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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Therefore, we have developed Proactive, a self-administered screening questionnaire that enables older people to independently monitor their risk of functional decline. Participants' comments while completing Proactive provided a qualitative assessment of the validity of the response process, and interviews assessed social validity.

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Screening Primary Care Clinic Patient-Centered 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cross panel strategies where consensus was reached included: (1) educating PC providers on survivorship guidelines, (2) enabling screening reminders, templates, and monitoring alerts in the electronic medical record, (3) educating patients on survivorship and communicating needs with PC, and (4) increasing oncology-PC communications.

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Primary Care Screening Education Electronics 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided by one full time poverty lawyer and paralegal January 2021-June 2023. Participating clinic sites offered convenience sample frame, patients with legal needs were identified through universal and secondary screening approach.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context While poverty is a risk factor for many chronic conditions, when it is recognized by care providers social screening can be used to positively impact patients’ health. Three quarters (78.5%) of eligible patients were screened for poverty, and of these a third (35.8%) screened positive.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

4 expert faculty members developed session curriculum: screening and diagnosis, using behavioral health/counseling, addressing harm reduction, among others. Participants were more confident in screening and diagnosing, harm reduction, and motivational interviewing. Population studied: PC teams (clinical and non-clinical roles).

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Primary Care Education Individual Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Healthcare sites provide an opportunity to identify and respond to human trafficking (HT). Training students to provide care and respond using a trauma informed approach can help ensure our healthcare sites are places of healing and not re-traumatization.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Addressing mental health and HRSNs can improve diabetes outcomes, but stigma surrounding these issues can make both patients and providers uncomfortable during clinical discussions. Consequently, clinicians may avoid these stigmatized topics and provide general recommendations that can’t be followed by patients.

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Mental Health Diabetes Relationship Primary Care 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Using a semi-structured interview guide, we invited participants to describe their experiences and expectations related to social risk screening and social interventions. Participants also valued the extent to which the screening, follow up, or resource attainment they received aligned with their expectations and priorities.

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Patients Screening Relationship Healthcare 130

Mesa Family Physician

MARCH 13, 2025

As your trusted healthcare providers in Mesa, Arizona, we’re committed to helping you understand and access the preventive services that can keep you and your family healthy for years to come. In Arizona’s climate, skin cancer screenings are particularly important given our high sun exposure.

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Preventive Care Preventative Care Family Physician Screening 100

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. are needed to reach US CRC screening goals. Outcome Measures: Process map that illuminates workflow of CRC screening in participating clinics.

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Primary Care Screening Primary Care Physician Clinic 130

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 14, 2025

But skipping cholesterol screenings in your 20s and 30s could eventually put you at risk for serious health problems. Here’s why younger adults should prioritize cholesterol screenings. Know Your Baseline Your first cholesterol screening in your 20s or 30s provides a baseline for future test results.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To synthesize literature on pain-related medication in adults with ID and examine how it relates to MLTCs and polypharmacy and explore the views of adults with ID, caregivers and healthcare providers on pain medication use. Screening completed by two independent reviewers; conflicts resolved through consensus.

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Management Medical Healthcare Professional Chronic Condition 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Patient messaging to providers has dramatically increased since the pandemic, leading to informatics efforts to categorize messages to facilitate more efficient review. Setting Video call and screen share via Teams. Population Studied 10 female primary care providers and 1 male providers.

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Primary Care Management Primary Care Physician Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Despite it being the fourth most common cancer in women, many Somali American women do not receive routine screening for cervical cancer. HPV-only testing is effective for cervical cancer screening and recommended by U.S. guidelines. Each transcript was double coded, including at least one coder who identified as Somali.

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Screening Routine Screenings Healthcare Patients 130

Myriad Genetics

APRIL 15, 2024

Less invasive options like prenatal cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screens can also be used to help identify the microdeletion. According to a study in Genes (Basel) , cfDNA screens have “a 70–83% detection rate and a 40–50% positive predictive value (PPV) for most associated 22q microdeletions.” J Med Genet  1998;  35 : 789–790.

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Screening Patient-Centered Diagnosis Healthcare 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Black and Latinx women have higher incidence of cervical cancer diagnosis and lower rates of cervical cancer screening than non-Latinx White women. Self-collected high-risk human papillomavirus (HPV) testing has been proposed as a method to address these barriers to screening and prevent cervical cancer.

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Screening Patient-Centered Insurance Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Prenatal care can be difficult for patients to accomplish, with frequent visits and time-sensitive health screenings. Patient interviews, providing qualitative information to augment study findings. In-person visits are preferred by patients, however, because of the direct interaction with their providers.

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Patients Clinic Utilities Provider 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design and Analysis: Tele-legal services were provided over 30 months, with correlating Medicaid claims data. Intervention/Instrument: Legal-needs screening tool. Clinics: AF Williams Family Medicine, Lowry Internal Medicine.

