Modifying Provider Vitamin D Screening Behavior in Primary Care

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Vitamin D and depression in geriatric primary care patients

PURPOSE Vitamin D deficiency is common in the elderly. Vitamin D deficiency may affect the mood of people who are deficient. We investigated vitamin D status in older primary care patients and explored associations with depression. PATIENTS AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted and association analyses were performed. Primary care patients at a single academic medical center who w...

Patient preference in primary care provider type.

BACKGROUND Given the growing roles of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs), patients are increasingly able to choose their primary care provider type. Studies examining patient preferences among provider types are limited and ours is the first to examine reasons for patients' provider type preferences. METHODS Using data from the 2014 Association of American Medical Colleg...

Modifying antibiotic prescribing in primary care.

Enormous volumes of antibiotics are prescribed in the primary health care setting every day. Although much of this prescribing is appropriate, it is well recognized that inappropriate prescribing, especially for respiratory tract infections, is highly prevalent worldwide [1, 2]. Even well-justified antibiotic prescribing can result in unwanted patient outcomes via " collateral damage " to norma...

Primary care provider training in screening, assessment, and treatment of adolescent depression.

OBJECTIVE Adolescent depression is underrecognized and undertreated. Primary care providers (PCP) require training to successfully identify adolescents with depression. We examined the effects of a PCP training program in the screening, assessment, and treatment of adolescent depression (SAT-D) on adolescents' reports of PCP screening for adolescent depression at annual well visits and PCP SAT-...