The maintenance of an accurate problem list is essential to making informed decisions about a patient’s treatment, identifying risks and care gaps, and ensuring continuity of care. As the number and variety of clinicians included in the care of any…
On average, primary care physicians (PCPs) receive between 10 and 25 prescription refill requests per day and spend an average of 30 minutes per day assessing and responding to refill requests. Many practices coordinate chronic daily medication prescription renewals with…
Advance care planning is a billable, face-to-face service between a physician (or other provider) and a patient and/or surrogate to discuss and make known the patient’s health care wishes in case the patient becomes unable to make health care decisions…
In October 2011, CMS began covering annual depression screening for Medicare beneficiaries in the primary care setting when performed by clinical staff who can advise the physician of screening results and who can help facilitate and coordinate referrals for mental…
When plastic breaks down into microplastic particles, they pollute the environment and numerous studies have found they infiltrate multiple organ systems and tissues. In fact, a 2022 study in Environmental International estimated that microplastics were circulating in the blood of…
When plastic breaks down into microplastic particles, they pollute the environment and numerous studies have found they infiltrate multiple organ systems and tissues. In fact, a 2022 study in Environmental International estimated that microplastics were circulating in the blood of…
Dr Heather Farley, AMA Vice President of Professional Satisfaction, joins Dr Elizabeth Harry, chief well-being officer at Michigan Medicine, Carolyn Winslow, PhD, organizational research psychologist and well-being research & analytics lead at the Michigan Medicine Office of Well-Being, and Ken…
Dr Mark Schildt, Chief Wellness Officer at El Rio Health, shares how they became the first Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to earn Gold-level recognition from the American Medical Association’s Joy in MedicineÆ Program in 2024. He describes El Rio’s…
What would it take to make cervical cancer a disease of the past? In this episode of Clinically Significantô, host Maylyn Martinez, MD, MSc, sits down with Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, and Jodi Abbott, MD, MSc, MHCM, to break down…
What would it take to make cervical cancer a disease of the past? In this episode of Clinically Significant™, host Maylyn Martinez, MD, MSc, sits down with Rebecca Perkins, MD, MSc, and Jodi Abbott, MD, MSc, MHCM, to break down…
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