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Evaluating the National rollout of a pharmacist-led information technology intervention (PINCER) in English general practice [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Regression accounted for clustering within practices, repeated measures over time, and differing intervention start dates. Dataset: Patients within general practices in England who are included in the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) with linkage to PINCER implementation dates.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

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And as of 2015, the survey started to ask folks about cancer history, just some broad questions about lifetime history of cancer and whether they’ve had a cancer diagnosis in the past year. But alcohol and opioids are up there. We’re just asking the bare minimum here for people to take that type of history.

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