AI-Generated Draft Replies Integrated Into Health Records and Physicians' Electronic Communication.

Importance: Timely tests are warranted to assess the association between generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) use and physicians' work efforts.

Objective: To investigate the association between GenAI-drafted replies for patient messages and physician time spent on answering messages and the length of replies.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Randomized waiting list quality improvement (QI) study from June to August 2023 in an academic health system.

Promoting self-management in diabetes: efficacy of a collaborative care approach.

Diabetes is a leading cause of death and is estimated to cost the United States 90 billion dollars annually. Increasing patient self-management skills has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with Type II diabetes. Promotion of shared decision-making between patient and provider is a core element of collaborative care and is especially well suited for increasing patient self-management.

If you build it, will they come? A qualitative evaluation of the use of video-based decision aids in primary care.

Background And Objectives: Given the growing presence of Patient-centered Medical Home practices and the need for patient participation, it is concerning that tools to improve patient participation are not widely used in primary care. Despite demonstrated effect on decision quality and patient satisfaction, decision aids (DAs) are not broadly utilized. We conducted focus groups to examine the use of DAs and uncovered barriers to greater DA utilization in primary care.

Continuing professional development for interprofessional teams supporting patients in healthcare decision making.

Healthcare professionals and organizations, policy makers, and the public are calling for safe and effective care that is centered on patients' needs, values, and preferences. The goals of interprofessional shared decision making and decision support are to help patients and professionals agree on choices that are effective, health promoting, realistic, and consonant with patients' and professionals' values and preferences. This requires collaboration among professionals and with patients and their family caregivers.

Diverticular disease: diagnosis and treatment.

Diverticular disease refers to symptomatic and asymptomatic disease with an underlying pathology of colonic diverticula. Predisposing factors for the formation of diverticula include a low-fiber diet and physical inactivity. Approximately 85 percent of patients with diverticula are believed to remain asymptomatic.