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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. MBC supports optimal clinical practice, demonstrates the value of integrated care teams, and improves outcomes. Read more about CFHA’s call for its widespread adoption across systems, settings, and stakeholders.

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Project ECHO Rheumatology - Rationale and Results from a Multi-Method Study to Capture Impact [Musculoskeletal and rheumatology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a virtually-delivered health professions education model, designed to improve patient care by enhancing primary care capacity in specialty topics. Clinicians from rural and Northern Ontario particularly benefited as access to specialists in their areas was sparse to none.

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A Novel Definition of Urinary Tract Infection across a National Primary Care Network [Geriatrics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective To develop and validate a novel electronic medical records (EMR)-based UTI case definition that can be applied to elucidate and understand UTI treatment and practice patterns in primary care. Context Misdiagnosis and over-diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) are a leading cause of inappropriate antimicrobial use.

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The ICH E6(R3) Guideline: A Major Update to Good Clinical Practice

FDA Law

Livornese As anticipated, the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) published the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) guideline E6(R3) Principles and Annex 1 on January 6, 2025. As stakeholders begin implementing R3, many questions remain regarding its practical application. By Julie Kim & Deborah L.

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Expert Panel Unveils Preanesthesia Cannabis Use Assessment Tool

Physician's Weekly

An expert panel unveiled a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia patient care. An expert panel has created a preoperative cannabis use assessment tool to aid healthcare professionals in planning informed, individualized anesthesia and analgesia care for patients.

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Standardizing Outcomes for Fecal Incontinence

Physician's Weekly

They followed COMET initiative guidelines and conducted the study in 3 phases: identifying outcomes through patient interviews and a systematic literature review, refining outcomes using 2 Delphi survey rounds, and finalizing the COS in a stakeholder consensus meeting.

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Heart Failure Pharmacology with Dr. Regan Wade

Louisville Lectures

After, Dr. Wade evaluates literature related to new therapies and indications for medications in patients with heart failure. Dr. Wade’s clinical practice interests are in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Anticoagulation, Transitions of Care, and Teaching and Precepting. Read more here.