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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. Setting: An academic primary care clinic based in a hospital. Population: Ten resident physicians and six staff physicians.

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“The physician–patient encounter is health care’s choke point” -NEJM

A Country Doctor Writes

I thought of it the other day when I put together a presentation about Galileo’s way of interacting with patients. The drugs are better, but the way patients engage with doctors during office visits and hospital stays is unchanged. We meet people where they are and in many different ways.

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Patients with documented mental illness or substance use disorders (SUDs) continue to encounter a mixed—sometimes starkly divergent—quality of emergency department (ED) care when they present with chest pain, abdominal pain, or other non‑psychiatric complaints, according to a patient‑interview study published in Health Services Research.

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Episode 293 – Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 22 – Live from SGIM 2023: Best of Antiracism Research at the Society of General Internal Medicine’s 2023 Annual Meeting

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Calac June 22, 2023 Summary : This episode highlights a selection of antiracism research presentations at a live recording of the podcast at the 2023 SGIM Annual Meeting. Identify strategies to mitigate bias and stigma in the electronic health record as a trainee and medical practitioner.

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Presence of Cardiomyopathy in DLBCL Drives Treatment Decisions

Physician's Weekly

Upshaw, MD , and colleagues developed an anonymous electronic survey they emailed to 12 academic medical systems, three US lymphoma cooperative groups, and two community hospitals, and distributed at one international lymphoma meeting. 44% of respondents would order an echocardiogram only if heart failure signs or symptoms developed.

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Episode 125: Human Dx Unknown with Sharmin and & medical students, Vivek and Joshua – Diarrhea

The Clinical Problem Solvers

[link] Episode Description Dr. Joshua Inglis presents a Human Dx case to Sharmin , Vivek Nair and Joshua Morris. Joshua Inglis Dr Josh Inglis is an aspiring General Physician training at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. His academic interests include clinical reasoning, drug allergy and the electronic health record.

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Using technology to reclaim our time

Today's Hospitalist

OUR ENTIRE FIELD of hospital medicine grew out of the need to innovate to address the growing complexities of inpatient medicine. By removing the need to constantly look at a screen or type notes, we can be more present and engaged, fostering stronger therapeutic relationships and improving patient satisfaction. References: 1.