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Reframing conceptualizations of opioid use disorder treatment in primary care [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

In countries like Canada and Australia, which have been experiencing high rates of opioid-related harms, there have been many calls to increase involvement of and improve OUD care in primary care. specialists, social workers), thus providing care continuity.

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8 Reasons Why Family Physicians are the Actual Stars of Medicine

Family Medicine Initiative

As a general practitioner and primary care researcher, it was always fascinating for me to delve into the scientific literature to investigate this issue. The following graph shows the striking difference in premature mortality between countries with weak or strong primary care: 2. Here are the key results.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

And again, if you were to go to, you know, AIDS in terms of transmission is primarily a sexually transmitted disease of young adults, which is why it presented the way it did in the pre treatment era, really all over the world. In San Francisco, HIV care was more specialized in that. The HIV clinics also served as primary care.