Tag: primary care

A qualitative study of 82 clinicians from two health networks found shared views of depression and anxiety but differences in ...

Scoping review finds effective tools for embedding smoking cessation in primary care

A scoping review of 30 studies found that coordinated counselling, medication, electronic health record support and financial measures can improve ...

Pre-infection COVID-19 vaccination linked to fewer complaints in Indonesian patients with diabetes

A cross-sectional Indonesian study found a 45% higher rate of daily health complaints among never-vaccinated people with diabetes than among ...

Survey finds gaps in Jakarta diabetic retinopathy screening

A survey of 31 Jakarta service respondents found low priority for diabetic retinopathy, limited guideline awareness and uneven diagnostic capacity, ...

Inside Medicare’s Physician Payment Reform Illusion of Inaction

A firsthand account of Medicare payment reform shows how public inaction can conceal intensive legislative work, persistent budget constraints and ...

Deprivation-linked prevalence of 209 conditions varied across 12.7 million English patients

A linked-record study of 12.7 million patients found widespread but highly variable differences across 209 chronic conditions by area-level deprivation ...

Ending a Language-Concordant Phone Line Could Reshape Access and Care

Study examines closure of a language-concordant health-care phone line

A research report by Sahoko H. Little and Michael Amano examines the discontinuation of a language-concordant phone line and its ...

Urgent Care Centers Cut Low-Acuity Emergency Department Visits by Up to 42 Percent in Italian Region

A real-world evaluation in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region found that community-based urgent care centers reduced low-acuity emergency department visits by up ...

Cheap Hearing Aids Work Far Better When an Expert Helps You Fit Them

A large randomized trial in China found that older adults who received physician or remote audiologist support gained significantly more ...

Patients Redesign the Questions Hospitals Ask About Their Social Needs

At Boston Medical Center, 37 patients speaking English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole co-designed a social needs screening tool, revealing that ...

Team-Based Message Protocols Ease the EHR Inbox Burden on Primary Care Doctors

A large quality improvement study found that embedding standardized message-handling protocols for medical assistants and nurses modestly reduced the share ...

Why Young Doctors in Rural China Plan to Leave: Leadership and Family Life Hold the Key

A qualitative study of 26 rural-oriented medical students in Guangxi, China, finds that only about 23 percent intend to stay ...

Marginalization and Missing Primary Care Linked to Early Death in Metastatic Breast Cancer

An Ontario study of more than 4,000 patients found that social marginalization and lack of a primary care provider significantly ...

Heart Disease Risk in Transgender Adults Remains Dangerously Understudied, Researchers Warn

A new perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that transgender adults face elevated cardiovascular disease risk regardless ...

When Doctors Talk, Patients Get Screened: Communication Gaps Drive Colorectal Cancer Disparities

A new cross-sectional study of Black and Hispanic primary care patients finds that patient-centered communication, health literacy, age, and race ...

EHR Algorithm Boosts Latent TB Screening Under California’s New Law

A UC San Diego Health team built an EHR algorithm to meet California's new latent TB screening mandate, driving a ...

Inside the Teams That Keep High-Risk Patients Out of the Hospital

A multisite VA evaluation finds that intensive primary care teams perform care coordination activities that map cleanly onto all nine ...

Months on a waiting list: GPs become the safety net for teens in mental health limbo

A national survey of 190 Australian GPs finds teenagers wait nearly two months for psychologists and four months for psychiatrists, ...

Why Asking Patients What Matters Most Could Fix Fragmented Care

Researchers argue that clarifying what matters most to patients with multiple chronic conditions should come first in shared decision-making, especially ...

Scheduled Portal Time Emerges as a Practical Answer to Physician Inbox Burnout