Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainA study of more than 1 million adults has found that in primary care, telemedicine visits were comparable to in-person visits for addressing most patient clinical concern areas. Telemedicine visits resulted in lower treatment rates and higher rates of follow-up health care use compared with in-person office visits, but these differences were...
Marcia Frellick August 14, 2023 Four themes in responses to a survey describe the multilevel barriers that make it difficult for primary care teams to incorporate medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) in their practices, according to research published in JAMA Network Open. Elizabeth J. Austin, PhD, MPH, with the department of health systems and population health at...
by University of Pittsburgh Model Schematic for 3 Strategies Integrating Addiction Care Into Primary Care The 3 strategies were (1) primary care practitioner (PCP) services with external referral to addiction care (status quo), (2) PCP services plus onsite buprenorphine prescribing with referral to offsite harm reduction kits (BUP), and (3) PCP services plus onsite buprenorphine prescribing...
Matthew F. Watto, MD; Paul N. Williams, MD DISCLOSURES March 24, 2023 Matthew F. Watto, MD: Welcome back to The Curbsiders. Today we’re going to be talking about attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). We had a great guest, Dr Kevin Simon, who taught us all about this. Paul, is it possible for adults to develop ADHD de novo? Paul N. Williams, MD: I’m...
Michael E. Bowen, MD, MPH, MSCS DISCLOSURES March 28, 2023 In the United States, primary care providers (PCPs) manage over 75% of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Thus, PCPs are uniquely positioned to improve the glycemic control and cardiometabolic health of patients with T2D. In recent years, emerging data on the role of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors and glucagon-like...
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS Japanese researchers examined the association between primary care practice characteristics and total hospitalizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. They conducted a nationwide study and examined data from 1,161 participants ages 40-75. They assessed the quality of primary care attributes, including first contact between the patient and a primary care clinician, length of care,...
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF FAMILY PHYSICIANS IMAGE: KLOCKE, C. PATIENTS’ EXPERIENCES WITH THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES FOR POST-COVID SYNDROME: RESULTS OF A CROWDSOURCES RESEARCH SURVEY CREDIT: ANNALS OF FAMILY MEDICINE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Many people are experiencing a variety of long COVID-19 symptoms and are relying on some of their own methods to allay those symptoms. Others are...
by Indiana University Screenshot of OneSheet, annotated. © 2022 Epic Systems Corporation. Credit: JAMIA Open (2022). DOI: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooac074 The Chronic Pain OneSheet, a clinical decision support tool developed by the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, is now available for all primary care providers this month at Eskenazi Health. Designed to help primary care providers treat patients with...
Vera Gibb, DNP, MSN April 25, 2022 Globally, migraine is second among leading causes of years lived with disability. Migraine affects about 15% of the US population and is one of the most common and debilitating conditions encountered by primary care providers (PCPs). About 1 in 10 patients present with a complaint of headache to their PCP and 75% of these patients have...
by University of Manchester Credit: Estzer Miller on Pixabay Psoriasis may be underdiagnosed in UK primary care settings, according to research led by researchers from The University of Manchester. The findings, published in the British Journal of General Practice, show that missed opportunities for early diagnosis of the potentially debilitating condition are relatively common in general practice....
