Reopening your practice during COVID-19: where to begin -- FPM
New workflows and other changes are now critical to maintaining social distancing and keeping facilities clean and safe. But where should practices begin?
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/reopening_first_steps.html
Pandemic Exposes Flaws in Health Care Payment System
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the many challenges that the fee-for-service system presents to primary care. In this In the Trenches blog post, AAFP Senior Vice President of Advocacy, Practice Advancement and Policy Stephanie Quinn examines what needs to change.
AAFP News : In the Trenches : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/inthetrenches/entry/20200623itt-payment.html
The key to reducing work after clinic -- FPM
Physicians spend one to two hours nightly on EHR tasks or paperwork. To reduce work after clinic, focus on this one thing.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/wac_tip.html
Three ways to nurture the family in family medicine -- FPM
Your well-being is affected by not only the quality of your workplace but also the quality of your family life. Here are three ways physicians can protect family well-being.
Family Practice Management : Quick Tips : FPM Home
https://www.aafp.org/journals/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/family_wellbeing.html
Closure, COVID, Chaos: A Resident's Tale of Resilience
Merlyn Sunny Abraham, M.D., writes in the Fresh Perspectives blog that her family medicine class of seven women persisted through the closure of their hospital, the transfer of their program and a pandemic.
AAFP News : Fresh Perspectives: New Docs in Practice | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/freshperspectives/entry/20200618fp-drexel.html
It's Your Future: Don't Let Others Thwart Your Ambitions
Tochi Iroku-Malize, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A., writes in this Leader Voices Blog post that she first encountered racism when her elementary school teacher told her she couldn't become a doctor.
AAFP News : AAFP Leader Voices | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/leadervoices/entry/20200617lv-ambition.html
Lessons in Negotiation: Saving OB Training During Pandemic
When COVID-19 threatened to disrupt maternity care training at a Seattle hospital, leaders from three family medicine residency programs rallied to find a solution. Read more in this FPs on the Front Lines blog post.
AAFP News : FPs on the Front Lines: Meeting the Challenge | AAFP News Blog : Blogs
https://www.aafp.org/news/blogs/fpsonfrontlines/entry/20200616fl-covidob.html
Asthma - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - This collection features AFP content on asthma and related issues, including allergens, beta agonists, chronic cough, exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, inhalers, and wheezing. This collection features AFP content on asthma and related issues, including allergens, beta agonists, ...
- Overview
- Screening and Diagnosis
- Prevention
- Treatment
- Complications and Special Situations
- Editorials and Letters
- Improving Practice
- Patient Education, Self-Care
- Other AFP Content
- Other Resources from AAFP
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=3
Management of Fever in Infants and Young Children - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Despite dramatic reductions in the rates of bacteremia and meningitis since the 1980s, febrile illness in children younger than 36 months continues to be a concern with potentially serious consequences. Factors that suggest serious infection include age younger than one month, poor ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p721.html
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: Diagnosis and Management - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is noncardiogenic pulmonary edema that manifests as rapidly progressive dyspnea, tachypnea, and hypoxemia. Diagnostic criteria include onset within one week of a known insult or new or worsening respiratory symptoms, profound hypoxemia, ...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p730.html
Dementia - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - This collection features AFP content on dementia and related issues, including Alzheimer’s, Binswanger’s type, dementia, and dementia with Lewy bodies. This collection features AFP content on dementia and related issues, including Alzheimer’s, Binswanger’s type, dementia, and dementia ...
- Overview and Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Complications and Special Situations
- Editorials and Letters
- Improving Practice
- Patient Education, Self-Care
- Other AFP Content
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=5
Atrial Fibrillation - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - This collection features AFP content on atrial fibrillation and related issues, including anticoagulation therapy, antiplatelet therapy, arrhythmias, and palpitations. This collection features AFP content on atrial fibrillation and related issues, including anticoagulation therapy, ...
- Overview
- Screening and Diagnosis
- Treatment
- Improving Practice
- Patient Education, Self-Care
- Other AFP Content
- Other Resources from AAFP
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=33
Foreign Bodies in the Skin: Evaluation and Management - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Foreign bodies may be introduced into the skin through lacerations and soft tissue wounds. Long-term complications of retained foreign bodies include chronic pain and neurovascular impairment. Wound exploration and initial imaging with radiography or ultrasonography should be considered...
American Family Physician : Article
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p740.html
Point-of-Care Guides - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - This collection features AFP content from the Point-of-Care Guides collection on topics related to anticoagulation, cancer, cardiovascular issues, diabetes, gastrointestinal issues, infectious diseases, mortality risk, musculoskeletal issues, neurologic issues, obstetric issues, ...
