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Emergency Room vs. Urgent Care

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

When sudden illness or injury strikes, knowing whether to head to the emergency room or an urgent care clinic can make all the difference—both in terms of your health and your wallet. When To Go To the Emergency Room (ER) Emergency rooms are typically part of hospitals, and generally are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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Risk of Acute Rhinosinusitis Progression Based on Duration of Symptoms, Method of Care, and Setting of Care [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients were recruited from primary care practices, emergency rooms and urgent care centers, and the community (e.g., Setting & Population: Six practice-based research networks recruited patients aged 18-65 years with upper respiratory symptoms. recruitment flyers).

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Overall medication adherence as an indicator for health outcomes among elderly patients with hypertension and diabetes [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We determined personal adherence rates by calculating the mean adherence rates of the medications prescribed to each individual.

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Co-development of a public primary care occupational therapy and physical therapy telephone consultation service [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

emergency room visits, unnecessary medical consultations, imaging tests, medication). Objective: To co-develop a public telephone consultation service provided by occupational therapists and physiotherapists in Canada’s second most densely populated province, Québec.

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Screening for Dementia: A Podcast with Anna Chodos, Joseph Gaugler and Soo Borson

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Alex 00:20 And she’s professor of family medicine at USC, deputator at JAGS, and co lead of the bold center of Excellence in early detection of dementia. Alex 00:09 We are delighted to welcome S oo Borson, who is a primary care oriented geriatric psychiatrist. I think she’s the creator of the mini cog. Is that right, Soo?

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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death). Population: a 5% random sample of adult (19-64y) Quebec residents covered by the public drug insurance in 2014-2017 was used. Outcome measures: 1) yearly prevalence and incidence of exposure to at least one high-priority DDI.

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Understanding Poison Prevention Month

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

For example, when cleaning it’s important to know that bleach plus ammonia equals a trip to the emergency room. Talk to a doctor at Center for Family Medicine for more information about poison control. If an incident should occur, remember to contact emergency services, and know that we’re here to help with recovery.