Annals of Family Medicine

In the 2024 ADFM annual member survey, member departments reported that they see on average 53,000 unique patients, conduct over 133,000 patient visits, and generate 93,000 referrals in a typical year. If we extrapolate this to all 160+ departments, this adds up roughly to a collective 8.5 million patients seen across the country, 21 million visits, and nearly 15 million referrals.

Abstract PURPOSE In 2024, Medicare introduced principal illness navigation peer support (PIN-PS) reimbursement codes, creating the first nationwide reimbursement mechanism specifically for peer-delivered support services under Medicare. Little is known about early implementation of these codes. This study identified barriers and facilitators to PIN-PS adoption across clinical, organizational, and policy settings.

Family physicians see every day how policy decisions affect the people they serve. They see when paperwork takes time away from patient visits, when unstable payment makes it harder to sustain a practice, and when workforce shortages limit access to care in their communities. That perspective gives family medicine a strong voice in Washington and in every congressional district.

Annals of Family Medicine encourages readers to develop a learning community to improve health and health care through enhanced primary care. With the Annals Journal Club, we encourage diverse participants—particularly among students, trainees, residents, and interns—to think critically about and discuss important issues affecting primary care and even consider how their discussions might inform their practice.

Abstract PURPOSE Screening for hazardous alcohol use is a challenging task in primary care. We examined concordance between the alcohol biomarker phosphatidylethanol (PEth) and 2 self-reported measures of alcohol use—score on a screening questionnaire and weekly drinks—in primary care. METHODS We conducted a retrospective cohort study using regional primary care health records linked to national registries in Sweden.

Parental leave, while essential for residents who choose to start or expand their families during training, can create challenges for residency programs.

In fall 2023, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) and NAPCRG co-hosted a research summit aimed at developing a strategic plan to advance research in the family medicine discipline. As a result of this summit, the 2024-2030 National Research Strategy for Family Medicine was created.1 Several family medicine organizations chose key objectives they would lead on to implement the strategy.

Key words: THE INNOVATION Rising-risk Medicaid patients are clinically complex individuals who demonstrate mounting care utilization needs, suboptimal chronic disease management, and often, underlying socioeconomic barriers to regular engagement with preventative services.

Research ArticleDepartments Retraction Authors’ statement: This study analyzed data procured in 2020 from a survey research firm, Opinions for Good (“Op4G”), to assess women’s health across the US in the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abstract BACKGROUND A novel teamlet (small team) care model was introduced in 2014 within Singapore polyclinics to improve care continuity and comprehensiveness for patients with chronic disease. Patients were enrolled in smaller teams comprising 2 family physicians, 1 nurse, and 1 care coordinator for coordinated team-based care. This study assessed 5-year outcomes focusing on clinical parameters, care adherence, health care utilization, and economic impact.