Frequency and criticality of diagnoses in family medicine practices: from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS)

MR Peabody, TR O'Neill, KL Stelter… - The Journal of the …, 2018 - Am Board Family Med
Background: Family medicine is a specialty of breadth, providing comprehensive health care
for the individual and the family that integrates the broad scope of clinical, social, and …

Validating the test plan specifications for the American Board of Family Medicine's certification examination

TR O'Neill, MR Peabody, KL Stelter… - The Journal of the …, 2019 - Am Board Family Med
Purpose: To demonstrate the degree to which the American Board of Family Medicine's
certification examination is representative of family physician practice with regard to …

Family physicians' knowledge of commonly overused treatments and tests

D Maurer, M Stephens, B Reamy… - The Journal of the …, 2014 - Am Board Family Med
Purpose: In 2010, several primary care physician organizations drafted the “Promoting Good
Stewardship in Clinical Practice” list for family medicine to advance the appropriate use of 5 …

Evaluation of Transition From ICD-9-CM to ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding System in the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey.

DT Lau, A Strashny, K Phan, AL Blum… - … health statistics reports, 2018 - europepmc.org
Objective-On October 1, 2015, the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision,
Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) replaced ICD-9-CM (Ninth Revision) as the diagnosis …

Simulation of ICD-9 to ICD-10-CM transition for family medicine: simple or convoluted?

SN Grief, J Patel, KM Kochendorfer… - The Journal of the …, 2016 - Am Board Family Med
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the impact of the transition from
International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM), to …

[PDF][PDF] Family medicine: An evolving field around the world

A Gupta, CS Gray, M Landes, S Sridharan… - Canadian Family …, 2021 - cfp.ca
It is 2021. The imperative to move health care services outside of hospitals is evident. Before
the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, Canadian media had switched its tune …

[PDF][PDF] The American Board of Family Medicine: what's next?

W Newton - 2019 - Am Board Family Med
In March 2004, the Future of Family Medicine issued a famous prophecy:“Unless there are
changes in the broader health care system and within the specialty, the position of family …

ICD-10 coding will challenge researchers: caution and collaboration may reduce measurement error and improve comparability over time

AJ Mainor, NE Morden, J Smith, S Tomlin… - Medical care, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Background: The October 1, 2015 US health care diagnosis and procedure codes update,
from the 9th to 10th version of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), abruptly …

A patient-based system for describing ambulatory medicine practices using diagnosis clusters

BC Williams, JT Philbrick, DM Becker… - Journal of general …, 1991 - Springer
Objective: To develop a patient-based classification system to describe the clinical content of
ambulatory medicine practices. Design: A system of 100 diagnosis clusters was developed …

The full scope of family physicians' work is not reflected by current procedural terminology codes

RA Young, S Burge, KA Kumar… - The Journal of the …, 2017 - Am Board Family Med
Background: The purpose of this study was to characterize the content of family physician
(FP) clinic encounters, and to count the number of visits in which the FPs addressed issues …