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Primary Care Medical Behavioral Health Services Utilities 130

Imperial Center Family Medicine

APRIL 21, 2025

What exactly is the difference between a lipid panel and a cholesterol screening ? This blog will help you understand basic terms, concepts, and expectations related to cholesterol screenings. Grasping the differences between a cholesterol screening and a lipid panel can help you better interpret your results.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Screening for social needs has become increasingly expected in primary care settings, with multiple regulatory bodies and value-based care payors emphasizing the importance of incorporating screening into routine care. Oftentimes, these barriers/limitations of screening seem to contradict specific reasons for screening (e.g.,

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Screening Primary Care Healthcare Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Screening for gestational diabetes (GDM) at recommended times, based on a pregnant woman’s risk for GDM, is important in order to initiate and optimize the management of GDM as early as possible, thus mitigating the risk of several adverse outcomes for both pregnant women and their offspring.

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Screening Diabetes Primary Care Family Physician 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

SUD screening is not universally done in primary care (PC). In our institution, screenings are completed for patients ≥15 years during well visits; those not presenting for well visits and under 15 may represent missed opportunities. A score ≥2 constitutes a positive screen for possible substance misuse.

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Primary Care Screening Referral Wellness Visit 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 3, 2025

I get the feeling that non-providers think of this as something fairly ordinary, and even reasonable. Sometimes a patient does need a lot of non-provider time, for example to get undressed and ready for a Pap smear. And we need to risk a provider sometimes having fifteen unscheduled minutes. We also sometimes double book them.

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Patients Appointment Patient-Centered Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study Design Guided by the ecological model, we partnered with healthcare providers, city revitalization initiatives, the local arts community, and community stakeholders to shape the messaging content for the campaign. We launched a targeted dissemination campaign to share registry results and promote PAD awareness.

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Community Patient-Centered Utilities Diagnosis 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Occupational therapists were considered to have a major role in preventing fragility because of their competencies to screen for risk factors and provide early interventions.

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Primary Care DO Family Medicine Mental Health 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Preventive Services Task Force recommends screening for CRC in adults aged 45 to 49 years (grade B), all adults aged 50 to 75 years (grade A), and selectively offering CRC screening in adults aged 76 to 85 years (grade C). We further eliminated respondents if they were missing data on any of the variables in the study.

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Provider Screening Medical Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The top three nursing activities based on the final mean score were: Assessing dimensions of pain experience, Screening signs and symptoms of mood disorders, and Establish a therapeutic alliance with empathic approach.

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Primary Care Management Chronic Disease Management Finance 130

A Country Doctor Writes

JUNE 11, 2025

The past medical history has historically been abused by other specialty providers using a common EMR. If anyone wanted to know that there were bibasilar rales or that the EKG was normal or that the last potassium was fine or that the patient had changed her diet against medical advice, it would be there, further down the screen.)

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Primary Care Patient-Centered Medical Advice Screening 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A copy of the presentation was provided for those unable to attend to enhance participation in the survey. Improved interpretation and management of syphilis screening results after intervention Results: Survey questions assessing knowledge had variable performance with net poor discrimination after the educational intervention.

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DO Family Medicine Screening Education 130

Medical Xpress

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

An analysis in BJUI Compass found that the top 50 videos populated for the search term "prostate cancer screening" on both YouTube and TikTok do not provide quality consumer health information.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Study design and analysis: For a SWcRT aiming at scaling up SDM for prenatal screening of trisomy in Quebec, descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative thematic analysis were performed to have recruitment insights. We aim at describing the challenges and levers to recruitment of sites for an SDM SWcRT.

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Clinic Family Medicine DO Relationship 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.

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Screening Primary Care Patient-Centered IT 120

Alabama Academy of Family Physicians

MAY 15, 2025

Ed Oliver, HB 45 would require the Alabama Medicaid Agency to cover any noninvasive colorectal cancer screening test assigned a grade A or B under the recommendations of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. HB 45 – Medicaid Coverage for Cologuard Test What’s in the Bill: Sponsored by Rep.

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Insurance Family Physician Hospital Management 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Behavioral Health Providers, BHPs). Visits were largely scheduled individual visits (85%), provided in person (70%), and involving psychotherapy (90%). Process maps revealed similar processes across BHPs/practices with some differences in completing screening and rooming and scheduling patients. Intervention: NA.

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Primary Care Provider Illness Consulting 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Additional searches included searches on Google Scholar, manual searches, citation tracking and reference list screening. A community consultation identified the evaluation of the cost of providing sign language interpreters (or not) as a top research priority. Popay et al.’s

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Finance Community Consulting Primary Care 130

Hitchcock Family Medicine

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preventive Care Primary doctors can offer preventive care to their patients, which typically includes check-ups and screenings to prevent them from contracting illnesses. Primary care physicians can also provide health promotion education or counseling to help patients care for themselves.

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