All Articles on Primary Care
Six Building Blocks help small rural clinics to manage opioids betterA research team led by Dr. Michael Parchman uses new ways to support small clinics in reducing opioid use in the rural Pacific Northwest.
Co-designing health care with patients: A how-to guideDr. Clarissa Hsu writes about a quality improvement project that equalized power between patients and staff.
Can mHealth improve primary care for alcohol use disorders?Dr. Joe Glass wants to make treatment more comfortable for patients and providers—possibly with digital tools.
Helping primary care practices decide whether to adopt proven programsTo be, or not to be, put into practice? Leah Tuzzio describes a decision-to-implement worksheet for evidence-based interventions
Stop! In the name of health—lessening low-value careMacColl engages teams to ‘de-implement’ needless tests and treatments, doing less overused low-value care that might harm patients.
Behavioral health team wins 2016 Birnbaum awardPatients benefit when behavioral health and substance use screening are part of primary care. A Kaiser Permanente team was honored for this care improvement.
How Dr. Leana Wen’s emergency room lessons translate to primary careDr. Matt Handley, primary care physician, finds a common theme for acute and long-term care in When Doctors Don’t Listen, a book by the 2016 Birnbaum speaker.