- Anticoagulation
- Cancer
- Cardiovascular
- Diabetes
- Gastrointestinal
- Infectious Diseases
- Mortality Risk
- Musculoskeletal
- Neurologic
- Obstetric
- Psychiatric
- Respiratory
- Surgical
- Readmission Risk
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=75
Respiratory Tract Infections - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Advertisement AFP BY TOPIC Respiratory Tract Infections Editors' Choice of Best Available Content This collection features the best content from AFP, as identified by the AFP editors, on respiratory tract infections and related issues, including acute bronchitis, acute...
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=29
Inpatient Medicine - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Advertisement AFP BY TOPIC Inpatient Medicine Editors' Choice of Best Available Content This collection features the best content from AFP, as identified by the AFP editors, on inpatient medicine topics, including atrial fibrillation, cancer, cellulitis and soft tissue...
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Cancer
- Cellulitis and Soft Tissue Infections
- Congestive Heart Failure
- COPD Exacerbation
- Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism
- Delirium
- Diabetes
- Dyspnea, Acute
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding, Acute
- Health Care-Associated Infections
- HIV Infection
- Hypertension, Severe
- Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia
- Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia
- Interventional Radiology
- Kidney Disease
- Meningitis
- Myocardial Infarction
- Osteomyelitis
- Pancreatitis and Pancreatic Cancer
- Pleural Effusion
- Pneumonia
- Pyelonephritis
- Sepsis
- Septic Arthritis
- Stroke
- Syncope
- Transfusions
- Improving Practice
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=88
Procedures - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Advertisement AFP BY TOPIC Procedures Editors' Choice of Best Available Content This collection features the best content from AFP, as identified by the AFP editors, on procedures and related issues, including aesthetic and cosmetic procedures, anethesia, cyst management,...
- Aesthetic and Cosmetic
- Anesthesia, Local Nerve Blocks
- Anesthesia, Peripheral Nerve Blocks
- Bartholin's Cyst Management
- Breast Cyst Aspiration
- Cardiac Exercise Treadmill Stress Tests
- Circumcision, Newborn
- Colposcopy
- Cryosurgery
- Endometrial Biopsy
- Epistaxis Nasal Packing
- Foreign Body Removal, Skin
- Fracture Management
- Ingrown Toenail Removal
- IUD Insertion and Removal
- Joint Injections
- Lumbar Puncture
- Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS)
- Skin Procedures
- Spirometry/Pulmonary Function Tests
- Thrombosed Hemorrhoid Excision
- Vasectomy
- Improving Practice
- Patient Education, Self-Care
- Other Resources from AAFP
American Family Physician : AFP By Topic
https://www.aafp.org/afp/topicModules/viewTopicModule.htm?topicModuleId=87
Asthma: Updated Diagnosis and Management Recommendations from GINA - Practice ...
Jun 15, 2020 - The latest update to the Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) guidelines includes significant changes to treatment recommendations, especially a recommendation against using a short-acting beta2 agonists such as albuterol as sole therapy.
American Family Physician : Practice Guidelines
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p762.html
Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: Recommendation Statement - U.S. ...
Jun 15, 2020 - The USPSTF concludes that the current evidence is insufficient to assess the balance of benefits and harms of screening for cognitive impairment in older adults.
American Family Physician : U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/od1.html
Clinical Diagnosis of Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis - Point-of-Care Guides - American ...
Jun 15, 2020 - Which patients with symptoms of acute rhinosinusitis have bacterial infection?
American Family Physician : Point-of-Care Guides
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p758.html
Screening for Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults - Putting Prevention into Practice -...
Jun 15, 2020 - L.C. is a 70-year-old Asian American woman who retired from teaching middle school five years ago. She lives independently and has a daughter and grandchildren who live within 30 miles of her. She presents for a follow-up visit to renew her hypertension medications. Her blood pressure ...
American Family Physician : Putting Prevention into Practice
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p753.html
Anticoagulation in Older Adults - Lown Right Care: Reducing Overuse and Underuse - ...
Jun 15, 2020 - A collaboration between AFP and the Lown Institute promotes a vision of delivering health care that is based on the evidence, balanced in its approach, and focused on the patient.
American Family Physician : Lown Right Care: Reducing Overuse and Underuse
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p748.html
Red Eye and Aching in the Extremities - Photo Quiz - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - A woman presented with redness and pain in her right eye that was achy and associated with watery discharge but no visual changes.
American Family Physician : Photo Quiz
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p755.html
Bone Infections, Sinusitis, Antihypertensive Therapy and COVID-19, Toilet Training, ...
Jun 15, 2020 - Key clinical questions and their evidence-based answers directly from the journal’s content, written by and for family physicians.
American Family Physician : AFP Clinical Answers
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p718.html
Ozenoxacin (Xepi) for the Treatment of Impetigo - STEPS - American Family Physician
Jun 15, 2020 - Ozenoxacin is an effective and safe topical quinolone treatment for bullous and nonbullous impetigo in patients as young as two months. However, it is expensive and some patients may have limited access because it is only available through a physician or hospital.
American Family Physician : STEPS
https://www.aafp.org/afp/2020/0615/p760.html