Leawood, KS — The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) announced the release of our fall immunization recommendations, reinforcing our unwavering commitment to the health of communities across ...

“Admin time” refers to time spent on administrative tasks, which are often related to patient care but occur outside the direct patient interaction. These tasks include charting, answering messages, ...

Many primary care physicians may find it impractical to have this nuanced discussion with so many other preventive care and chronic disease management topics to address in a typical office visit. In ...

To whom does this recommendation apply? This recommendation applies to adults without a history of stroke or neurologic signs or symptoms of a transient ischemic attack. What's new? This ...

Health maintenance for women of reproductive age includes counseling and screening tests that have been demonstrated to prevent disease and improve health. This article focuses mainly on conditions ...

Adults commonly present to their family physicians with hip pain, and diagnosing the cause is important for prescribing effective therapy. Hip pain is usually located anteriorly, laterally, or ...

Dystocia (abnormally slow or protracted labor) accounts for 25% to 55% of primary cesarean deliveries. The latent phase of labor begins with onset of regular, painful contractions and continues until ...

Peripheral neuropathy, a common neurologic problem encountered by family physicians, can be classified clinically by the anatomic pattern of presenting symptoms and, if indicated, by results of ...

• AAP, in contrast to the USPSTF, recommends screening for ASD at 18 and 24 months of age. • Chromosomal microarray and fragile X testing can provide prognostic and genetic counseling information to ...

In a nonpregnant adult with clinical signs and symptoms of appendicitis, CT has a sensitivity of 95% and specificity of 94%. Therefore, the probability of having appendicitis following a positive CT ...

Asymptomatic bacteriuria, defined as the presence of bacteria in the urine in the absence of urinary symptoms, is a common clinical finding that often warrants a decision about whether to initiate ...

• As-needed SABA therapy alone is not recommended because of severe exacerbations and mortality risks. • As-needed use of a low-dose ICS/formoterol combination is preferred in adolescents and adults ...