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Validation of Mood and Anxiety Disorder Case Definitions using Primary Care Electronics Medical Records [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Mental health conditions have increasing prevalence, co-occurrence, and high management burden within primary care settings. Setting: De-identified EMR data from 1,574 primary care providers participating in the Canadian Primary Care Sentinel Surveillance Network (CPCSSN).

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Do statins reduce mortality in older people? Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records

BMJ

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

And then once I came to the United States, I saw this whole different dimension of pain, because I started residency in 2011, this was really at the peak of the opioid prescription epidemic, if you may. So Eric Cassell, for folks who don’t know, was a primary care physician. And I was an internal medicine resident.

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Podcast Episode: The Unvaccinated Child with Fever

PEMBlog

Immunization status and the management of febrile children in the pediatric emergency department: what are we doing? Pediatr Emerg Care. And Van den Bruel in BMJ 2011 found procalcitonin to have better specificity than white blood cell count. How we evaluate and manage these children because unfortunately. 2023;39(1):1-5.