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

Annals of Family Medicine

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a health professions education model that uses telehealth technology to bridge specialists to community clinicians to disseminate best practices and foster interprofessional collaboration.

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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. However, mediation analysis showed almost all of treatment effects on DR were due to both UI and SF declines, after controlling for covariates (age, race, income, education, comorbidity and study site, p=0.002, p<0.001, respectively).

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Family Medicine: Finding Its Way on the Federal Research Roadmap [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Challenges persist in securing substantial funding for the Family Medicine (FM) research enterprise, particularly from major sources like the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This project emerged from the 2023 Family Medicine Research Summit, and serves as a periodic update to similar analyses conducted in 2008 and 2015.

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Remembering Holly J. Humphrey, MD, MACP

ABIM

Humphrey, MD, MACP, a nationally renowned leader in medical education and President of the Josiah Macy Jr. She served as the chair of the Board from 2006 to 2007 and chair of the ABIM Foundation Board of Trustees from 2014 to 2016. Foundation, passed yesterday from pancreatic cancer.

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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. There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum.

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

Annals of Family Medicine

race/ethnicity, income, education). 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. Context: Breastfeeding (BF) has many benefits for infant health. 2.3]) and exclusive BF (aOR 1.7 [95%

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Does transitional care management improve outcomes after discharge from the hospital?

Common Sense Family Doctor

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.