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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The predictors of exposure to DDI among the population of non-elderly community-dwelling adults are unknown. 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.

Family Physician

Family Physician Community Insurance Consulting

The Importance of Community Resources for Breastfeeding [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

It is unclear how community resources may impact BF practices. Objective: To explore the association of community resources with BF, and whether the association varies based on maternal race, ethnicity and country of birth. a census tract measure of community resources associated with child development.

Community

Community Education Individual Hospital

Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives: 1) To measure the frequency of exposure to high-priority DDI among non-elderly community-dwelling non-elderly adults in Québec. DDI exposures were considered incident if the individual was not exposed to a DDI in the year preceding cohort entry. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0) Conclusions: One in 8.5

Primary Care

Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER

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

The Clinical Problem Solvers

MARCH 4, 2024

Her research, writing, and community engagement focuses on shifting consciousness in medical education toward abolitionist possibilities. She came from an activist family, with her mother being one of the first South Asian feminist activists in the country. Learn more about her work at www.sayantanidasgupta.com.

Community

Community Education Patient-Centered Relationship

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

GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

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.

IT

IT Family Families Diagnosis

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Michael’s Hospital in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. The social determinants of health and what community well being was a big part of. those experiencing homelessness).

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Community Illness

Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

And back then, mostly we took care of each other in the cells and it was like a family thing. AIDs didn’t know any color or creed, so it was a family thing, we all took care of each other. I am there with individuals who are dying. And it’s a family environment, it becomes like a big family here.

IT

IT Family Families Board-Certified

Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

And yet, disenrollment from hospice, either due to patient/family revoking the benefit or stabilization of illness (extended prognosis) is remarkably high for people with dementia among some hospices. In fact, as Lauren Hunt found , the average likelihood that a person will be disenrolled from one hospice vs. another is two. AlexSmithMD.

Family

Family Families IT Patients

Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2011-2014 JAMDA 2020 Efficacy of Gabapentinoids: Gabapentinoids for Pain: Potential Unintended Consequences. I also heard that if you look at all individuals in the US, about 4% of individuals are taking one of the gabapentinoids, 10% over 65. These are families who are in distress. Nisha: Both of them are generic, yeah.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Healthcare Medical

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

We are also joined by LaVera Crawly, a physician turned chaplain, now VP of Spiritual Care at Common Spirit Health (and author of another of my favorite and most cited papers on palliative care in the African American Community ). LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. I don’t see a lot of those out there. LaVera: Yes.

IT

IT Patient-Centered Families Family

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

So Tammie developed something called EPIC for Emergency medicine, which is a curriculum that was one of the first ways that I think palliative care got spread in our community. We adapted a small group of us, Vital Talk for emergency medicine, which is communication skills training using simulation. And so we use that. No difference.

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

GeriPal

DECEMBER 7, 2023

was supported by the fossil fuel industry , because it shifted responsibility for change from industry to individuals. Leslie Wharton is a leader in the 26,000 member grassroots organization Elders Climate Action , which organizes older adults to create communities engaged in making a difference at local, state, and national levels.

Healthcare

Healthcare IT Education Community

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

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. The effects of lowering LDL cholesterol with statin therapy in people at low risk of vascular disease: meta-analysis of individual data from 27 randomised trials. www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/code-of-practice

Primary Care

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

BMJ

AUGUST 20, 2021

By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

Primary Care

Primary Care Supply Chain General Practitioner Vaccination

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

The Importance of Community Resources for Breastfeeding [Child and adolescent health]

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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

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

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

PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

Hospice in Prison Part 2: An interview with the Pastoral Care Workers

Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

Aging and Climate Change: Karl Pillemer, Leslie Wharton, & Ruth McDermott-Levy

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

Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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