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Exploring Iron Deficiency in Alberta: Following up on Clinical Observations [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Iron deficiency (ID) is a common and preventable micronutrient deficiency, affecting cognitive development, immune function, and well-being of individuals, and leading to substantial health care costs. Population/Participants: Cohort of 94,264 individuals aged six and older residing in Alberta. 2020-2022). 2020-2022).

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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Little is known about how patients’ social needs (i.e. Objective To understand how patient-reported social needs are associated with cervical cancer screening in a fully insured population. Patient-reported social needs were obtained from a nationally administered survey. housing insecurity) affect screening behaviors.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC entails equal emphasis on the phases of Collect, Share, and Act , which include repeated data gathering, communication/review of the data with the patient and team, and adjusting treatment based on this information. (2) MBC enhances therapeutic alliance and improves culturally informed care to diverse patient groups. (10,

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Racial Differences Affect Breast Surgery Timing

Physician's Weekly

They investigated data from electronic health records of women diagnosed with stage I–III breast cancer between 2004 and 2020 who underwent upfront surgery. The results showed that among 18,240 patients (White = 61%, Black = 39%), the median distance to surgery was 11.4 miles (IQR: 5.9,

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A Long Time Coming: DEA Regs Finally Authorize Schedule II Prescription Partial Fills

FDA Law Blog

CARA amended the Controlled Substances Act (“CSA”) to enable physicians or patients to request pharmacists to partially fill prescriptions for schedule II substances including opioids and to allow remaining quantities to be filled up to 30 days after issuance of the prescription (up to 72 hours for emergency oral prescriptions). 21 U.S.C. §

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MyChart Messages the Wild West of Patient Communication

33 Charts

More recently health professionals have seen a rise in MyChart messages coming in through the Epic patient portal. According to Epic, the number of patient messages spiked 151 percent nationally from the period covering the first 11 weeks of 2020 through the end of the year. And individual practice styles are fine.

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Insights into the design, development and implementation of a novel digital health tool for skilled birth attendants to support quality maternity care in Kenya

BMJ

doi: 10.1136/fmch-2020-000845 The appetite for and ability to collect accurate digital patient-level data in low-resource settings has fueled numerous massive global health initiatives. The answer to that question can often be found in an assessment of where those big numbers originate.