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Development of a Multidisciplinary Clinic for the Treatment of Obesity in a Canadian University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) [Obesity, exercise and nutrition]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context In 2018, 63.1% Population Studied Patients with obesity enrolled in the Méta-Santé clinic. Setting The North of Lanaudière University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) Intervention Upon referral from their family doctor, patients attend a group course on nutrition and metabolic health.

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Utilization of Treatment for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea in the Primary Care Setting Using the American Family Cohort [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: A retrospective cohort from 2018-2022. Setting or Dataset: Electronic health records from the PRIME Registry, years 2018-2022. The electronic health records are stored in the American Family Cohort, the largest national United States primary care database. treatment rates, respectively.

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Why did efforts to expand Canadian family medicine residency training to three years fail? An education policy analysis [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Family physicians in Canada have one of the broadest scopes of practice and shortest postgraduate residency training periods among high income nations. In 2018, the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) reviewed Canadian family medicine training and determined it must evolve to meet contemporary societal needs.

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To understand if the pandemic resulted in changes in care for patients with diabetes. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description. Results: We identified 84,617 patients for the cohort study.

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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

A patient partner from the Deaf community collaborated on each step of this project. Study Design and Analysis: A scoping review of reviews was conducted according to Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) methodological framework, completed by Levac et al. 2010) and adapted by Schultz et al.

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Towards a Fundamental Unit of Continuity of Care [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes. Many proposed methods for measuring continuity utilize an aggregation of patient visits. These patients had 54% of 2019 visits with their PCP.

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