Tobacco Cessation Telehealth Guide -- FPM
Dec 1, 2020 - Smoking cessation counseling and pharmacotherapy options are cost-effective ways to help patients quit smoking. Learn the role telehealth can play in your practice’s efforts, along with billing, coding, and documentation tips.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2020/1100/p13.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.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2016/0500/p23.html
Cardiac Risk Assessment -- FPM
Oct 1, 2014 - The Cardiac Risk Assist app allows health care professionals to calculate 10-year and lifetime risks for atherosclerotic cardiovascular (CV) disease.
Family Practice Management : SPPACES: App Reviews
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2014/0900/p32.html
Coming Home -- FPM
Feb 1, 2013 - Even patients with specialized conditions such as sickle cell disease need primary care physicians.
Family Practice Management : Opinion
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2013/0100/p6.html
Five Communication Strategies to Promote Self-Management of Chronic Illness -- FPM
Oct 1, 2009 - How you communicate with your patients can enhance - or inhibit - their ability to manage their chronic illnesses.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2009/0900/p12.html
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
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
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
Weighing the Risks and Benefits of Clinical Interventions -- FPM
Jan 1, 2004 - The article discusses the importance of engaging patients in cost-benefit discussions before deciding on their care plan. It also introduces several risk calculators (both paper and online versions) that physicians should become familiar with.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2004/0100/p53.html
Defining "Confined to the Home" -- FPM
Mar 1, 2003 - The author explains recent guidance from Medicare regarding how to determine whether a patient meets Medicare's definition of confined to the home (i.e., homebound).
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2003/0300/p20.html
Helping Patients Take Charge of Their Chronic Illnesses -- FPM
Mar 1, 2000 - The best thing you can do for your patients with chronic diseases is to let them run with the ball.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2000/0300/p47.html
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.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/2002/0200/p35.html
Tips for Making Inpatient Care More Efficient -- FPM
Mar 1, 1999 - You may be surprised at what you can do to improve the quality and reduce the cost of hospital care - and strengthen your own position.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0300/p45.html
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.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/0400/p33.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
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.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1999/1000/p38.html
Do-It-Yourself Disease Management -- FPM
Dec 1, 1998 - It's amazing what you can accomplish with your PC, some off-the-shelf software and a desire to improve patients' health.
Family Practice Management : Articles
https://www.aafp.org/fpm/1998/1100/p34.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
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