This issue highlights changes in medical care delivery since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and features research to advance the delivery of primary care. Several articles report on the effectiveness of telehealth, including its use for hospital follow-up, medication abortion, management of diabetes, and as a potential tool for reducing health disparities. Other articles detail innovations in clinical practice, from the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to a validated simple risk score that can support outpatient triage decisions for patients with COVID-19. Notably one article reports the impact of a voluntary program using scribes in a large health system on physician documentation behaviors and performance. One article addresses the wage gap between early-career female and male family physicians. Several articles report on inappropriate testing for common health problems; are you following recommendations for ordering Pulmonary Function Tests, mt-sDNA for colon cancer screening, and HIV testing?
Keyphrases
- artificial intelligence
- big data
- machine learning
- primary care
- healthcare
- clinical practice
- hiv testing
- mental health
- deep learning
- men who have sex with men
- emergency department
- public health
- adverse drug
- quality improvement
- type diabetes
- randomized controlled trial
- systematic review
- cardiovascular disease
- health information
- affordable care act
- human health
- general practice
- glycemic control
- health promotion
- hepatitis c virus
- acute care
- climate change
- health insurance