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

Annals of Family Medicine

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. Boutique clinics were more likely to see patients for musculoskeletal, dermatologic, and infectious disease illnesses.

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Substance Use Disorder Screening in Adolescent Patients in Primary Care: Findings, Challenges, Lessons Learned [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study period for urban locations: Oct 2–Dec 29, 2023; for the rural location: Nov 1, 2023–Jan 31, 2024. For patients screened positive, chart reviews were conducted and the number of referrals to SUD Clinic was tracked. The lack of SUD Clinic referral suggests that having specialty support alone may not suffice.

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Chronic disease management among people with serious mental illness across rural, small urban, and metropolitan settings [Health care disparities]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: People with serious mental illness (SMI) are at increased risk of complications and earlier death from comorbid chronic diseases, compared with patients without mental illness. Referral to and/or visit with an ophthalmologist was most common in metropolitan settings, with similarly lower values in small urban and rural.

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Beyond the Diagnosis: A Detailed Characterization of Outpatient Palliative Care Patients [Palliative and end-of-life care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Palliative medicine focuses on quality of life for patients with serious illnesses. Study Design Retrospective chart review of patients seen in a palliative care clinic between June 2023 and August 2023. Population Studied 30 adult patients actively receiving care from the SMC between June 2023 and August 2023.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

GeriPal

link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. So we did a podcast on aging and homelessness with Margot Kushel in 2023. So we’re going to be today talking about serious illness palliative care in the homelessness population. People with.

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RCT of Chaplaincy: Lexy Torke, Karen Steinhauser, LaVera Crawley

GeriPal

Alex Practice-PC Program Information: UCSF’s Practice-PC program is now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 year. And so following that stream, sort of some of the most recent work was funded by the VA, first of all to develop a measure of spirituality for those in serious illness. Eric: I want to be mindful of the time.

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Telemedicine in a Post-Pandemic World: Joe Rotella, Brooke Calton, Carly Zapata

GeriPal

See the AAHPM Legislative Action Center [link] Write to the DEA, with guidance from AAHPM’s comments to the DEA March 2023. So we’re going to be talking about telemedicine, telehealth for people with serious illness. Now is the time to act, dear listeners! Start with a story as Carly did in her Op Ed. Stories trump data.