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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. Conclusion CFHA believes that MBC is a critical process that guides, informs, and enhances clinical practices at all levels of integrated care systems. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 18(1), 104–110.

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Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed). The Ministry also reported that Montreal had 1,922 family doctors (FTE in place) practicing within its boundaries. Some may be retired or working elsewhere.

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When Worlds Collide: The Theory of Real-World Evidence Meets Reality

FDA Law Blog

FDA has even gone so far as to maintain that the “real-life clinical performance of a medical product might be more clearly demonstrated through RWD/RWE because a controlled clinical trial often cannot evaluate all applications of a product in clinical practice across the full range of potential users.”

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Episode 141: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 2 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 1: Historical and Ethical Perspectives with Edwin Lindo

The Clinical Problem Solvers

37:50​ Race vs. ancestry vs genetics–implications for research and clinical practice 52:02 ​What can we start doing tomorrow? 2012 Sep;53(3):279-95. Race vs. ancestry vs genetics–implications for research and clinical practice What can we start doing tomorrow? racial essentialism). racial essentialism).

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. This is just because this arose organically in clinical practice as a way of balancing these underlying competing ethical issues. Alex 17:35 Can I interject here?

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

We make evidence that other groups use to make guidelines"), the passage of the Affordable Care Act made AHRQ a target again in 2012, when a House appropriations subcommittee voted to zero out its budget again. Ironically, the need for AHRQ's work has never been greater.