The Challenges of Measuring, Improving, and Reporting Quality in Primary Care.

abstract：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. We sought to explore the views of primary care physicians on the barriers and...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Wallis KA,Andrews A,Henderson M

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Adolescent mothers are at risk for rapidly becoming pregnant again and for depression, school dropout, and poor parenting. We evaluated the impact of a community-based home-visiting program on these outcomes and on linking the adolescents with primary care. METHODS:Pregnant adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, pre...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Barnet B,Liu J,DeVoe M,Alperovitz-Bichell K,Duggan AK

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Practice transformation in primary care is a movement toward data-driven redesign of care, patient-centered care delivery, and practitioner activation. A critical requirement for achieving practice transformation is availability of tools to engage practices. METHODS:A total of 48 practices with 109 practice si...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Khanna N,Gritzer L,Klyushnenkova E,Montgomery R,Dark M,Shah S,Shaya F

更新日期：2019-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Whether patients with 1 or more chronic illnesses are more or less likely to receive recommended preventive services is unclear and an important public health and health care system issue. We addressed this issue in a large national practice-based research network (PBRN) that maintains a longitudinal database d...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Ornstein SM,Jenkins RG,Litvin CB,Wessell AM,Nietert PJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The Seventh Report of the Joint National Commission (JNC 7) on High Blood Pressure established prehypertension (120 to 139 mm Hg systolic or 80 to 89 mm Hg diastolic) as a new risk category. We aim to determine the risk of major cardiovascular events associated with blood pressure in the prehypertensive range i...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Liszka HA,Mainous AG 3rd,King DE,Everett CJ,Egan BM

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our goal was to describe an approach to patient-centered medical home (PCMH) measurement based on delineating the desired properties of the measurement relative to assumptions about the PCMH and the uses of the measure by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) and health services researchers. METHODS:We de...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Alexander JA,Paustian M,Wise CG,Green LA,Fetters MD,Mason M,El Reda DK

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Persons with multiple chronic diseases must integrate self-management tasks for potentially interacting conditions to attain desired clinical outcomes. Our goal was to identify barriers to self-management that were associated with lower perceived health status and, secondarily, with lower reported physical func...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Bayliss EA,Ellis JL,Steiner JF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Bacterial pathogens are assumed to cause an illness course different from that of nonbacterial causes of acute cough, but evidence is lacking. We evaluated the disease course of lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) with a bacterial cause in adults with acute cough. METHODS:We conducted a secondary analysis...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Teepe J,Broekhuizen BD,Loens K,Lammens C,Ieven M,Goossens H,Little P,Butler CC,Coenen S,Godycki-Cwirko M,Verheij T,GRACE Consortium.

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Patient ratings of physician's patient-centered communication are used by various specialty credentialing organizations and managed care organizations as a measure of physician communication skills. We wanted to compare ratings by real patients with ratings by standardized patients of physician communication. ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Fiscella K,Franks P,Srinivasan M,Kravitz RL,Epstein R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The explosion of evidence in the last decade supporting the role of spirituality in whole-person patient care has prompted proposals for a move to a biopsychosocial-spiritual model for health. Making this paradigm shift in today's multicultural societies poses many challenges, however. This article presents 2 t...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Anandarajah G

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:This report describes outcomes of an ongoing quality-improvement project (VitalSign6) in a large US metropolitan area to improve recognition, treatment, and outcomes of depressed patients in 16 primary care clinics (6 charity clinics, 6 federally qualified health care centers, 2 private clinics serving low-inco...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Jha MK,Grannemann BD,Trombello JM,Clark EW,Eidelman SL,Lawson T,Greer TL,Rush AJ,Trivedi MH

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In this study, we compared the rate of depression diagnoses in adults with and without diabetes mellitus, while carefully controlling for number of primary care visits. METHODS:We matched adults with incident diabetes (n = 2,932) or prevalent diabetes (n = 14,144) to nondiabetic control patients based on (1) a...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： O'Connor PJ,Crain AL,Rush WA,Hanson AM,Fischer LR,Kluznik JC

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The risk of an injury increases exponentially with alcohol consumption on a given occasion, but the conclusion that alcohol-related injuries are attributable primarily to heavy drinking may or may not be correct. The prevention paradox states that a large number of people at small risk may contribute more cases...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Spurling MC,Vinson DC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Targeted interventions to reduce the risk and increase the early detection of melanoma have the potential to save lives. We aimed to assess the effect of such an intervention on patient prevention behavior. METHODS:We conducted a pilot clustered randomized controlled trial, comparing a targeted screening and e...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Rat C,Quereux G,Riviere C,Clouet S,Senand R,Volteau C,Dreno B,Nguyen JM

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The American Board of Family Medicine routinely surveys its Diplomates in each national graduating cohort 3 years out of training. These data were used to characterize early career family physicians whose services include management of pregnancy and prescribing buprenorphine. A total of 261 (5.1%) respondents both pro...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Louis JS,Eden AR,Morgan ZJ,Barreto TW,Peterson LE,Phillips RL Jr

