AAFP Tells Legislators How to Improve Health by Focusing on Primary Care
Legislators can reduce health care costs and improve the nation’s health by taking specific steps to invest more in primary care, a past AAFP president testified in a May 20,…
Advancing a Public-Centered Vision for Primary Care—Lessons from Ontario and Inspiration from the Netherlands
Abstract Primary care reforms often proceed without a clear articulation of what patients and the public expect primary care to deliver. In Canada, nearly six million people lack access to…
Alzheimer’s Blood Tests Help Primary Care Doctors Make Better Diagnoses
Blood test results helped primary care physicians diagnose Alzheimer’s disease with nearly the same accuracy as specialists, a study of Swedish patients with cognitive impairment showed. Primary care physicians changed…
Primary Care Needs More Attention and Investment, CMS Officials Say
WASHINGTON — Healthcare payers, including the federal government, aren’t investing enough in primary care, said experts during a conference sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on Tuesday.…
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“If I have any problems, I just want to see my [primary care] doctor”: perspectives on a proposed collaborative RUral PALliative care intervention (RuPal) | BMC Palliative Care
CDC. Heart Disease. Available from: https://www.cdc.gov/heartdisease/heart_failure.htm. Accessed 12 May 2020. Stewart S, MacIntyre K, Hole DJ, Capewell S, McMurray JJ. More ‘malignant’than cancer? Five‐year survival following a first admission for heart…
From conversation to completion: identifying conversation elements to support effective shared decision-making for lung cancer screening in rural primary care | BMC Primary Care
A total of 173 participants responded to the survey (85 online and 88 by paper). All returned surveys were included in the analysis, including those that were partially completed. Participant…
NC Health Workforce – Is Access to Primary Care Clinicians Improving in North Carolina? A 2025 Update
By Evan Galloway Jun 22, 2026 Sheps Health Workforce NC has produced a primary care clinician index since 2017 to measure geographic access to primary care in North Carolina. The…
Primary HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening Among Family Medicine Educators
Primary HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening Among Family Medicine Educators Alisa P. Young, Rosa Reyes, Chidera Mgbudem, Dongru Chen, Ananda Sen, Diane M. Harper The Journal of the American…
Assessing healthcare access among residents in rural Eastern San Diego county: a qualitative study | BMC Primary Care
This qualitative study offers multi-ecological understandings of the experiences of rural Eastern San Diego County residents with healthcare access and public health systems. Similar to previous findings, participants expressed concern…
The rural adolescent vaccine enterprise (RAVE): a cluster-randomized trial testing a multicomponent intervention to improve HPV vaccination in rural primary care settings | BMC Primary Care
Study design and patient populations The Rural Adolescent Vaccine Enterprise (RAVE) study [22] was a five-year cluster randomized trial that utilized a stepped-wedge study design to implement and evaluate a…
