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

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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. HOUSE HEALTH COMMITTEE On Wednesday, March 19, 2025, the House Health Committee heard a series of health care bills addressing insurance coverage and medication pricing. Read a summary of S.F.

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

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? Same thing with kind of medication management. Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? Alex: The Wayback Machine.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

GeriPal

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. . I don’t even remember pain management teaching. AlexSmithMD . Eric: Yeah.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

GeriPal

Should she be treated non-operatively, with aggressive symptom management? What does it mean for functional status, symptom management, location of care? That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. We’re available, palliative care. Joel: I’ll come into that in a second. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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

GeriPal

It was like this patient is on hospice and call the case manager to figure out how the patient ended up here. So we did have a clinical decision support pop up that said, hey, this patient has serious illness, why don’t you go have a goals of care discussion? No difference in their primary outcome. No, no, no.

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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

The decision to initiate insulin is a critical aspect of diabetes management and is influenced by various patient-specific factors. Setting or Dataset: Participant data were selected from the Extramural LUMC Academic Network(ELAN) primary care database between 2007 and 2023.

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