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Facilitating Well-Being in Primary Healthcare During COVID-19: A Rapid Systematic Review [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: The COVID-19 pandemic increased critical levels of turnover of healthcare workers in interdisciplinary primary healthcare (PHC) teams, including family physicians, nurses, social workers, and others. resilience) for fully licensed providers were included.

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Patient experience with Social Prescribing Program in Ontario, Canada [Social determinants and vulnerable populations]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Social Prescribing (SP) is an approach to help individuals address their health and social needs wherein a healthcare practitioner refers patients to non-clinal services in the community. Models of SP vary, and the experience of patients across these models is less known. ARC: All (N=17) participants used navigation.

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Innovations in providing and accessing preventative primary care for young children during COVID-19 [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Research has shown that in some locations, primary care services were able to resume and recover to pre-pandemic visit rates for patients < 6 years old shortly after the initial lockdown in March/April 2020. Data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Setting: Ontario and Quebec, Canada.

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An Evaluation of Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Incidence, Treatment, and Guideline Adherence in an Ambulatory Healthcare System [Infectious diseases (not respiratory tract)]

Annals of Family Medicine

In 2020 and 2021, CDC guidelines changed recommended treatment for both GC and CT. Population Studied: Individuals with gonorrhea and chlamydia positive tests. Objective: This study evaluates incidence of CT and GC, treatment associated outcomes, and adherence to guideline changes. in an urgent care setting.

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"Survival Mode": Experiences of moral distress in Canadian primary care professionals during and after the COVID-19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This project explored the presence, nature, and effects of moral distress in Canadian primary healthcare professionals from two provinces during (March 2020-May 2023) and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Intervention/Instrument: Individual semi-structured interviews and review of pertinent case-relevant documents.

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Episode 282: Anti-Racism in Medicine Series – Episode 20 – Medical Racism and Indigenous Peoples

The Clinical Problem Solvers

The dehumanization of individuals of color at the margins of society by the healthcare system is not simply a thing of the past, and is certainly a persistent phenomenon. Cindy Gladue, Brian Sinclair, and Joyce Echaquan are three Indigenous individuals who suffered immense harm at the hands of the healthcare system.

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COVID At-Home Antigen Tests: If at First You Don’t Succeed Try, Try and Try Again

FDA Law

After two negative tests, you should consider a molecular test, or call your healthcare provider. If the third test is negative, you should test again with an antigen test, or get a laboratory molecular-based test, or call your healthcare provider. See our previous post on the topic here.)