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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 3 notable papers spanning cancer screening adherence, the primary care role in chronic inflammatory disease, and the recognition of acute deep neck infection in the office. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Inflammatory Bowel Disease. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026
2. Health Communication and Stepped Reminders Interventions for Lung Cancer Screening: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026
3. Peritonsillitis in primary care: patient characteristics and care pathways - a population-based registry study. — BMC Primary Care 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning the rapid integration of point-of-care ultrasound in training, strategies for optimizing complex diagnostic and preventive care pathways, and the critical systemic challenges affecting workforce well-being and safety. Let us dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Multiorganizational Recommendations for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Family Medicine Residency Education — Family Medicine 2026
2. Iron deficiency testing among people with incident heart failure in primary care — BJGP Open 2026
3. Patient perspectives on the impact of an initial non-cancer diagnosis prior to a subsequent cancer diagnosis: a secondary qualitative analysis — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
4. Priority topics for preconception care in general practice: a consensus study — BJGP Open 2026
5. Experience and impacts of violence and abuse by patients towards general practice staff — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
6. What primary care physicians in Germany consider meaningful and meaningless work: a qualitative interview study using reflexive thematic analysis — BMC Primary Care 2026
7. From Pilot to Practice: A Checklist Approach to POCUS Training in Family Medicine — Family Medicine 2026
8. The use of patient-reported outcome questionnaires in patients with post-COVID-19 condition: a systematic review and meta-analysis — Family Practice 2026
9. A Novel Learner- and Patient-Oriented Needs Assessment for a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum in Family Medicine — Family Medicine 2026
10. The telesafe archive: a feasibility study of assembling a database of UK primary care telephone consultations — BJGP Open 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering eight notable papers from the British Journal of General Practice, spanning three broad themes: improving chronic disease and medication management, addressing sensitive consultations and safety netting in vulnerable populations, and navigating modern clinical tools and dermatological challenges. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Topical corticosteroid withdrawal: an evolving challenge for primary care in the management of atopic eczema. — The British journal of general practice 2026
2. Adults with hypertension: recommendations for minimum standards rather than optimal monitoring? — The British journal of general practice 2026
3. A practical approach to sebaceous lesions and Muir-Torre syndrome in primary care. — The British journal of general practice 2026
4. How do digital access and remote consultations in primary care impact patients affected by domestic abuse? — The British journal of general practice 2026
5. What deters GPs from talking about sexual assault? — The British journal of general practice 2026
6. Ambient scribes in general practice - help or hindrance? — The British journal of general practice 2026
7. The relational dimension of safety netting. — The British journal of general practice 2026
8. Structured medication reviews: prescribing change is not the same as medicines optimisation. — The British journal of general practice 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering six notable papers spanning chronic disease and mental health complexity, respiratory care and infection tracking, and the clinical challenges of primary care referrals and prescribing. Let us dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Barriers and facilitators to practitioner prescribing and patient adoption of anti-inflammatory maintenance and reliever therapy (MART) for adult asthma: a qualitative study. — BMC Primary Care 2026
2. Experiences and perceptions of pharmacological treatment of obesity among primary health care physicians in Sweden: a qualitative content analysis study. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026
3. Differences in patient-reported outcomes across multimorbidity profiles in primary care: evidence from the first cycle of the OECD Patient Reported Indicator Surveys (PaRIS). — BMC Primary Care 2026
4. Self-reported infections in Norway: a study of incidence, doctor visits, antibiotic use, and absence from work. — BMC Primary Care 2026
5. Patient-specific variables predicting triage outcomes of ear, nose, throat referrals from primary care for dysphonia. — BMC Primary Care 2026
6. GPs' perspectives of the challenges in diagnosing depression: a qualitative study. — BJGP Open 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 7 notable papers spanning cardiometabolic health optimization, the patient and caregiver experience in primary care, and the digital and clinical competencies shaping modern practice. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Triglyceride-glucose index normalized by waist circumference and life's simple 7 to identify high-risk hypertensive patients in primary care. — BMC Primary Care 2026
2. Prevalence and factors associated with controlled blood pressure among hypertensive patients in a Malaysian primary health clinic-a cross-sectional study. — BMC Primary Care 2026
3. Barriers to satisfactory primary care contacts for Swedish cancer survivors: a cross-sectional survey. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026
4. The role of health literacy and attitudes toward artificial intelligence in the acceptance of telemedicine services among adults in Turkey: a cross-sectional study. — BMC Primary Care 2026
5. Caregiver's burden and their relationship to physical activity, exercise self-efficacy, perceived exercise benefits and barriers in caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder. — BMC Primary Care 2026
6. Facilitators of good consultations in primary health care clinics in Botswana: a qualitative study of patients' and doctors' views. — BMC Primary Care 2026
7. Knowledge, attitude and practice towards oral anticoagulants: a cross-sectional study among healthcare professionals in Nigeria. — BMC Primary Care 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning cardiometabolic risk stratification, expanding access through alternative preventive pathways, and improving care coordination for complex and vulnerable populations. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Enriching New-onset Diabetes for Pancreatic Cancer (ENDPAC): External validation using English sentinel network. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
2. Primary HPV Testing for Cervical Cancer Screening Among Family Medicine Educators. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026
3. Clinical phenotypes of type 2 diabetes and their association with microvascular complications in primary care: a cluster analysis. — BMC Primary Care 2026
4. An Analysis of Common Questions and Concerns of Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026
5. Recording of Pharmacy First consultations in general practice records in England: an observational study of the service's first year using OpenSAFELY. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
6. Disparities in the uptake of learning disability (intellectual disability) annual health checks. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
7. Learning disability register enrolment in young people in England: Cohort Study, 2015-2023. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
8. Characteristics of Children Seeking Care at School-Based Health Centers. — Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we are covering nine notable papers spanning maternal-fetal and neonatal health, geriatric cardiovascular prevention, and emerging diagnostic and therapeutic frontiers in oncology. Let us dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Reporting Interest-Holder Engagement in Practice Guidelines: The RIGHT-MuSE Checklist. — Annals of Internal Medicine 2026
2. Prenatal Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) Use and the Risk of Autism and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Among Sibling-Matched Cohorts. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026
3. 10-Minute Consultation: Discussing and prescribing analgesia in pregnancy. — BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2026
4. Metabolic determinants of cancer immunotherapy outcomes identified by plasma profiling. — Nature Medicine 2026
5. Ten-Year Outcomes after CAR T-Cell Therapy for B-Cell Lymphomas. — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026
6. Cardiovascular outcomes and safety associated with statin therapy for primary prevention in older adults with type 2 diabetes: A target trial emulation study. — PLoS Medicine 2026
7. Phase 3 Results of Bepirovirsen Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection. — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026
8. Using large language models to identify prediagnostic clinical features of ovarian cancer from healthcare records: a population-based case-control study. — The British Journal of General Practice 2026
9. Symptom-Based Dosing for Neonatal Opioid Withdrawal: The OPTimize NOW Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning clinical preventive strategies, optimized prescribing practices, and systemic improvements in primary care delivery. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Deprescription of proton pump inhibitors in the primary care setting in the Canary Islands. A randomized massive educational intervention. — BMC Primary Care 2026
2. Association between initial benzodiazepine prescribing patterns and time to benzodiazepine discontinuation: A population-based retrospective cohort study. — PLoS Medicine 2026
3. Benzylpenicillin versus flucloxacillin or cloxacillin for the treatment of penicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SNAP): an international, multicentre, open-label, non-inferiority randomised controlled trial. — The Lancet 2026
4. Estimated Effectiveness of 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccines in Adults. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026
5. The Convergence of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's Disease - Scientific and Ethical Imperatives. — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026
6. The course and management of symptom diagnoses in general practice. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026
7. Screening Children for Early-Stage Type 1 Diabetes. — JAMA 2026
8. Primary Care as a Public Utility: The Case for a Common Fund. — JAMA 2026
9. Major mental disorders among family caregivers: a nation-wide register-based study. — Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning chronic disease management, innovations in patient and provider support, and a look at the future of therapeutics. Let's dive in.

