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

Annals of Family Medicine

The Osteoarthritis Severity Index (OASI) was developed to inform clinical trajectory of knee OA toward TKA and was previously created and validated in a nationally distributed, general population cohort of EHR data. The first OA diagnosis in record must occur from 2009-2014 and index date is OA diagnosis date.

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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. It remains questionable whether this modest effect is clinically relevant, or whether it justifies the effort and potential worries of patients. Last week (November 21), a systematic review of 65 studies was published.

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Personalized medicine in a community health system: the Endeavor Health experience [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine. More than 35,000 patients completed clinical genetic testing following GWA or BHA completion.

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Here We Go Again

Adventures of a Sick Doctor

Must have had a rough clinic, I supposed; a family of 4 had gone in before me, and that is never good. Still though, he usually perks up when I come in, because he gets to show me my scans from November 2014 and compare them with now and we both applaud the wondrousness of the miracle that is my recovery.

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

42:00 Abolitionist reimaginings of Health 55:05 Democratizing Narrative Medicine 1:03:05 Closing Remarks and Clinical Pearls Speaker biographies (Abbreviated) Zahra Khan is an educator and editor whose work emerges at the intersection of narrative, healing and disability justice, and liberation pedagogy. 2014 Feb;103:126-133.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

GeriPal

Often the work of the certified driving rehab specialist is to assess the older drivers goals, assess prognosis for driving, and help the family navigate discussions around driving cessation (hmmm…sounds like an approach to family meetings). Were those people self referring, or family members calling you asking? Eric: Yeah.

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