Evaluation and Management Clinical Example Development Process: Phase I- Clinical Examples for Family Medicine

Why This Topic Matters

It helps readers see how E/M clinical examples were assembled for family medicine and how the project was organized across common office and inpatient scenarios. That context can support education, review, and comparison of documentation complexity across visit types.

Article Sections

1. Background and project overview

   Introduces the AMA-directed clinical example development effort and explains how the examples were gathered and organized for family medicine.

2. Office and outpatient examples for established patients

   Presents common family medicine scenarios for established patients across lower and higher levels of evaluation and management service.

3. Office and outpatient examples for new patients

   Presents comparable family medicine scenarios for new patient visits, illustrating the same broad clinical themes across multiple service levels.

4. Hospital and subsequent care examples

   Shows inpatient and follow-up hospital scenarios used to represent evaluation and management complexity in admitted patients.