This week's papers:

1. Updated International Patient Decision Aid Standards (IPDAS version 5.0): modified Delphi, evidence informed consensus process. — BMJ 2026
2. Challenges in assessing statin-associated adverse events. — The Lancet 2026
3. Two distinct causes contribute to the low efficiency of human pre-implantation development. — Cell 2026
4. Mutation-dependent responses to sleep and exercise in clonal haematopoiesis. — Nature 2026
5. A cocktail of human mAbs targeting the henipavirus fusion and receptor binding proteins provides cross-species neutralization. — Science Translational Medicine 2026
6. Targeting Cancer-Specific Mutations with RNA-Triggered Chromatin Shredding. — Nature 2026
7. Structured Telehealth Community Health Worker-Clinician Feedback and Diabetes Outcomes: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA Internal Medicine 2026
8. Pragmatic Parental Support to Mitigate Burnout Among Pregnant and Postpartum Trainees: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026
9. Somatic cancer variants enriched in Alzheimer's disease microglia-like cells drive inflammatory and proliferative states. — Cell 2026

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Welcome to This Week in Family Medicine. This week we're covering 7 notable papers. We'll start with major global health updates, including the staggering 50-year return on investment from vaccination and a new look at the leading causes of death for children and adolescents. We'll then turn to practice-level interventions, with a major study on medically tailored meals and a trial that challenges…

This week's papers:

1. Estimates of global causes of death for children and adolescents aged 5-19 in 2000-24: secondary data analysis using bayesian multinomial logistic regression. — BMJ 2026
2. Global, regional, and national impact of the Expanded Programme on Immunization against 14 pathogens from 1974 to 2024: an economic evaluation. — The Lancet. Global health 2026
3. Spermine is an endogenous iron chelator that inhibits ferroptosis. — Nature 2026
4. Acquired genetic and cell-state changes in IDH-mutant glioma progression. — Nature 2026
5. Assessing quality of childbirth care provided by skilled health personnel in Exemplar countries. — Nature medicine 2026
6. Medically tailored meals receipt and healthcare utilization and costs in Massachusetts' Medicaid demonstration. — Nature medicine 2026
7. One-Year Mortality Among Opioid Overdose Survivors. — JAMA 2026
8. Benefits and Harms of Dementia Screening for Family Members of Older Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA internal medicine 2026

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