New Framework Urges Health Systems to Measure Trust and Continuity in Primary Care
A new viewpoint in the Journal of General Internal Medicine proposes a Primary Care Value Dashboard that would measure access, ...
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Women With Autoimmune Disease Face Longer Waits and More Psychiatric Misdiagnoses
A study of 6,607 patients across multiple autoimmune diseases finds that women report longer diagnostic delays, more clinician visits, and ...
Every Day of Waiting Counts: Decade-Long Study Reveals Why Children Miss Specialist Appointments
A 10-year audit of over 156,000 pediatric referrals in Singapore found that each additional 30 days of waiting raised the ...
Why Men Avoid NHS Obesity Clinics: New Study Reveals the Barriers
A qualitative study of men who completed an NHS Tier 3 weight management programme finds that cultural norms of masculinity ...
Why Patients Rarely Shop Around When Choosing a Primary Care Provider
A Swedish qualitative study identifies five contextual conditions, from invisible quality differences to care continuity, that explain why patients rarely ...
New Risk Calculator Predicts Cholesterol Spikes in Diabetes Patients
Researchers in Guangzhou have developed and externally validated a seven-variable nomogram that predicts one-, three-, and five-year risk of LDL-C ...
Digital Geriatric Assessment Shows Promise but Struggles to Reach Routine Care in China
A qualitative study of ten Chinese integrated care institutions finds that an app-based electronic geriatric assessment tool was widely valued ...
Four Years of Pandemic Diabetes Care Reveal a Lasting Shift Toward Virtual Medicine
A four-year cohort study found that diabetes care during the COVID-19 pandemic shifted durably toward telemedicine and intensified drug therapy ...
Money, Not Medicine: Economic Instability Keeps Female Cancer Survivors From the Care They Need
A decade of Maryland survey data shows that unemployment, low income, and renting each sharply reduce the odds that female ...
Blood Test Trends Outperform Single Abnormalities in Flagging Hidden Cancer After Weight Loss
A large UK cohort study finds that tracking blood test trends over time, once adjusted for age and sex, discriminates ...
Long COVID Care Moves to the Frontline as Doctors Get a Practical Playbook
A new Journal of General Internal Medicine review gives primary care clinicians a pragmatic framework for diagnosing and managing Long ...
Seed Funding and Mentorship Help Residencies Grow the HIV Clinician Workforce
A one-year federally funded pilot provided seed money, mentorship, and a shared toolkit to six residency programs in high HIV ...
What Emergency Departments Tell Older Adults About Follow-Up Care Often Falls Short
A multisite content analysis finds that emergency department discharge instructions for older adults often fail to specify the purpose, provider, ...
Moral Infrastructure: Why Honest Medicine Depends on Working Conditions, Not Just Character
A new perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that medicine's ethical crisis stems from eroding working conditions, ...
Addiction Training Cuts Physician Stigma by Building Confidence, National Survey Finds
A nationally representative survey of 855 U.S. primary care and emergency department physicians finds that addiction training reduces provider stigma ...
When a Patient Asks ‘Am I Keeping You From Something Important?’, Medicine Has a Design Problem
Physicians argue that a patient's simple question about divided attention exposes a system-level design flaw in modern primary care communication, ...
Nightmare Therapy Moves Into Primary Care and Emergency Rooms to Reach Trauma Survivors
Researchers are bringing standardized cognitive behavioral therapy for nightmares into primary care and emergency departments to reach trauma survivors who ...
Simple Conversation Cards Reshape Diabetes Visits, Video Study Shows
A randomized trial found that simple QBSAFE conversation cards shifted primary care diabetes visits toward discussions of treatment burden and ...
Frontline Doctors in Palestine Miss Key Signs of Seizures That Devastate Infants
A survey of 419 physicians in the West Bank found that fewer than half had good knowledge of infantile epileptic ...
Long COVID Leaves Lasting Mark on Health and Care Trust in Belgian Adults, Survey Finds
A large Belgian survey of primary care patients aged 45 and older finds that Long COVID affects about one in ...
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