Primary Care
Primary care providers can play key role in delivering survivorship care in rural areas
Cancer survivors living in rural settings often face unique challenges in terms of insurance coverage, access to healthy lifestyle choices and opportunities to receive guideline-concordant care.
The promising future of financing for whole-person primary care
For the nation’s struggling primary care system, help is on the way. This may sound too good to be true, but it’s for real.
Onco-primary care networks prevent ‘benign neglect’ through collaboration
Primary care physicians often are best positioned to detect cancers and provide essential monitoring of treatment-related adverse events during cancer survivorship.
Primary care-led survivorship clinics require risk stratification, ‘therapeutic alliance’
Primary care providers play a key role in cancer survivorship, according to a presenter at the Cancer Center Survivorship Research Forum.
Immune system could play role in IOP reduction after SLT, study finds
Patients on systemic immunosuppressive therapy experienced diminished IOP reductions a year after receiving selective laser trabeculoplasty compared with those who were not immunosuppressed, according to a study.
Regularly seeing a PCP leads to greater savings for Medicare patients
Patients who had regular primary care visits with the same physician had greater savings in Medicare expenditures and a reduced risk for ED visits and hospitalizations — especially as their care became more complex — a recent study found.
Active screening of patients with diabetes or COPD doubled new diagnoses of heart disease
In a new study, a diagnostic strategy utilizing tools readily available in primary care successfully identified new diagnoses of atrial fibrillation, CAD and HF among patients with type 2 diabetes or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Tips and tools for managing chronic dizziness in primary care
An 83-year-old woman presents to the office for evaluation of dizziness.
Study: Improving continuity of care could also improve appropriate prescribing
Several different measures of care continuity were linked to more appropriate prescribing in primary care, indicating that bettering the practice may also reduce harms by improving prescription quality, according to researchers.
Blood tests for AD pathology may improve diagnostic accuracy, treatment in primary care
Utilization of blood tests to detect Alzheimer’s pathology may boost diagnostic accuracy and treatment in a primary care setting, according to research presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.