A new study reports on the development and implementation of digital survey methods that could replace a form of paper-based surveys, known as card studies, in clinic-based research. While card studies are useful for collecting ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Researchers from Mathematica and Weill Cornell Medicine conducted a study to examine communication between primary care physicians and specialist physicians about their common patients, using data collected as part of the ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Through a series of patient visit episodes, members of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicians demonstrate how the recently updated International ...
Jul 26, 2022
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Public health researchers in Canada developed an interactive, web-based guide to help family physicians better address a wide range of patient concerns related to the COVID-19 vaccine. To ensure relevancy, the researchers ...
Jul 26, 2022
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A study of clinics' and primary care doctors' means of dispensing abortion medications during the pandemic may offer clinicians guidance for doing so in a post-Roe world.
Jul 18, 2022
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A new study in the Annals of Family Medicine examines usage data from a provincial electronic consultation (eConsult) service in Ontario, Canada, which facilitates rapid and secure communications between primary care physicians ...
May 25, 2022
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While the use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) in the primary care setting may lead to faster and more precise diagnoses and referrals, overscreening can lead to unintended harms to patients, including over- or under-diagnosis ...
May 24, 2022
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People with chronic kidney disease (CKD) require levels of acute care three to eight times higher than the general population for comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. It is unclear how ...
May 24, 2022
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Researchers in Spain have conducted a study to compare the diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasounds (LUS) performed in the primary care setting to chest X-rays (CXR) performed by a radiologist when diagnosing community-acquired ...
May 24, 2022
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The stepped wedge cluster randomized trial (SW-CRT) is a research methodology that has been growing in popularity, particularly for pragmatic implementation and dissemination trials. SW-CRTs can have advantages over parallel ...
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