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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, amidst a national opioid crisis and debate surrounding opioid guidelines, ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship (‘ECHO Pain’), the first ECHO in Canada, was launched. Objective To describe the achievements of ECHO Pain and highlight our research and program evaluation progress over ten years.

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Predictors of exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec, Canada [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Population Studied: Community-dwelling non-elderly adults (19-64 years) residents of Quebec and covered by the public prescription drug insurance between 2014 and 2017.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date. Population Studied: Adults aged 45-80 years with knee OA identified by ICD-9/10 code, no history of psoriatic or rheumatoid arthritis, and no history of TKA prior to index date. Final sample size was 435,731.

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Preventing Blood Pressure Misdiagnosis: Arm Position & Cuff Size

Family Medicine Initiative

Yet, a review in 2014 showed that guidelines and studies still recommend and use different arm positions. As early as 1897, Hill and Barnard called for standardization of blood pressure measurements, since arm position affects the results (see BMJ 1897 ).

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Decisional Regret Two-Year after Diagnosis with Low-risk Prostate Cancer in a Population-based Sample [Cancer research (not screening)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients: Black and White men ≤75 years with newly diagnosed LPC, 2014 to 2017. Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Setting: Population-based sample recruited from two cancer registries. Instrument: Mailed surveys that included validated Decision Regret Scale (DRS), and EPIC-26 prostate cancer-specific QOL measures.

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Tuberculosis Patterns Vary by Migrant Origin and Arrival Timing

Physician's Weekly

The following is a summary of “Differences found in patient characteristics of migrant tuberculosis sub-populations within low TB incidence European countries, 2014–2020,” published in the June 2025 issue of BMC Infectious Diseases by Jackson et al.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

In 2014, states that accept the ACA's Medicaid expansion will be required to extend eligibility to all adults (parents or not) earning less than or equal to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, which works out to annual incomes of $15,856 for an individual and $26,951 for a family of three.

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