Articles
Functional Dyspepsia: Evaluation and Management
Symptoms of functional dyspepsia include postprandial fullness, early satiety, and epigastric pain or burning. Endoscopy should be performed in patients 60 years or older with dyspepsia symptoms. For patients younger than 60 years, a test and treat strategy for Helicobacter…
Short-Term Systemic Corticosteroids: Appropriate Use in Primary Care
Short-term systemic corticosteroids are frequently prescribed for adults by primary care physicians. Short courses of steroids are associated with adverse effects, including hyperglycemia, elevated blood pressure, mood disturbance, sepsis, and fracture. There is evidence…
Muscle Weakness in Adults: Evaluation and Differential Diagnosis
Muscle weakness can be challenging to evaluate in primary care practice. Physicians must distinguish true muscle weakness from subjective fatigue or pain-related motor impairment. The differential diagnosis of muscle weakness is extensive, including neurologic, rheumatologic…
AFP Clinical Answers
Depression After ACS, Amenorrhea, Physical Activity, Heart Failure, Erythema Multiforme
Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal's content, written by and for family physicians.
Editorials
America Needs More Family Doctors: 25×2030 Collaborative Aims to Get More Medical Students into Family Medicine
The United States faces a shortage of primary care physicians due to population growth and aging, physician retirement, and changing physician work patterns.1 Although an increased supply of primary care physicians is associated with decreased mortality,2 only 13% of U.S…
U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Screening for Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Pregnant Women: Recommendation Statement
The USPSTF recommends screening for hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in pregnant women at their first prenatal visit.
Putting Prevention Into Practice
Screening for Hepatitis B Virus in Pregnant Women
This PPIP quiz is based on the recommendations of the USPSTF.
Photo Quiz
Acute Heart Failure in a 39-Year-Old Man
Acute Heart Failure in a 39-Year-Old Man
FPIN's Help Desk Answers
Pain Medications Before IUD Placement
Topical lidocaine preparations including gels, creams, and sprays may modestly decrease pain with tenaculum placement but not during IUD insertion.
STEPS
Revefenacin (Yupelri) for the Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Revefenacin is a once-daily nebulized alternative to metered dose long-acting muscarinic antagonists for patients with moderate to severe COPD. Given its expense, complicated administration process, and lack of evidence that it improves key patient-oriented outcomes, its use…
Practice Guidelines
Management of Atrial Fibrillation: Updated Guidance from the AHA, ACC, and HRS
This guideline on atrial fibrillation (AF) management from the American Heart Association (AHA), American College of Cardiology (ACC), and Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) is an update of the 2014 version and is based on new evidence from clinical trials and the U.S. Food and Drug…
Letters to the Editor
Identify Patients Likely to Benefit from Lung Cancer Screening
Reply: Andy Lazris, Alan R. Roth
Lung Cancer Screening Effective for Reducing Cancer Deaths
Reply: Andy Lazris, Alan R. Roth