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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. vital signs, bloodwork laboratory findings, and other physical test data) as a means of guiding care over time. Lengerich, A.

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Risking It All For a New Business Model at Family Physicians of St. Joe

Family Physicians of St. Joseph

Larger companies now dominate the healthcare landscape, yet through innovation and a dedication to exceptional patient care, Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Family Physicians of St. Eggebrecht joined in 1993, at a time when family doctors still rounded in the hospital and delivered babies. Joseph, P.C.,

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>Pathways to Primary Care - Charting trajectories from medical school graduation through specialty training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Create a quantitative Sankey diagram of the flow of US physicians from medical school graduation through postgraduate training into PC specialties: family medicine (FM), general internal medicine (IM), and general pediatrics (Peds). Population Studied: US physicians who graduated from medical school 2001-2015.

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Episode 392: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 27 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 2

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Simon is a pediatric addiction medicine psychiatrist at Boston Children’s Hospital; an assistant professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; a recent Commonwealth Fund fellow in health policy at Harvard University; and the medical director of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.  Epub 2015 Dec 1. Psychiatr Serv.

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

It’s the physics of physician bandwidth: You can’t add something without taking something away. This thread from a 2015 post illustrates how varying needs of a child with ulcerative colitis call for different ways to connect: Take Luke, a school-aged child with moderate ulcerative colitis complicated by sclerosing cholangitis.

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A review of the utility of the ECG in Pediatric Syncope

PEMBlog

History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. Congenital Long QT Syndrome with arrow showing QT interval (courtesy of life in the fast lane [link] LQT1 is most common, triggered by emotional or physical stress (diving, swimming).

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Palliative Rehab?!?: Ann Henshaw, Tamra Keeney, and Sarguni Singh

GeriPal

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Therapists are so much more. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.