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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Administrative activities, including work related to caring for individual patients and clinic administration, may play a substantial role in understanding changes to primary care workload. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment.

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Extended duration of use of long-acting reversible contraceptives: Systematic review

Canadian Family Physician

Data sources A systematic search of MEDLINE, Embase, and Global Health electronic databases. Prolonged use of LARCs might be beneficial for individuals requiring contraception especially those with disrupted access to social and health care services or living in more remote areas. Other adverse events were infrequent.

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

Permanente Medicine

Nguyen shared the multiple benefits of an AI ambient listening tool — recently rolled out nationally to more than 25,000 Permanente physicians — that transcribes office visits (with patient consent) that can be edited and added to electronic health records. I’m a family physician by training.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

WM: Like you, I’m a family physician. I think sometimes we don’t necessarily realize the importance in the role that each of us individually as physicians can have with patients both within the exam room but also globally. Dr. Marcos, tell us who you are and what you do.

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