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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

In rural areas, TBC can help address challenges arising from limited access to specialized care. 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.

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15 Years Strong: Rare Disease Week’s Remarkable Journey of Support

FDA Law Blog

Sasinowski — In 2009 — 15 years ago — the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) announced the first U.S. In 2009 I served as Chair of NORD and through the hard work of countless colleagues we inaugurated the first Rare Disease Day. By Frank J. recognition of Rare Disease Day.

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Episode 148: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 4 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 2: Clinical Perspectives

The Clinical Problem Solvers

J Epidemiol Community Health. 2009 May;139(1):47-57. Use of Risk Assessment Tools to Guide Decision-Making in the Primary Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: A Special Report From the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology [published correction appears in J Am Coll Cardiol. N Engl J Med.

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

GeriPal

primary palliative care interventions seem to fail, whereas specialized palliative care interventions have a relatively robust track record of success. 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.

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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

GeriPal

Usually I don’t put a lot of background on this podcast, but I got to … in November of 2022, Ava Kofman, along with ProPublica, published … well I won’t want to say great, published an article in The New Yorker that I think it was divisive in the hospice and palliative care community. Now it’s 70%.

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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

GeriPal

She’s a geriatric nurse practitioner specializing in palliative care, and assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing. I was like, how do you disseminate this knowledge out to these community nursing homes in rural Georgia so that people know about this? Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast, Joan. Joan: Thanks.

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FDA Announces it is Ready to Act on Menthol Cigarettes, but its Success is Uncertain

FDA Law Blog

In 2009, Congress specifically exempted “tobacco or menthol” when it prohibited all other flavored cigarettes under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (TCA)’s “ Special Rule for Cigarettes.” 111-58, at 38-39 (2009). Even the African American community is split on the issue of a menthol ban.

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