How Health Care Reform Will Affect Family Physicians -- FPM
Jun 1, 2010 - The legislation isn't perfect, but it makes an important point - that primary care deserves more attention.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2010/0500/p14.html
How to Find Clinical Information Quickly at the Point of Care -- FPM
Jun 1, 2008 - You have one minute to identify the first-line therapy for a pregnant patient with tuberculosis. How will you find the answer?
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0600/p23.html
How to Help Your Patients Choose Wisely -- FPM
Aug 1, 2015 - Steer patients away from inappropriate and overused procedures that can diminish health care.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2015/0700/p28.html
Hypertension Encounter Form
...l Left ventricular hypertrophy or chronic heart failure l Angina, prior myocardial infarction, revascularization l Stroke or transient ischemic attack l Chronic kidney disease l Peripheral arterial disease l Retinopathy Physical examination Bilateral blood pressure measure:...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0300/fpm20040300p79-rt1.pdf
hypertension.pdf
...l Left ventricular hypertrophy or chronic heart failure l Angina, prior myocardial infarction, revascularization l Stroke or transient ischemic attack l Chronic kidney disease l Peripheral arterial disease l Retinopathy Physical Examination Bilateral blood pressure measure:...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/0900/hypertension.pdf
ICD-10 - HCC Coding Reference for Family Medicine
...Ischemic stroke Varies 100 0.265 ICD-10 - HCC CODING REFERENCE 3 of 3 Cardiac disease Angina I20.9 88 0.140 Coronary artery disease with angina I25.119 88 0.140 Unstable angina I20.0 87 0.218 Acute myocardial infarction I21.3 86 0.233 Pulmonary hypertension I27.2...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/fpm20180300p26-rt1.pdf
ICD-9 Codes for Family Medicine 2011-2012: The FPM Long List
...Postmastectomy lymphedema 415.19 Pulmonary embolism, not iatrogenic 443.0 Raynaud’s syndrome 451.9 Thrombophlebitis, unspec. 435.9 Transient ischemic attack, unspec. 454.9 Varicose veins, asymptomatic 454.1 Varicose veins w/ inflammation 454.0 Varicose veins w/ ulcer 454.2 Varicose...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/icd9/icd9-long.pdf
ICD-9 Codes for Family Medicine 2011-2012: The FPM Short List
...Rheumatic heart disease, unspec. 427.81 Sick sinus syndrome 427.0 Tachycardia, paroxysmal SVT 451.9 Thrombophlebitis, unspec. 435.9 Transient ischemic attack, unspec. 454.9 Varicose veins, asymptomatic 459.81 Venous insufficiency, unspec. VIII. Respiratory System 493.81 Asthma,...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/icd9/icd9-short.pdf
Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care -- Family Practice Management
...most common indication for war- farin therapy is to prevent stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation. Point-of-care antico- agulation assessment allows you to concur- rently address other factors that contribute to stroke risk (such as hypertension and hyperlipidemia). Billing...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/fpm20020200p35.pdf
Improving Anticoagulation Management at the Point of Care -- FPM
Feb 1, 2002 - Stop treating lab results. These easy-to-use devices return the focus of warfarin therapy to treating the patient.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p35.html
Improving Blood Pressure Control With Strategic Workflows -- FPM
Jun 1, 2016 - Setting a goal, identifying the right patients, and implementing team care can help bring hypertension under control.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0500/p23.html
Improving Chronic Disease Care in the Real World: A Step-by-Step Approach -- FPM
Oct 1, 1999 - Tag along as we follow a network of physicians on the first leg of a 13-month journey to redesign their diabetes care one step at a time.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/1000/p38.html
Improving Office Practice: Working Smarter, Not Harder -- FPM
Dec 1, 2006 - Seemingly simple strategies can transform your practice.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/1100/p28.html
Innovation in Practice: Six Ways to Harness the Power of Your Ideas -- Family Practice ...
...as being patient centered, systems focused and quality oriented.1 The New Model of Care proposed by the FFM project defines in broad brush strokes a redesigned practice that is just being invented today. It includes ideas such as the following: • Group visits, • Advanced access...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0600/fpm20050600p37.pdf
Is Your Diagnosis Coding Ready for Risk Adjustment
...I-- Monoplegia and hemiplegia that are late effects of stroke G-- Quadriplegia and paraplegia BMI = body mass index For Sale 11,178 SF Owner/User Medical Building PROPERTY HIGHLIGHTS: • Sale Price: $2,495,000 • 11,178 SF • Owner/User Suite: 8,346 SF • Strong Littleton...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/fpm20180300p21.pdf
Is Your Diagnosis Coding Ready for Risk Adjustment? -- FPM
Apr 1, 2018 - As payment models change, diagnosis coding is more important than ever. Here’s how to be sure your codes capture your patients’ severity of illness.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2018/0300/p21.html
It's Time to Start Practicing Population-Based Health Care -- FPM
Jun 1, 1998 - You don't have to be part of an integrated delivery system to optimize care for populations of patients with common conditions.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1998/0600/p37.html
It’s Time for ICD-10 Changes -- FPM
Dec 1, 2016 - The ICD-10 grace period has ended, so avoid using out-of-date and unspecified codes.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/1100/p17.html
Letters - May 2004 -- FPM
May 1, 2004 - ...by patients. The Dec. 15, 2003, issue had a feature article on strategies for primary prevention of stroke. The article included a table on the effectiveness of various stroke prevention strategies that cited relative risk reductions (RRR), rather than the much more clinically...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0500/p21.html
Letters - May 2008 -- FPM
May 1, 2008 - ...are designed (by me) to present information logically where it can be easily read and acted upon. I choose new medications with minimal key strokes. Template notes are easy to follow. I'm reminded of routine health maintenance and disease management needs through pop-up reminders...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2008/0500/p11.html
Letters - Nov-Dec 2012 -- FPM
Dec 1, 2012 - ...due to an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage and by women ages 55 to 64 years when the potential benefit due to a reduction in ischemic stroke outweighs the potential harm due to an increase in gastrointestinal hemorrhage. The corrected algorithm, includes A- and B-rated...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2012/1100/p6c.html
Letters - Oct 2006 -- FPM
Oct 1, 2006 - ...rheumatica will send some of them to the Internet for information. There they can read that this disease can lead to blindness or a stroke, it may be associated with the condition giant cell arteritis that damages the arteries and there is no known cure...
Family Practice Management : Letters
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2006/1000/p16d.html
Make Medical Notes Better and Faster with Macros -- Family Practice Management
...is stored and ready to use. It will be remembered even when the computer is turned off. In the future, any time you’re using Word, the key- stroke combo Ctrl-P will execute what we have just typed. WordPerfect’s macro capabilities are compa- rable to those of Microsoft Word, but...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2005/0900/fpm20050900p42.pdf
Making Wellness Medicine Work -- FPM
Apr 1, 1999 - Following a program like the author's, you can turn annual physical exams into an ongoing process of prevention and health improvement.
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0400/p33.html
Medicare Preventive Physical Exam
...Stroke Kidney disease Obesity Genetic disorder Alcoholism MEDICARE PREVENTIVE PHYSICAL EXAM continued ➤ MEDICARE PREVENTIVE PHYSICAL EXAM 2 of 6 Patient Name ________________________________________________________________ Today’s Date / / Family history...
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https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2011/0100/fpm20110100p22-rt3.pdf
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
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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