Monitor - May 1999 -- FPM
May 1, 1999 - ...Highlights include projects that reduced heart attacks by 10 percent among Medicare beneficiaries, prevented an estimated 1,285 strokes per year in 20 states, and saved an estimated $325 million through diabetesrelated initiatives. The report, A Pillar of Quality: The Medicare Peer...
Family Practice Management : News Briefs
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0500/p20.html
Monitor - Nov 2002 -- FPM
Dec 1, 2002 - ...samplers for the prevention and treatment of acute myocardial infarction, breast cancer, diabetes, heart failure, pneumonia and stroke. Insurers underpaying docs Nearly one in five health care claims are underpaid by insurers, costing practices millions of dollars annually, reports...
Family Practice Management : News Briefs
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1100/p31.html
Monitor - Oct 1999 -- FPM
Oct 1, 1999 - ...Life expectancy has increased, reflecting a continuing drop in deaths from heart disease and stroke. The 44 percent of goals that are on schedule to be met include those related to childhood immunizations, breast-feeding, mammography screening and nutrition. Areas in which progress...
Family Practice Management : News Briefs
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/1000/p17.html
New payment model seeks to reduce cardiovascular disease -- FPM
New payment model seeks to reduce cardiovascular disease
Family Practice Management : Getting Paid : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/gettingpaid/entry/new_payment_model_seeks_to.html
Outpatient vs. Inpatient Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia -- Family Practice ...
...Stroke +10 Renal failure +10 Physical examination findings Altered mental status +20 Respiratory rate ≥ 30 breaths per minute +20 Systolic blood pressure < 90 mm Hg +20 Temperature < 95˚F (35˚C) or ≥ 104˚F (40˚C) +15 Pulse rate ≥ 125 beats per minute +10...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0400/fpm20060400p41.pdf
Patient Attribution: Why It Matters More Than Ever -- FPM
Dec 1, 2016 - How payers assign patients to you will affect how your practice is evaluated and paid for value in the future.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/1100/p25.html
Practice Diary - May 2000 -- FPM
May 1, 2000 - ...a physician never wants to hear. Mrs. Thompson had called my house to say that her husband, Carl, had had a heart attack or possibly a stroke. An elderly man, Carl had been discharged from the hospital two weeks before after a bout of intractable nausea and vomiting that, for a...
Family Practice Management : Practice Diary
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0500/p63.html
Practice Diary - May 2003 -- FPM
May 1, 2003 - ...knew, with dread, what she was about to tell me: Oliver was dead at age 55. His doctors suspected he had died of either a heart attack or a stroke, and the memorial was set for the next Saturday. Would you like to speak at the service? Karen asked. Definitely, I said. A year...
Family Practice Management : Practice Diary
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0500/p71.html
Preventive Medicine: Giving Patients the Hard Sell -- FPM
Jan 1, 2008 - Your patients will be better off if you take a more active approach and consistently advocate for prevention.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0100/p22.html
Quality Measures: How to Get Them Right
...Why it’s good: Cessation of tobacco use is associated with decreased risk for heart disease, stroke, and lung disease - all outcomes that clearly matter to patients, and net benefit has been clearly established.1 The resource requirements for screening, intervening, and reporting...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0700/fpm20180700p23.pdf
Quality Measures: How to Get Them Right -- FPM
Aug 1, 2018 - Pay-for-performance programs have produced disappointing results. Fewer and more appropriate, evidence-based quality measures could help.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0700/p23.html
Quanitifying the Risk of Complications, Morbidity and Mortality
...An abrupt change in neurologic status (e.g., seizure, TIA, weakness, sensory loss) Cardiovascular imaging studies with contrast with identified risk factors Cardiac electrophysiologic tests Diagnostic endoscopies with identi- fied risk factors Discography Elective...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0700/fpm20100700p10-rt1.pdf
Readers Speak Out on the Turtle vs. Rabbit Controversy -- FPM
Aug 1, 1999 - Family physicians from across the country have strongly held and differing views on the clash of practice styles. Is there a solution?
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0700/p19.html
Reducing Delays and Waiting Times With Open-Office Scheduling -- FPM
Apr 1, 1999 - Setting aside slots for same-day and follow-up appointments builds patients' trust - and boosts productivity. Here's how to do it.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0400/p38.html
Reducing Frustration and Increasing Fulfillment: Reframing -- FPM
Oct 1, 2017 - To better handle challenging patients or situations, try modifying the way you view them.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0900/p12.html
Rethinking the Difficult Patient Encounter -- FPM
Aug 1, 2012 - Before you can help a difficult patient, you may need to change how you view that person.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/0700/p17.html
Serving Up the Feedback Sandwich -- Family Practice Management
...the assumption that excellence is expected, so praise is unnecessary. They fail to recognize that the main objective of praise is not to stroke the employee’s ego but to encourage the employee to repeat desired behav- iors. Changing and maintaining new behavior requires praise,...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1100/fpm20021100p43.pdf
Serving Up the Feedback Sandwich -- FPM
Dec 1, 2002 - Negative feedback is never easy to give, but sandwiching criticism between layers of praise makes it more palatable and more effective.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/1100/p43.html
Standardized Hospital Admissions Orders
...recent surgery or stroke). 2. Concurrent symptomatic pulmonary emboli. YES NO 3. Expected hospitalization greater than five days due YES NO to co-existing conditions. 4. Known hypercoagulability: familial or acquired. YES NO 5. Pregnant or breast-feeding. YES NO 6....
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0900/fpm20060900p49-rt1.docx
Test Your Coding Skills -- Family Practice Management
...my, D/C, cyst removed (vaginal?). Medical: none, Hep B? Psychiatric: none. Obstetrical: G3P3 - C-sections x 3. Family History: F: 77, stroke, asthma. M: Alzheimer’s, 83 yo. Brs: 2 - tobacco, TB, bronchiectasis, both have lobectomies, good health. Sis: 1 - diet con- trolled DH, heart...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/fpm20020200p41.pdf
Test Your Coding Skills -- FPM
Feb 1, 2002 - Go head to head with our review panel in coding six troublesome progress notes.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p41.html
The 1997 Evaluation and Management Guidelines at a Glance
...life-threatening problems (e.g., acute MI, progressive severe RA, potential threat of suicide); abrupt neuro. change (e.g., seizure, TIA, weakness or sensory loss) Dx procedures: Dx endoscopy w/ risk factors Mx options: Parenteral controlled substances, Rx needing intensive...
Family Practice Management
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2011/0900/fpm20110900p33-rt1.pdf
The Art and Science of Clinical Decision Making -- FPM
May 1, 2008 - Thinking about how you make clinical decisions is the first step toward making better ones.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0500/p31.html
The Family Physician's Role in Reducing Medical Errors -- FPM
Feb 1, 2000 - The article will explain the kinds of medical errors that are common in medical practice and what physicians can do to improve patient safety.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0200/p45.html
The Integrated Summary: A Documentation Tool to Improve Patient Care -- FPM
Apr 1, 2003 - This easy-to-use template enables you to see the full context of a patient’s health on a single page.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0400/p33.html