RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Research to Improve Clinical Care in Family Medicine: Big Data, Telehealth, Artificial Intelligence, and More
JF The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
JO J Am Board Fam Med
FD American Board of Family Medicine
SP 161
OP 164
DO 10.3122/jabfm.2024.240050R0
VO 37
IS 2
A1 Bowman, Marjorie A.
A1 Seehusen, Dean A.
A1 Britz, Jacqueline
A1 Ledford, Christy J. W.
YR 2024
UL http://www.jabfm.org/content/37/2/161.abstract
AB This issue highlights changes in medical care delivery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and features research to advance the delivery of primary care. Several articles report on the effectiveness of telehealth, including its use for hospital follow-up, medication abortion, management of diabetes, and as a potential tool for reducing health disparities. Other articles detail innovations in clinical practice, from the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to a validated simple risk score that can support outpatient triage decisions for patients with COVID-19. Notably one article reports the impact of a voluntary program using scribes in a large health system on physician documentation behaviors and performance. One article addresses the wage gap between early-career female and male family physicians. Several articles report on inappropriate testing for common health problems; are you following recommendations for ordering Pulmonary Function Tests, mt-sDNA for colon cancer screening, and HIV testing?