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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. From 1993 to 2022, the proportion of comprehensive primary care physicians decreased from 71.1% in 2009/2010 and ending at 20.4%

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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

2010) and adapted by Schultz et al. Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. Outcome Measures: All were included.

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How Locum Tenens Fits Into Modern Healthcare Staffing Solutions

Barton Associates

There’s a lot that goes into running a healthcare facility , from managing patient care to ensuring adequate coverage around the clock. In these complex and ever-changing environments, staffing challenges can quickly become a critical issue, impacting both patient care quality and operational efficiency.

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Though the field of medicine often fails to think systematically, it is imperative that all healthcare workers learn to recognize racism, actively practice anti-racism, and acknowledge the many systems that impact people and community’s health. Harvard Medical School Primary Care Blog. 2010 Oct;71(8):1390-8. Directors).

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Rural-urban differences in continuity of primary care among persons with prediabetes [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Continuity of primary care is associated with better health outcomes, however, there are known disparities related to access to primary care among rural populations potentially fracturing continuity of care. A healthcare system located throughout central and northeast Pennsylvania serving a large rural population.

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AGS Beers Criteria for Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use: A Podcast with Todd Semla and Mike Steinman

GeriPal

And then in 2010, the AGS took over because it was sort of wafting out there and people were wondering, when are you going to update it? And we were trying to get funding from different places and then AGS kind of stepped in and so they’ve been the stewards of it since 2010. Who’s going to update it?

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

We start off part one by interviewing Michele DiTomas, who has been the longstanding Medical Director of the Hospice unit and currently is also the Chief Medical Executive for the Palliative care Initiative with the California Correctional Healthcare Services. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California.

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