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Electronic Health Record Use and Patient-Centredness [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Large-scale electronic health record (EHR) programs have reported a number of issues to their implementation in primary care including physician patient-centredness and clinical performance.

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A brief theory driven patient education video to reduce potentially harmful regular over-the-counter NSAID use [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To assess the effectiveness of a novel electronically delivered education video in reducing regular OTC NSAID use in high-risk patients (ie. Intervention/Instrument: Video-novel, 4-minute electronic education video addressing OTC NSAIDs. Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (RCT). video) and 4.2±3.5

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Implementation of a novel linkage of primary care electronic medical record data with hospital data in South Eastern Ontario [Big data]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: To link primary care electronic medical record (EMR) data with community and hospital data and to test the utility of the merged dataset through a targeted quality improvement (QI) intervention among high-risk patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

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Resident Voices: Key Findings from Journal Club Surveys [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Journal Club serves as an essential platform in medical education for enhancing critical thinking skills, promoting evidence-based practice, and fostering scholarly discussions among residents. Study Design and Analysis We conducted a retrospective survey distributed electronically and securely among the graduating class of residents.

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Transitional Care Management care team impact on no-show rates to hospital discharge appointments [Patient education/adherence]

Annals of Family Medicine

A referral order was created in the hospital system’s electronic health record to the "Hospital Discharge Clinic," and referrals were placed for urgent (7-day) or routine (14-day) TCM appointments. Referrals were not placed for patients being discharged to another facility or who already had an outside primary care provider.

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Pajama Time: The Association of EHR Documentation Time with Family Medicine Resident Outcomes [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Multiple studies have identified that working on the electronic health record (EHR) after clinic hours ("pajama time") is a source of burnout and decreasing professional satisfaction. No study has looked at its association with resident outcomes during training.

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A Multisite CFIR Study of Readiness to Implement Collaboration Oriented Approach to Controlling High Blood Pressure (COACH) [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting: Three academic health systems with EPIC and Oracle electronic health records. Intervention: COACH — a patient-facing decision support tool integrated into the electronic record. COACH was embraced for its relative advantage over traditional workflows and its potential to empower and educate patients.