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The burden of mental health on Canadian primary care following Covid-19 [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To measure and compare the proportion of primary care visits associated with mental health before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The time horizon was anchored in January 2012: pre-pandemic period was defined as January 2012 to March 2020, and the pandemic period as April 2020 to June 2022.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

He looked very ill. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. There’s an organization that I took my training from, which began, I want to say, in 2012. This is the non-medical part of someone being ill.

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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. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good.