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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. MBC is a clinical process that includes repeated measurement to monitor treatment progress and to inform collaborative treatment planning over the course of care. (1) What is MBC? 1, 8, 9) d.

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You don’t need to order comprehensive viral panels for most patients

PEMBlog

Many children are colonized or have asymptomatic shedding of viruses, especially in the winter months, but the virus is not the cause of their acute symptoms. . · Testing for specific viruses might be indicated if the results of the testing may alter treatment plans (e.g., isolation for SARS-CoV-2).

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Ashwin Kotwal: Yeah, and Thomas, I know this is something we’ve talked about as a group too, which is how do you translate some of these scales that we use in large studies to our clinical practice? Julianne: I’ll also add I mean another potential approach is also integrating social connection into existing treatment plans.

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