Directly discussing online portals with patients in the primary care setting may help increase patients’ portal use, according to a study in Annals of Family Medicine. Researchers studied the ...

I finally found myself a PCP this year after a bout of mono. I had visited two different urgent cares with weird vague symptoms, and neither knew anything about me besides what I told them at the ...

Inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections as well as coprescribing of opioids and benzodiazepines were tied to shorter primary care visits. Shorter primary care ...

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Inspira Care Connect, LLC, an accountable care organization, incorporated transitional care management services into its postdischarge follow-up process to prevent avoidable utilization of health care ...

In primary care, nurse practitioners and physician assistants do not necessarily order more ancillary services, or more costly services among alternatives, than physicians. Objectives: Debate ...

Primary care is an often overlooked and underutilized healthcare resource that can have massive impacts on health outcomes, both for your employees and their families. A primary care provider, more ...

HealthDay News — Primary care providers (PCPs) can improve the productivity of face-to-face visits with patients by identifying activities that can be delegated to another team member or performed ...