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Comprehensive and Focus Practice changes in the Family Physician Workforce in Ontario:1993-2022 [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

in 2009/2010 and ending at 20.4% The trend of very part time primary care physicians (i.e., physicians who work <44 days per year with <5 patients per day) followed a U-shaped distribution, starting at 20.5% in 1993/1994, dropping to a low of 15.0% in 2021/2022. and focused practice physicians increased by 317.9%.

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Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. Population Studied: Adults aged 45-80 years with knee OA identified by ICD-9/10 code, no history of psoriatic or rheumatoid arthritis, and no history of TKA prior to index date. Final sample size was 435,731.

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Describing Differences Across Place and Provider in Canadian Team-Based Care Settings Using Electronic Health Records [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset We used an aggregate dataset derived from CHC EHRs containing 13,688,536 encounters between 2009 and 2019 from 220,580 clients. Our analysis employs Structural Topic Models, which can additionally model effects of covariates like urban/rural status and provider type on the distributions of codes and topics.

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Understanding the care for older people in rural China: The role of primary care providers as "the third sphere" [Global health]

Annals of Family Medicine

To address this crisis, China has launched the National Essential Public Health Services (NEPHS) program in 2009, which includes several elderly care initiatives. Context: The unprecedented trend in population aging has provoked global care crises for older adults.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

Since we basically don’t have a clue, let alone agreement, about what Quality really is ( see my 2009 post “ Quality or Conformity? Instead, there was a dual focus of maximizing billing and controlling the “Quality” in clinician performance.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I Googled his name and found another article he had written, in 2009, in the Swedish Medical Journal, Läkartidningen. The writer’s name was Christer Petersson, and he looked and wrote as if he was someone I had known from High School. That article was titled “ I worked as a Doctor for 20 Years.

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2009 to 2018 saw increase in total expenditure for insulin

Medical Xpress

The price of insulin has increased in the United States, with the burden of out-of-pocket (OOP) costs rising considerably among uninsured individuals, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in the Journal of Diabetes.