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Exploring Primary Care Provider eConsult Utilization Trends [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

It includes templated eConsult exchange data extracted from the electronic health record. Intervention/Instrument: eConsult platform and electronic health record. Study Design and Analysis: This retrospective analysis of program data spans from 2018 through 2023. Setting or Dataset: CUSOM and University Hospital.

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Profiling patterns of patient experiences of access to care and continuity at team-based primary healthcare clinics [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting/Dataset: 121,570 registered patients over 18 years of age with an email address available in their electronic medical record. Setting: 104 PHC clinics across Quebec, Canada. Measures: The optimal number of profiles (four) was determined using LCA measures (best model determined by AIC, BIC, and entropy).

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Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Objective: We assessed adoption, impact on time spent in orders, and clinician perceptions of a comprehensive set of nested order panels (xOrders) for adult primary care.

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Access to health care and services for the Deaf: A scoping review of reviews [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Reviews were identified through a search of scientific electronic databases: MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, AMED, Healthcare Administration Database, ABI/INFORM Collection, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Epistemonikos, and Scopus. 2010) and adapted by Schultz et al.

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Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on primary care for diabetes in Canada: Results from a mixed-methods study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting & Dataset: The CPCSSN database contains de-identified patient-level electronic medical record data from 13 primary care research networks across Canada. 2) Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand patient experiences with navigating diabetes care during the pandemic and analyzed using qualitative description.

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Be The Market: How Doctors Should Invest Their Money

The Motivated MD

As I continue onward in my journey writing a physician finance guide one chapter at a time, I wanted to tackle investing. Add in the complexities of family life, child-rearing, and pursuing any interest outside of your career, and much of your time is spoken for. This will come as no surprise to most healthcare workers.

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Choosing to Rent or Buy a Home in 2025

The Motivated MD

This marks the 10th chapter of our Doctor Money finance series, which I hope to complete and formally turn into a publishable book or e-book in the not-too-distant future. This week, we will tackle choosing to rent or buy a home in 2025. Stay tuned!

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