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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. Results: Our cohort included 63,834 individuals aged 19-64 (mean age 44.9 of all prescriptions claimed were issued by a family physician.

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Medicaid expansion is in the eye of the beholder

The Health Policy Exchange

Instead, the Court gave individual states the option to accept or decline the expansion, which, though far more generous with federal matching funds than the existing program, would still require states to spend more within already strapped budgets. Kenny Lin, MD Director, Robert L. Phillips, Jr.

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" Healthcare organizations administrative policies are just too rigid. ": why nurses leave primary and emergency care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

A semi-structured interview guide based on Daouk-Öyry’s (2014) joint model of nurse absenteeism and turnover was used. The individual, interpersonal, occupational, organizational and national considerations underpinning their decision to quit were analysed. Instrument. Outome Measures. Conclusions.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

SAFE used a stratified, two-stage, clustered design to obtain a nationally representative sample of mothers of infants; mothers were enrolled from 32 US birth hospitals, January 2011-March 2014. Looking beyond the individual and supporting healthy communities will be critical to improve US breastfeeding rates.

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Healthcare Gentrification and Access to Care Equity: Results From a Scoping Review [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

2010), as well as more recent scoping review methodology guidelines described by Colquhoun (2014). This scoping review followed the steps outlined by Arksey and O’Malley (2005) with the methodological refinements proposed by Levac et al. We adhered to the six stages of scoping review methodology.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

DDI exposures were considered incident if the individual was not exposed to a DDI in the year preceding cohort entry. Population: a 5% random sample of adult (19-64y) Quebec residents covered by the public drug insurance in 2014-2017 was used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

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

GeriPal

Lexy: Yeah, so I can say that I became about, in 2014, I had the opportunity to lead a center at our health system called the Evans Center that focuses on religion, spirituality, and health. LaVera: I trained at UCSF in family medicine. We randomized individual patients either to the SKY framework or to usual care.

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