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Vaccine Uptake Strategies & Ethical Considerations- Part II

Integrated Care News by CFHA

WHO grouped these determinants into contextual, individual, and group influences and vaccine/vaccination-specific issues. Vaccine hesitancy is the delay in accepting or refusing vaccination despite the availability of vaccination services. Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires tailored, evidence-based strategies to address the causes.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

The full process of MBC (Collect, Share, and Act) supports a shared decision-making framework that is inherently therapeutic, with the aim of improving treatment outcomes as well as promoting the overall wellness of individuals and populations. (2, MBC is much more than simply administering behavioral health measures. 1, 8, 9) d.

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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. Study design: Deductive qualitative analysis. Population Studied: Primary care team members involved in high blood pressure management.

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Exploring Iron Deficiency in Alberta: Following up on Clinical Observations [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Iron deficiency (ID) is a common and preventable micronutrient deficiency, affecting cognitive development, immune function, and well-being of individuals, and leading to substantial health care costs. Population/Participants: Cohort of 94,264 individuals aged six and older residing in Alberta.

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Understanding the Relationship Between Social Needs and Cervical Cancer Screening [Screening, prevention, and health promotion]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study Design Cross-sectional study combining patients’ screening data from the electronic health record (EHR) with self-reported social needs. Patients with individual insurance (not through employment) were less likely to be screened (66% in individual payers, 82% commercial, 84% Medicaid, p-value 0.011).

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Patient and Caregiver Use of Patient Portal Features [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patient portals (PPs) are online healthcare platforms enabling patients access their electronic health records and offering different features to help patients manage their care such as viewing and entering health information, and permitting asynchronous communication between patients and their providers.

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The Perfect Office Note? SOAP, APSO or aSOAP?

A Country Doctor Writes

Electronic medical record notes are simply way too cumbersome, no matter in what order the segments are displayed, to be of much use if we quickly want to check what happened in the last few office visits before entering the exam room. A Country Doctor Writes: is a reader-supported publication. We need something better – aSOAP !