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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

Community Health Centres (CHCs) provide TBC for both urban and rural populations with barriers to care in Ontario, Canada, and they share a common electronic health record (EHR) system that records codes assigned by providers during an encounter. This dataset comes from 59 CHCs across Ontario, Canada.

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Reducing cancer deaths, one test at a time

Permanente Medicine

When a patient visits any physician for any reason, they are reminded that it is time for their screening, flagged by our integrated electronic health record. per 100,000 in 2009 to 23.5 But at its core, this program is about communicating with patients and understanding their needs. in 2000 to 79.8% Douglas A.

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

GeriPal

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that.