Family Physicians Can/Should Do: What? Where? And How?

[摘要] This issue’s teasers: A broad scope of care by family physicians could be incentivized and has positive outcomes. Family physicians could do more dermoscopy—a mixed specialty group of experts provide information on diagnosis with associated features and proficiency standards for primary care clinicians. Clinicians could trust more, and do less, such as adult measles–mumps–rubella boosters. Family physicians differ from pediatricians on how to deliver vitamin D to newborns. Practice scope varies by location. Is monetary incentive a key to incentivize COVID vaccination? A new, useful, easy functional status questionnaire. This issue also includes articles on both adult and pediatric obesity, a systematic review of social determinants of health and documentation thereof, plus more.Improving Patient CareMultiple articles in this issue have valuable information to improve patient care. For example, the new Tennessee Functional Status Questionnaire is straightforward, easy to complete by a patient, and more informative than other instruments.

[学科分类] 过敏症与临床免疫学