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Translating complex clinical environments to virtual care: Standards of Care in Virtual Medicine in Canada [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Rapid adoption of virtual care in early 2020, meant there was little time to develop or plan integrated virtual health care services, resulting in an urgency to establish governance for quality-based virtual care in Canada. Ethical, professional and legal requirements were alike for virtual care and in-person settings.

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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

COVID-19's impact surpasses previous pandemics, disrupting medical education by delaying clinical rotations and necessitating a rapid transition to telemedicine due to isolation and PPE shortages. Objective: To understand COVID-19's impact on physicians-in-training and their preparedness and well-being amidst clinical and lifestyle changes.

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Prescribing ADHD Meds by Telehealth Does Not Alter Risk for Substance Use Disorder Overall

Physician's Weekly

from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug. from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues conducted a retrospective cohort study using electronic health record data from March 1, 2020, to Aug.

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Triglyceride-Glucose Indices Predict Risk of NASH in NAFLD

Physician's Weekly

adults with NAFLD: results from NHANES 2017-2020,” published in the June 2025 issue of Frontiers in Endocrinology by Ma et al. The RCS analysis found no significant nonlinear associations for composite indices, while TyG showed a significant nonlinear relationship.

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A Primary Care PBRN Impact and Strategic Clarity Initiative : Journey, Outcomes and Lessons Learned [Research capacity building]

Annals of Family Medicine

RRSPUM includes 19 Academic Family Medicine clinics. In 2020, as our PBRN was expanding and because of the rapidly evolving Quebec Primary PC research landscape, we embarked on a strategic planning exercise. Objective: To better define the RRSPUM mission, vision and 5-year action plan.

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Facilitators and Barriers to Deferring Low-Value Imaging for Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Six virtual patient focus groups with a total of 30 patients and nine telephone physician interviews conducted in 2020. Physicians were active in clinical practice and several had expertise in either low-value care or patient-doctor communication.

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An Escape Fire for Healthcare

Noreta Family Medicine

Bill Skelton, founder of the Acupuncture Clinic here in Columbia, SC, gave me the film to watch and said he thought that as a Direct Primary Care physician and owner of Noreta Family Medicine, I would appreciate it. I ended up opening Noreta Family Medicine in 2020, a Direct Primary Care (DPC). minutes long. minutes long.