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

Annals of Family Medicine

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

Annals of Family Medicine

There are few examples of fully integrated care systems that span the healthcare continuum. In 2014, Endeavor Health (formerly NorthShore University HealthSystem) launched the Center for Personalized Medicine to catalyze the delivery of personalized medicine.

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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

N=35 nurses were interviewed; n=6 primary care, n=7 emergency care and n=22 from other areas. A semi-structured interview guide based on Daouk-Öyry’s (2014) joint model of nurse absenteeism and turnover was used. Primary care nurses were more likely to work as float nurses compared with emergency nurses.

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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

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. Population: a 5% random sample of adult (19-64y) Quebec residents covered by the public drug insurance in 2014-2017 was used. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0) Conclusions: One in 8.5

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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.

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AAP Updates Recommendations for Adolescent Contraceptive Counseling

Physician's Weekly

from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and colleagues updated the 2014 policy statement on contraception for adolescents to provide pediatricians with evidence-informed and equity-informed practices in contraceptive care.

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Attrition Rates High Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Medical Students

Physician's Weekly

The analysis included 2014 to 2017 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges data warehouse (83,342 matriculants and 56,031 respondents to the Matriculating Student Questionnaire [MSQ]). The researchers found that attrition rates were higher among MSQ nonrespondents (3.8 percent).