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In our 2005 study[1], we used administrative billing data to investigate risk factors for persistently high use of primary care among an insured population. We concluded that many primary care users with 10+ annual office visits were "overserviced but underserved," with underlying problems remaining largely unaddressed by a medical approach. Our findings suggested that unmet psychosocial conditions contributed to persiste...
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Clinical Population Medicine (CPM) represents a promising approach to clinical care, research, and health system design that leverages principles from public health and medicine to in order to mitigate health inequities and optimize population health. In this introduction to their virtual issue, Dr. Orkin and colleagues[1] challenge us to think about how we can "...create and support integrator practitioners and institutio...
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The editorial by Dr. Orkin et al. introducing the inaugural virtual issue of Annals of Family Medicine, promotes the integration of clinical care and community health under the rubric of Clinical Population Medicine (CPM). Reading it caused me to reflect on the split between clinical medicine and community health, and the various ways this separation is being addressed by Family Medicine.
The history of the di...
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As an editor of the Practical Playbook, cited by Orkin et al in their editorial, I would like to thank you for bringing attention to the need and opportunities for leadership in clinical population medicine.(1,2). But I would also like to point out that integrating clinical care and population health has been part of the role of family physicians since inception of the discipline. The 1966 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee o...
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The College of Family Physicians of Canada has declared that one of the principles of family medicine is that "the family physician is a resource to a defined practice population." The rise of electronic medical records (EMRs) in primary care in Canada and the United States has shifted the way must think about the role of primary care physicians. Orkin et al. have termed this Clinical Population Medicine (CPM) and have very...
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Orkin et al (1) have taken a theoretical construct and given it a name. The integration of clinical care with population and public health has long been recognized as important. By naming it and providing context this paper challenges us to engage with the construct in a more real way.
Being a resource to a defined population is one of the four long standing Principles of Family Medicine espoused by the College of Family...
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