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Family Medicine, OhioHealth Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio.

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American Academy of Family Physicians, Leawood, KS.

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University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Purpose: Population health is of growing importance in the changing health care environment. The Cooperative Extension Service, housed in each state's land grant university, has a major impact on population health through its many community-based efforts, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-Ed) nutrition programs, 4-H youth engagement, health and wellness education, and community development. Can the agricultural and health sectors, which usually operate in parallel, mostly unknown to each other, collaborate to address population health? We set out to provide an overview of the collaboration between the Cooperative Extension Service and the health sector in various states and describe a case study of 1 model as it developed in New Mexico. Read More

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The Ohio State University, Nisonger Center, Ohio Disability & Health Program, Columbus, Ohio.

We explored health care differences across the lifespan comparing people with developmental disabilities to people without developmental disabilities. Health care disparities are inequities occurring during the provision of and in access to health care that are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations. We discovered significant disparities between persons with and without developmental disabilities in health status, quality, utilization, access, and unmet health care needs. Read More

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Population Health Research Institute, St George's University of London, United Kingdom.

Purpose: Adults with intellectual disabilities experience poorer physical health and health care quality, but there is limited information on the potential for reducing emergency hospital admissions in this population. We describe overall and preventable emergency admissions for adults with vs without intellectual disabilities in England and assess differences in primary care management before admission for 2 common ambulatory care-sensitive conditions (ACSCs).

Methods: We used electronic records to study a cohort of 16,666 adults with intellectual disabilities and 113,562 age-, sex-, and practice-matched adults without intellectual disabilities from 343 English family practices. Read More

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Primary Care Patient Safety (PISA) Research Group, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales

Purpose: A culture of blame and fear of retribution are recognized barriers to reporting patient safety incidents. The extent of blame attribution in safety incident reports, which may reflect the underlying safety culture of health care systems, is unknown. This study set out to explore the nature of blame in family practice safety incident reports. Read More

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Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, Baltimore, Maryland.

Purpose: Risk-stratified care management is essential to improving population health in primary care settings, but evidence is limited on the type of risk stratification method and its association with care management services.

Methods: We describe risk stratification patterns and association with care management services for primary care practices in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. We undertook a qualitative approach to categorize risk stratification methods being used by CPC practices and tested whether these stratification methods were associated with delivery of care management services. Read More

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Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

Purpose: Smoking cessation after a diagnosis of lung, bladder, and upper aerodigestive tract cancer appears to improve survival, and support to quit would improve cessation. The aims of this study were to assess how often general practitioners provide active smoking cessation support for these patients and whether physician behavior is influenced by incentive payments.

Methods: Using electronic primary care records from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink, 12,393 patients with incident cases of cancer diagnosed between 1999 and 2013 were matched 1 to 1 to patients with incident cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) diagnosed during the same time. Read More

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Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

Purpose: Health insurance coverage affects a patient's ability to access optimal care, the percentage of insured patients on a clinic's panel has an impact on the clinic's ability to provide needed health care services, and there are racial and ethnic disparities in coverage in the United States. Thus, we aimed to assess changes in insurance coverage at community health center (CHC) visits after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion by race and ethnicity.

Methods: We undertook a retrospective, observational study of visit payment type for CHC patients aged 19 to 64 years. Read More

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Division of Primary Care and Population Health, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California

Purpose: Scribes are increasingly being used in clinical practice despite a lack of high-quality evidence regarding their effects. Our objective was to evaluate the effect of medical scribes on physician satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and charting efficiency.

Methods: We conducted a randomized controlled trial in which physicians in an academic family medicine clinic were randomized to 1 week with a scribe then 1 week without a scribe for the course of 1 year. Read More

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School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Purpose: Primary care physicians spend nearly 2 hours on electronic health record (EHR) tasks per hour of direct patient care. Demand for non-face-to-face care, such as communication through a patient portal and administrative tasks, is increasing and contributing to burnout. The goal of this study was to assess time allocated by primary care physicians within the EHR as indicated by EHR user-event log data, both during clinic hours (defined as 8:00 am to 6:00 pm Monday through Friday) and outside clinic hours. Read More

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Department of Counseling and School Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.

Background: Clinicians are faced with a plethora of guidelines. To rate guidelines, they can select from a number of evaluation tools, most of which are long and difficult to apply. The goal of this project was to develop a simple, easy-to-use checklist for clinicians to use to identify trustworthy, relevant, and useful practice guidelines, the Guideline Trustworthiness, Relevance, and Utility Scoring Tool (G-TRUST). Read More

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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

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Division of Clinical Public Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

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Rush Medical College, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

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AAFP News.

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Université de Sherbrooke.

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STFM Director of Publications and Community.

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Communication Department, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts.

