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Predicting Likelihood of Missed Appointments in Primary Care [Health care informatics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Despite efforts to improve patient-clinician relationships, access to care, and healthcare workflows, annual rates of missed appointments (MA) in the U.S Objective To evaluate the association between patient, health system, geosocial, and environmental factors on the likelihood of MA in Family Medicine clinics.

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Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design and Analysis: A participatory approach to cross-sectional surveys was facilitated through the building and nurturing of relationships based on trust and transparency with all members of the research team. Descriptive and inferential statistics were undertaken. Setting: Primary care clinics across Saskatchewan.

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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). While it is being increasingly used in applied health research, it is relatively underutilised in family medicine.

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Improving comprehensive primary care training and practice through an interprofessional collaborative table [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Intervention: The IPCT was established to sustain collaborative relationships and intentionally create space for projects across different disciplines within TPC to connect, share, and collaborate with one another. Journey maps are a visual illustration of a user’s experience of sequential events overtime.

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How Your Emotional Health Impacts Blood Pressure

Imperial Center Family Medicine

Being aware of this intricate relationship is the first step to learning to control your emotions to improve heart health. Studies associate the two hours after an episode of rage with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events. The mind-body connection has surprising implications for blood pressure management.

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Our Anxiety Epidemic: How to Stop Fearing the Future

Priority Physicians

It may affect your performance and relationships. In fact, for people who’ve experienced terrifying or anxiety-inducing events, therapists apply eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, or EMDR, a technique that mimics the patient’s REM-sleep eye movements, allowing them to “relive” and discuss the incident with decreased anxiety.)

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

In addition, Dr. Nguyen co-chairs the SCPMG Virtual Medical Center and brings extensive expertise as a practicing family medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente. Khang Nguyen (22:39): I think there are a couple of dimensions I can think about, and the notion of returning the humanity to medicine is really important.