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Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? [Economic or policy analysis]

Annals of Family Medicine

Medical Manpower Indicators: Are policymakers using poor surrogate indicators of access to Family Doctor services ? In 2012, the Quebec Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) reported that the population of Montreal consumed the services of 1,663 family doctors (FTE consumed).

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Perspectives of family physician educators on implementing shared decision making for preventive health care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Shared decision making (SDM) is often underutilised in clinical practice. However, we know little about the views on implementing SDM in practice from the perspective of those who supervise and educate residents. Population: We interviewed family physician educators based at three teaching units in Montreal.

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Building a collaborative translational research platform: barriers and enablers from basic research to primary health care [Clinical research (other)]

Annals of Family Medicine

The capacity to translate basic research discoveries to clinical application and to synthesize, disseminate, and integrate clinical research results into health care decision-making and clinical practice remain challenging.

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Lung cancer screening in primary care: more pragmatic research needed

Common Sense Family Doctor

Barriers to implementing findings from lung cancer screening trials into typical clinical practice include the nonrepresentative nature of research participants (younger, healthier, and less racially and geographically diverse than the target populations) and the superior infrastructure and clinical support available to them.