Annals of Family Medicine articles

Recent articles from Annals of Family Medicine

In this issue: community care, healing, and excellence in research.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... COMMUNITY CARE This issue of the Annals features a special report (1) describing how Community Care of North Carolina (CCNC) has improved quality and reduced total costs for care of Medicaid patients during the last decade. CCNC is a system of community health networks led by local...

North Carolina Medicaid: a fruitful payer-practice collaboration.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
July 1, 2008... The article in this issue "Community Care of North Carolina: Improving Care Through Community Health Networks" describes a decade-long program of quality improvement and cost reduction created by North Carolina Medicaid. The article provides lessons of value to all health professionals and...

Integration of depression and hypertension treatment: a pilot, randomized controlled trial.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to examine whether integrating depression treatment into care for hypertension improved adherence to antidepressant and antihypertensive medications, depression outcomes, and blood pressure control among older primary care patients. METHODS Older adults...

Self-rated cardiovascular risk and 15-year cardiovascular mortality.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE Many individuals perceive their cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk to be lower than established clinical tools would estimate, yet little is known about the long-term consequences of holding such optimistic beliefs. We evaluated whether lower self-ratings of CVD risk are...

Healing in primary care: a vision shared by patients, physicians, nurses, and clinical staff.
July 1, 2008... ABSTRACT PURPOSE We wanted to understand the views of patients and clinicians on the central concept of healing and to identify major facilitators of and barriers to promoting healing in primary care. METHODS We undertook a qualitative analysis of focus group discussions....