All of us have an "inner life" that forms the core of who we are. It shapes and is shaped by our actions and experiences. During physician training, attention to residents' inner life requires a focus on their beliefs and emotions as well as their ethical and spiritual development, topics often considered to be outside the realm of clinical training and practice. Read More

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Independent Physicians, SC, Madison, Wisconsin

Over the span of their career, physicians experience changes to their professional role and professional identity. The process of continual adaptation in their work setting incurs losses. These losses can be ambiguous, cumulative, and may require grieving. Read More

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Primary Health Care, Inc, Marshalltown, Iowa

"Why can't you be like my old doctor?" This essay explores my experiences as a new family physician in a rural town endemic with liberal opioid prescribing practices and opioid addiction. I detail my inner turmoil while overcoming resistance to change, the influence of these experiences on my professional growth, and my decision to offer medication-assisted treatment. Read More

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Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

The year 2016 marked the 20th anniversary of the hospitalist profession, with more than 50,000 physicians identifying as hospitalists. The Achilles heel of hospitalist medicine, however, is discontinuity. Despite many current payment and delivery systems rewarding this discontinuity and severing long-term relationships between patient and primary care teams at the hospital door, primary care does not stop being important when a person is admitted to the hospital. Read More

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Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that health insurance plans include sufficient access to behavioral health providers, but lacks specific guidelines to define sufficient access Using a secret shopper methodology, we called behavioral health providers in the Denver metropolitan area networked with 3 large insurance companies. We found that, depending on insurance company and level of training, 9.8% to 59% of providers could offer a new patient appointment, with psychiatry appointments being particularly difficult to schedule. Read More

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WWAMI Rural Health Research Center, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.

Opioid use disorder is a serious public health problem. Management with buprenorphine is an effective, office-based, medication-assisted treatment, but 60.1% of rural counties in the United States lack a physician with a Drug Enforcement Agency waiver to prescribe buprenorphine. Read More

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Inserm UMR1027, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier; Faculté de Médecine, Toulouse, France.

In France, most cases of opioid use disorder are treated with buprenorphine by general practitioners in private practice. Using reimbursement data of a representative sample of the French population, Echantillon Généraliste des Bénéficiaires, we investigated mortality during periods when patients were in and out of treatment in a cohort of 713 new users of buprenorphine having a mean (SD) follow-up of 4.5 (1. Read More

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Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark.

Purpose: To reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing, we sought to develop a clinical decision rule for the diagnosis of acute rhinosinusitis and acute bacterial rhinosinusitis.

Methods: Multivariate analysis and classification and regression tree (CART) analysis were used to develop clinical decision rules for the diagnosis of acute rhinosinusitis, defined using 3 different reference standards (purulent antral puncture fluid or abnormal finding on a computed tomographic (CT) scan; for acute bacterial rhinosinusitis, we used a positive bacterial culture of antral fluid). Signs, symptoms, C-reactive protein (CRP), and reference standard tests were prospectively recorded in 175 Danish patients aged 18 to 65 years seeking care for suspected acute rhinosinusitis. Read More

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Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Purpose: Avoidable hospitalizations due to adverse drug events and high-risk prescribing are common in older people. Primary care physicians prescribe most on-going medicines. Deprescribing has long been essential to best prescribing practice. Read More

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Institute of Health and Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle, England (Anderson, Kaner, Parkinson); Department of Family Medicine, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands (Anderson); Centre for Health Service Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, England (Coulton); Department of Medical Specialist and Department of Medicine and Health, Linköping University, Motala, Sweden (Bendtsen); Independent Laboratory of Family Physician Education, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Poland (Kłoda, Mierzecki); Psychiatry Department, Neurosciences Institute, Hospital Clínic, IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain (Reynolds, Gual); Program on Substance Abuse, Public Health Agency, Government of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain (Segura); Department of Psychiatry, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland (Wojnar); National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, London, England (Deluca, Drummond); Health and Social Care Institute, Teesside University, Middesbrough, United Kingdom (Newbury-Birch); State Agency for Prevention of Alcohol-Related Problems, Warsaw, Poland (Okulicz-Kozaryn); National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London, England (Drummond).

Purpose: We aimed to test whether 3 strategies-training and support, financial reimbursement, and an option to direct screen-positive patients to an Internet-based method of giving brief advice-have a longer-term effect on primary care clinicians' delivery of screening and advice to heavy drinkers operationalized with the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test-Consumption (AUDIT-C) tool.

Methods: We undertook a cluster randomized factorial trial with a 12-week implementation period in 120 primary health care units throughout Catalonia, England, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden. Units were randomized to 8 groups: care as usual (control); training and support alone; financial reimbursement alone; electronic brief advice alone; paired combinations of these conditions; and all 3 combined. Read More

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Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Purpose: Many chlamydia infections are identified through screening, which is frequently offered to females concomitantly with cervical cancer screening. Recent cervical cancer screening guidelines recommend screening less frequently and starting later. We sought to evaluate the impact of the May 2012 Ontario, Canada, cervical cancer screening guideline change on Papanicolaou (Pap) and chlamydia trachomatis (chlamydia) testing and incidence. Read More

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Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Medicine and Primary Care, Washington, DC.

Purpose: Despite considerable investment in increasing the number of primary care physicians in rural shortage areas, little is known about their movement rates and factors influencing their mobility. We aimed to characterize geographic mobility among rural primary care physicians, and to identify location and individual factors that influence such mobility.

Methods: Using data from the American Medical Association Physician Masterfile for each clinically active US physician, we created seven 2-year (biennial) mobility periods during 2000-2014. Read More

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Grant Family Medicine, Ohio Health, Columbus, Ohio

Purpose: This study compared ecology (number of individuals using a service), utilization (number of services used), and expenditures (dollars spent) for various categories of medical services between primarily 1996-1997 and 2011-2012.

Methods: A repeated cross-sectional study was performed using nationally representative data mainly from the 1996, 1997, 2011, and 2012 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). These data were augmented with the 2002-2003 MEPS as well as the 1999-2000 and 2011-2012 National Heath and Nutrition Examination Survey. Read More

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Neighborhood Family Practice, Cleveland, Ohio

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Seaport Community Health Center, Belfast, Maine

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Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Washington, DC.

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