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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. This study aims to analyze electronic medical record (EMR) data to understand these workload dynamics. 0.9SD) encounters per patient since 2007.

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MN Legislative Session 2025: Updates on Health Care Bills

Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians

2413 ( Senator Mann ) creates a new assessment on hospitals to increase Medical Assistance reimbursement rates. Schools are seeing increased concerns related to managing acute and chronic health conditions, mental health issues and health fragility. Read a summary of S.F. The bill supports a coordinated approach to services.

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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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In particular, she reminds us that when we think about the most challenging of our patient encounters, they almost always involve a complex psychosocial dynamic, and this has received far less attention than communication and symptom management issues. . He is a pulmonologist and critical care physician. AlexSmithMD .

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? Alex: Today, we are delighted to welcome Joel Weissman, who is a health services researcher and deputy director and chief science officer for surgery at the Center for Surgery and Public Health at Harvard Medical School. Did I get that right? Joel: Oh yeah.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well.

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Navigating Insulin Initiation in Type 2 Diabetes: Unraveling the Sociodemographic and Biological Dynamics [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Treatment strategy for type 2 diabetes mellitus(T2DM) often involves stepwise medication intensification, including the consideration of insulin therapy. The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors.

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