RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Practical Clinical Topics, Digging Deeper into COVID-19, Social Determinants of Health, and Equity
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 883
OP 885
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2021.05.210303
VO 34
IS 5
A1 Marjorie A. Bowman
A1 Dean A. Seehusen
A1 Christy J. W. Ledford
YR 2021
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/34/5/883.abstract
AB As a discipline, we continue to learn lessons from Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)—lessons for practice, systems, and patient care. This issue also includes articles focused on 2 other topics that attract increasing attention by family physicians. First, articles describe how the social determinants of health impact health and how family physicians can overcome those obstacles with their patients. Patients want assistance from health systems for 1 specific need related to social determinants of their health. Second, we see increasing evidence about opioid prescriptions in primary care. Multiple clinical articles are pertinent to family medicine, such as different implications of an elevated sedimentation rate compared with C-reactive protein, practice facilitation, adolescent vaccination, family physician accuracy with potentially malignant skin lesions, and more.