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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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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. Neurovascular compromise is, as always, a cause for immediate referral. The rate of nonunion in displaced fractures managed conservatively may be up to 50%. 2007 Jun;27(4):427-31. PMID: 26926612.

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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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