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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

Context: The Réseau de recherche en soins primaires de l’ Université de Montréal (RRSPUM) is the Primary Care (PC) Practice-Based Research Network (PBRN) affiliated with the Department of Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DFMEM) of our University (Quebec, Canada). RRSPUM includes 19 Academic Family Medicine clinics.

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Episode 384: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 26 – Racial and Gender Health Disparities in Youth Suicide: Part 1

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.  2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905.

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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.  2020 Nov 12;383(20):1904-1905.

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PhRMA Code Revised in Response to OIG Special Fraud Alert on Speaker Programs

FDA Law

These revisions appear to be responsive to a November 16, 2020 Special Fraud Alert issued by the Office of Inspector General at the U.S. not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee). not friends, significant others, or family members of a speaker or invitee).

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You don’t need labs or CT scans in children who have recovered after a simple febrile or first time seizure

PEMBlog

Team members and families eagerly await your intervention to halt the seizure and understand its underlying cause. ” Explaining this to families is paramount – sometimes your exam is a test. This includes scarring abnormalities, bleeds, and tumors. 2000; 55(5):616-623.

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Diabetes in Late Life: Nadine Carter, Tamryn Gray, Alex Lee

GeriPal

When I’m on palliative care consults and attending in our hospice unit we have to counsel patients about deprescribing and de-intensifying diabetes medications. What is the role of the family caregiver system, how they play a role? We don’t need to check sugars all the time,” that also is a shock for patients and families.

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Nurse Practitioners Critical in Treating Older Adults as Ranks of Geriatricians Shrink

Physician's Weekly

On a gloomy Friday in January, Johnson, a nurse practitioner who treats older adults, had a hospice consult with Ellen, a patient in her 90s in declining health. She enjoyed talking with the half dozen other residents at her adult family home in Washington state. “Hello. How are you feeling?”