Primary Care

Medicare beneficiaries who received care from clinics participating in Maryland’s advanced primary care program had lower rates of COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths than those receiving care at nonparticipating sites, data show.

With a lack of well-defined guidelines, many primary care providers in the United Kingdom provided generic weight-loss advice to patients with obesity, a recent study found.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Pediatric primary care offices can perform graded oral amoxicillin challenges during routine visits, according to a presentation at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

PHILADELPHIA — Although most primary care physicians understand the importance for early diagnosis and management of rheumatoid arthritis, there is discomfort with making the initial diagnosis, a speaker said at ACR Convergence 2022.

WASHINGTON — A leading expert in hepatology called for fellow specialists to embrace a role of education, advocacy and support as part of a proposed national hepatitis C virus elimination program presented during The Liver Meeting.

The percentage of Americans with a usual source of care is declining, and the solution will require new investments in primary care to improve access and strengthen patient-clinician relationships, according to experts.

“Financial neglect and excessively large patient panels” are the root causes of problems in primary care, according to Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Primary care providers who care for patients with COPD in rural clinics in the Midwest U.S. identified several barriers to delivering evidence-based care.

For intermediate- and high-risk patients with chronic kidney disease in primary care clinics, there are “several areas” for care improvement, according to data published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.

The 23rd annual National Primary Care Week is underway, highlighting the field’s strengths and urgent needs.