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Practice patterns of Ontario physicians working in 'boutique' medical clinics [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: Identify practice patterns of family physicians practicing within boutique clinics in Ontario. All fee-for-service physicians who billed at least 1 OHIP claim from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 and from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2023 under their clinic group codes were included. Study Design and Analysis.

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A Change of Mind on MOUD: Impact of Messages to Motivate Expanded Access to Buprenorphine in Primary Care Settings [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Expansion of medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) within primary care practices is often met with resistance. Motivation to overcome the many challenges is needed to meet the critical need for high quality, lifelong management of OUD, just as with any other chronic disease.

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

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Summary Transcript CME Summary Many older adults lose decision-making capacity during serious illnesses, and a significant percentage lack family or friends to assist with decisions. We’re going to be talking about the American Geriatric Society position statement on making medical treatment decisions. Yael 02:12 Thank you.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And we then did a bunch of work to develop medical criteria, to choose the right patients for hospital-at-home. Annals of Int Med. This is Eric Widera.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

In the medical odyssey that followed, she suffered double vision, chronic nausea, brain fog, and profound weakness. At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. Once a rock climber, she became a couch potato. The current U.S.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

He kept his diagnosis hidden from friends and family because he knew how people talked about HIV. They considered it a death sentence, a punishment for irresponsible behavior, or a disease that could infect them through a touch or a shared toilet seat — which it cannot. “We called ourselves the family of love,” he said.

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Not Only Harvard. RFK Jr.’s Slashed Science Funding Cuts Across States That Backed Trump

Physicians News Digest

We will leave no stone unturned in identifying the root causes of the chronic disease epidemic as part of our mission to Make America Healthy Again,” Hilliard said. Kennedy has said the NIH should take a years-long pause from funding infectious disease research. We classified these as hospitals/medical centers.