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Super-utilization interventions - failing or evolving in complex systems? A scoping literature review [Complexity science]

Annals of Family Medicine

Introduction: Super-utilization (frequent acute hospital care use or frequent emergency department (ED) utilization and readmissions) describes high rates of emergency department visits and hospital admissions by some individuals. Articles were intentionally chosen to illustrate primary themes.

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Vending machines for harm reduction and community health: a systematic review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: In response to the growing overdose epidemic, communities in US and Canada have started using vending machines (VMs) as a low-barrier method to provide harm reduction (HR) items to the community. HR organizations were also contacted to share relevant articles on HR-based VMs.

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Introducing longitudinal qualitative research to family medicine community

BMJ

Value, challenges and practical considerations when designing, conducting and analysing a longitudinal qualitative study in family medicine | Family Medicine and Community Health (bmj.com). It can provide insights into the nature, causes and consequences of change as well as identifying continuity, stability and lack of change.

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Q&A: Prioritizing Early Intervention in Pediatric Obesity

Physician's Weekly

In the article, the researchers note that a minimum of 26 contact hours with the family is required for optimal prevention. When a child has risk factors but has not developed the disease, we must continue to provide preventive care and support for the family and appropriately match intensity and dose of the intervention.

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Golden Years, Digital Gears: Digital Health For Aging Populations

The Medical Futurist

Aging in place is considered the ability to live in one’s home and community safely, independently, and comfortably, regardless of age, income or ability level” – this U.S. They started their work with a whopping 1,924 articles to analyse the current state of digital health literacy of the elderly.

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Primary care for all Americans

Common Sense Family Doctor

" The Gilded Age of Medicine is Here ," announced the title of a recent New Yorker article about the tactics of private equity firms that provide infusions of cash to struggling hospitals in order to extract hundreds of millions of dollars in profits by slashing costs to the bone and endangering the health of patients.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

In an article for Obesity , researchers investigated how to better design lifestyle-based weight loss programs for older adults in order to address muscle and bone health concerns. Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 This might look like 3.5