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 5As (ask, advise, assess, assist, arrange) are recommended as a strategy for brief physical activity counseling in primary care. There is no reference standard for measurement, however, and patient participation is not well understood. This study's objectives were to (1) develop a coding scheme to measur...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Carroll JK,Antognoli E,Flocke SA

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：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...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Shaughnessy AF,Vaswani A,Andrews BK,Erlich DR,D'Amico F,Lexchin J,Cosgrove L

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to identify the strategies used to support patient behavior change by clinicians whose patients had an increase in patient activation. METHODS:This mixed methods study was conducted in collaboration with Fairview Health Services, a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization. We aggregated data on the chang...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Greene J,Hibbard JH,Alvarez C,Overton V

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Despite growing calls for team-based care, the current staff composition of primary care practices is unknown. We describe staffing patterns for primary care practices in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) initiative. METHODS:We undertook a descriptive analysi...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Peikes DN,Reid RJ,Day TJ,Cornwell DD,Dale SB,Baron RJ,Brown RS,Shapiro RJ

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When I began experiencing chest pain that was different from my usual heartburn symptoms, I denied I could possibly be having a heart attack, but chewed 4 baby aspirin just in case. Despite years of community education about the need to call 911 and seek immediate emergency care when experiencing signs and symptoms of...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Stausmire JM,Greenbaum MG,Morelli-Greenbaum M

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Previous studies suggest that the highest-risk patients value accessible, coordinated primary care that they perceive to be of high technical quality. We have limited understanding, however, of how low-income, chronically ill patients and the staff who care for them experience each individual step in the primar...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Brown EJ,Kangovi S,Sha C,Johnson S,Chanton C,Carter T,Grande DT

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of this study was to examine the association between the prevalence of both diabetes-concordant and diabetes-discordant conditions and the quality of diabetes care at the family practice level in England. We hypothesized that the prevalence of concordant (or discordant) conditions would be associate...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Ricci-Cabello I,Stevens S,Kontopantelis E,Dalton AR,Griffiths RI,Campbell JL,Doran T,Valderas JM

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:A randomized controlled trial found that patients with diabetes had lower HbA1c levels after 6 months of peer health coaching than patients who did not receive coaching. This paper explores whether the peer coaches in that trial, all low-income patients with diabetes, mastered and utilized an evidence-based hea...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Goldman ML,Ghorob A,Hessler D,Yamamoto R,Thom DH,Bodenheimer T

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Most new mothers return to work soon after childbirth. A need exists to reexamine the definition of postpartum health and evaluate employed women's recovery from childbirth in association with such factors as delivery type and breastfeeding. METHODS:Using a prospective cohort design, we recruited Minnesota wom...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： McGovern P,Dowd B,Gjerdingen D,Gross CR,Kenney S,Ukestad L,McCaffrey D,Lundberg U

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Primary care practices in the United Kingdom have received substantial financial rewards for achieving standards set out in the Quality and Outcomes Framework since April 2004. This article reviews the growing evidence for the impact of the framework on the quality of primary medical care. METHODS:Five hundred...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Gillam SJ,Siriwardena AN,Steel N

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We sought to describe the proportion of patients in contact with a primary care physician, as well as the total number of primary care contacts over a 2-year period, using the 2002-2017 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey. The rate of any contact with a primary care physician for patients in the population decreased by 2...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Johansen ME,Niforatos JD

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Practice transformation is the cornerstone of the future of family medicine and health care reform, but little is known about how the process occurs. We sought to develop and test a model of the natural history of practice transformation. METHODS:We developed an outcomes-based model of how a practice moves thr...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Donahue KE,Newton WP,Lefebvre A,Plescia M

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To address doubts regarding National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) generalizability, we analyzed over 6,000 lung cancer screenings (LCSs) within a community health system. METHODS:Our LCS program included 10 sites, 7 hospitals (2 non-university tertiary care, 5 community) and 3 free-standing imaging centers. Pri...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Handy JR Jr,Skokan M,Rauch E,Zinck S,Sanborn RE,Kotova S,Wang M

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We wanted to explore the context of help seeking for reproductive and nonreproductive health concerns by urban adolescent girls. METHODS:We undertook a qualitative study using in-depth interviews of African American and Latina girls (n = 22) aged 13 to 19 years attending public high schools in the Bronx, NY. ...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： McKee MD,Karasz A,Weber CM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This narrative presents my personal reflections as a medical anthropology researcher, and my journey as a chronic patient suffering for 30 years from ulcerative colitis. My surgeon promised me "a new life" after recommending a total colectomy 20 years ago. Indeed, a new life did begin following surgery, but I find I m...

journal_title：Annals of family medicine

authors： Finkelstein A

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00