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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

Context: Comprehensive primary care is the foundation of an effective healthcare system but has been on the decline as more family physicians pursue careers in focused practice. physicians who work <44 days per year with <5 patients per day) followed a U-shaped distribution, starting at 20.5% in 2009/2010 and ending at 20.4%

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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

Background Team-based care (TBC) has established benefits for patient outcomes. In both cases, TBC can help by providing a collaborative approach to care that can better manage the complex needs of patients. In both cases, TBC can help by providing a collaborative approach to care that can better manage the complex needs of patients.

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Family physicians perform high-quality colonoscopies, but access is an issue

Common Sense Family Doctor

Most patients who choose colonoscopy as a screening test for colorectal cancer are referred from primary care to a gastroenterologist or other specialist who performs endoscopy. But that wasn’t the case for the estimated 1 in 15 US patients whose screening colonoscopies were performed by family physicians in 2021.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To validate the use of OASI among patients with knee OA to predict TKA in Veterans Health Affairs-Corporate Data Warehouse (VHA-CDW) administrative dataset. The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. Final sample size was 435,731.

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Medicine is a Love that Finds Us

A Country Doctor Writes

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. In my day to day work I always look for the story behind each patient’s symptom and even behind their laboratory values. It snatched me, a quiet four year old boy, almost sixty [ eight(!) ] years ago.

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I Feel Things.

StorytellERdoc

What started as a small adventure and challenge from my writing group, with my first posting on November 19, 2009, turned into quite an amazing ride throughout the literary and social media world. As before, I still love my three amazing kids and my big forestry family. The number of friends I met was staggering. I won prizes.

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Beyond Training: How Context Matters for Early Detection of Alzheimers Disease in Primary Care [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Davos Alzheimer’s Collaborative Healthcare System Preparedness (DAC-SP) aims to catalyze global healthcare system transformation, providing Alzheimer’s patients and their families quicker access to life-changing innovations and therapies. Setting Primary care settings in the DAC-SP early detection program.