article thumbnail

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. Studies in exclusively PHC settings exploring well-being and related positive outcomes (e.g.,

article thumbnail

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. Not all regulatory authorities authorize virtual prescribing of controlled substances.

Finance 130
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Validation of an Administrative Knee Osteoarthritis Severity Index in a Veterans Health Affairs Cohort [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

However, it is unclear whether results would generalize to other healthcare populations. Dataset: VHA-CDW data from 2007-2020. OASI is the sum number of care elements offered (NSAID fills, opioid fills, intra-articular injection, knee x-ray, knee advanced imaging, and physical therapy). Outcome Measures: Time to TKA.

Diagnosis 130
article thumbnail

From Surgeries To Keeping Company: The Place Of Robots In Healthcare

The Medical Futurist

Here’s our overview to understand robotics in healthcare better so that everyone can prepare for the appearance of mechanic helpers in medical facilities. For this reason, we collected here the most useful robots in healthcare. These new ‘colleagues’ will definitely make a difference in every field of medicine.

article thumbnail

Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. vital signs, bloodwork laboratory findings, and other physical test data) as a means of guiding care over time. 3, 5, 6) b.

article thumbnail

Evaluating Patient Experiences with a Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre in Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada [Mixed methods research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In March 2020, the Renfrew County Virtual Triage and Assessment Centre (VTAC) was launched as a large-scale, innovative, hybrid healthcare program. VTAC aims to provide timely and equitable access to care in a predominantly rural region facing deep-rooted healthcare challenges.

Patients 130
article thumbnail

Q&A: What Physicians Need to Know About Cold Drink Heart

Physician's Weekly

Dr Vinson: I introduced the phrase in a 2020 essay I published after our initial 2016 case report. We also found it surprising that more than one-third of our respondents noted that cold drinks were particularly likely to incite an AF episode during or following physical exertion. PW: Who coined the term “cold drink heart”?