Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Population Primary care providers in 12 Ottawa and Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) practices referred their patients with health or social needs to access needed SP services. Dataset Of the 326 enrolled patients, 150 consented and had their data successfully linked to health administrative data housed at ICES (ARC=83, Ontario-211: 67).

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Patient-Centered Utilities ER Patients 130

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Continuity of care between a patient and their primary care practitioner (PCP) is a cornerstone of primary care (PC) and is associated with many positive health outcomes including decreased utilization of ER services and lower costs for some populations. Patients were attributed to the PCPs with whom they had the most visits.

PCP 130

PCP PCP ER Utilities 130

Center for Family Medicine (CFM)

JULY 1, 2025

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. Ambulances with emergency responders will take patients to emergency rooms. Unfortunately, ERs are often understaffed with many people waiting to be seen, leading to long wait times.

Emergency Room 52

Emergency Room ER DO Family Medicine 52

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019. The mean age was 81.2

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical 130

GeriPal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

We talked with Thor Ringler, who helped found the My Life My Story Project at the VA and beyond, and Heather Coats about the evidence base for capturing patient stories. Because we all interface with it at the end of the day as patients. Today’s podcast is both similar and different. Eric 00:18 Throwing us off. Ricky 11:23 Yeah.

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IT Community Patients Family 107