Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context Chronic pain is a common, complex, and costly condition that is managed primarily in primary care in Canada. 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.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Genomic and personalized medicine implementation efforts have largely centered on specialty care in tertiary health systems. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. Setting: Community-based integrated health system in northern Illinois and across metropolitan Chicagoland.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

But then once it was open, started seeing a lot of other populations: not just our own hospital population, but a lot more just community members calling with concerns about driving. So that’s a piece that I think is important for providers anywhere along that process to be asking about driving. “Do you guys do this?”

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. link] Kensington Hospice & ‘Radical Love’ Equity-Oriented Hospice Palliative Care Naheed Dosani also serves as the Medical Director of Kensington Hospice, Torontos largest hospice.

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GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I cant do the primary thing Ive been trained to do: ABC, ABC, ABCs. Most emergency providers wanted to do the right thing for seriously ill patients, but they didnt have the knowledge, skills, or experience to do it. We weren’t randomizing providers or patients. This is not why I went into emergency medicine.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries.

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