Primary Care Tasks and Task Groupings
| Task | Task Groupings |
|---|---|
| Gathering patient preventive services history (eg, immunization history) | In-person data collection |
| Screening patients for diseases (eg, doing a depression screen) | |
| Assessing patient lifestyle factors (eg, diet, smoking cessation) | |
| Receiving messages from patients (other than requests for prescriptions) | Messaging |
| Resolving messages from patients (other than requests for prescriptions) | |
| Responding to prescription refill requests | |
| Encouraging lifestyle modifications (eg, diet, smoking cessation) | Counseling/education |
| Educating patients about disease-specific self-care activities (eg, foot care in diabetes) | |
| Educating patients about medications | |
| Evaluating patients and making treatment decisions | Decision making |
| Completing forms for patients (eg, disability documentation) | |
| Responding to requests for home health care orders | |
| Responding to patient diagnostic and treatment data (eg, laboratory tests, radiology studies) | Tracking data |
| Following up on referrals (eg, to specialists) |