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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

Neurovascular compromise is, as always, a cause for immediate referral. 2007 Jun;27(4):427-31. 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%. Am Fam Physician. 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? So one of the big pieces of this is that idea of a referral at a second time when they’re less overwhelmed and stressed to figure out what happened. Eric: Yeah.

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