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Using EMR data to describe administrative workload of primary care providers in Nova Scotia, Canada [Secondary data analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Primary care providers in Canada face significant workload challenges, including managing prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests alongside patient visits. Outcome measures: Average number of prescriptions, referrals, and laboratory tests per encounters among primary care providers in Nova Scotia from 2007 to 2022.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 5: Management of the child with mental health problems who is boarded in the ED

PEMBlog

Children’s Mental Health Emergency Department Visits: 2007-2016. Alice Kuo and Ilene Claudius Podcast EIIC: Safe Control of the Agitated Patient Webinar Series with Dr. Pediatrics. 2021;147(5):e2020030692. doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-030692 2020-030692 Lo CB, Bridge JA, Shi J, Ludwig L, Stanley RM. Pediatrics. 2020 Jun;145(6):e20191536.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

Schools are seeing increased concerns related to managing acute and chronic health conditions, mental health issues and health fragility. 1075 ( Representative Elkins ) requires pharmacy benefit managers and health carriers to use prescription drug rebates and other compensation to benefit covered people. Read a summary of S.F.

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Fracture Fridays: Keeping up with the Joneses

PEMBlog

Management The XRays of stress fractures and acute fractures can look similar, but the management differs significantly. The rate of nonunion in displaced fractures managed conservatively may be up to 50%. The risk of treatment failure and delay in return to sports were significantly greater in those managed with casting alone.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults. J Inherit Metab Dis 2007; 30:631. Pediatrics 2021; 147. Sedel F, Baumann N, Turpin JC, et al. Psychiatric manifestations revealing inborn errors of metabolism in adolescents and adults. Chun TH, Sargent J, Hodas GR.

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The Key to Higher Case Acceptance

CDOCS

We recently spoke with Matt Jones, the Senior Business Development Manager at LendingClub Patient Solutions, about why LendingClub is the right choice for any practice.</span></p> We&rsquo;ve been helping people afford their dentistry since 2007 and currently work with over 23,000 providers nationwide.

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Exploring the Use of Intranasal Dexmedetomidine for Anxiolysis and Minimal Sedation

PEMBlog

The most common things you might see are bradycardia and hypotension, but these are usually mild and easy to manage. 2007 Mar;8(2):115-31. At the doses we’re talking about for minimal sedation (1-2 mcg/kg intranasally), side effects are pretty rare. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2008 Aug;21(4):457-61. doi: 10.1097/ACO.0b013e328305e3ef.