Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014): January/February 2014

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The Patient-Centered Medical Home is a redesign of office practice that maintains the core values of traditional family medicine, creates health care teams that track and improve patient care, improves access, satisfaction and patient-centeredness, and is supported by reformed reimbursem...

Spirometry in the primary care office is a valuable tool that can be used to assist with the diagnosis of respiratory symptoms and the management of obstructive and restrictive lung disease. With the most common obstructive diseases, spirometry use has been shown to lead to more&nbs...

Hypoglycemia is a common and serious complication of diabetes management. There is no uniformly accepted clinical definition of hypoglycemia. The American Diabetes Association (ADA) recommends that people with diabetes consider treating hypoglycemia when the self-monitored blood glucose ...

Stroke affects nearly 800,000 people in the United States, and is a leading cause of disability and mortality. Increasing age is one of the most significant risk factors for stroke, and as our population continues to age, stroke is expected to become more prevalent. Strokes are categoriz...

The US population is predicted to increase by 18% between 2005 and 2025. The over 65 population will increase by 73% during this same period.1 These are contributors the predicted shortage of primary care physicians in the United States. The American Academy of Family Practice (AAFP) has...

The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) is a model of care based on the patient, their doctor and the healthcare team working together. The team tries new ways to work for the patient to have good health. One focus is on the patient doctor bond and to help the patient be more active in ...