.

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Underserved patients report positive experience with telehealth

Medical Xpress

JANUARY 6, 2023

Most patients seen at a primary care clinic for underserved minority patients report positive experiences with telemedicine, according to a study published online Dec. 14 in Cureus.

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10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Zaar

JUNE 1, 2025

Understand the Different Types of Diabetes Doctors Before searching for a diabetes doctor, it’s important to understand the types of medical professionals who treat Type 2 diabetes: Primary Care Physician (PCP): Often the first point of contact, they handle basic diabetes management.

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Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

Self-care and telemedicine for patients The options of teledermatology services, as well as self-care platforms, are soaring. Usually, patients go to their primary care physician for advice or try to ask in the pharmacy on the corner what the smiling pharmacists recommend.

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Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Relationships between patients and clinicians are at the core of primary care values. Setting or Dataset: The Green Center fielded surveys in partnership with the Primary Care Collaborative and 3rd Conversation. Patients indicated full-scope primary care even with telemedicine and social isolation.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

JULY 20, 2023

One positive change that came about was the lifting of restrictions around the use of telemedicine. Clinicians could care for patients across state lines, could prescribe opioids without in person visits, could bill at higher rates for telemedicine than previous to the pandemic. The pandemic was horrific in many ways.

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What to Expect During a Primary Care Visit

Primary Care Provider Perspectives at an Academic Medical Center: Are Telemedicine Visits as Effective as In-person Care? [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

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Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Traditional vs. Subscription Primary Care Payment Model: Which Fits You?

A qualitative evaluation of the implementation of a pre-consultation tool for older adults in primary care [Geriatrics]

Addressing diabetes management in the context of social needs: a qualitative study of primary care providers [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Role of General Practitioners in Acute Case Handling

The Evolution of Concierge Medicine: What 20 years in the industry have taught me

Early Prevention of Critical Illness in Older Adults: Adaptation and Pilot Testing of an Electronic Risk Score and Checklist [Geriatrics]

5 Questions to Ask Your Family Doctor

Underserved patients report positive experience with telehealth

10 Tips to Find the Best Diabetes Doctor for Type 2 Diabetes

Digital Skin Care: Top 8 Dermatology Apps

Patients Recognizing the Heart of Primary Care: Patient Indications of Relationship and Healing from Primary Care Clinicians [COVID-19]

Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

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