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Comparing impact of a holistic patient centered navigation model to an online navigation service on health care utilization [Population health and epidemiology]

Annals of Family Medicine

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. The odds ratio (95 CI) of ARC relative to 211 for ER visits was 0.7 (0.3, However, very few randomized controlled trials have been conducted and have not assessed HCU.

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Need to See a Doctor Fast? Here’s How Urgent Care Could Save Your Day

Plum Health

These are the moments when you don’t have time to wait for an appointment with your primary care doctor, and the emergency room (ER) seems like overkill. They’re like a hybrid between a primary care clinic and the ER—open late, available on weekends, and usually accepting walk-ins. No long waits like you’d experience in an ER.

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Underneath

StorytellERdoc

Walking into Room 33, my next patient, who had come to the ER complaining of cough and cold symptoms, seemed just as I had expected. What can I do to help you in our ER today?" Rereading it, I found it filled with new perspective from when I originally wrote it just three short years ago. I hope you, too, find new meaning in old words.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

Distributing intake throughout the day has been shown to enhance muscle synthesis, and targeting 90 g/day provides 1.2 The second piece is getting folks to be successful at restricting their calories, which works well when nutrition education and behavioral counseling strategies are combined—and even better when provided in a group setting.

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Lecturer Hall of Fame

Louisville Lectures

our top 5 Lectur ers of all time! They have provided high quality lectures necessary for our #FOAMed community. For more information, see our citation page. Louisville Lectures presents. These lecturers were selected based on their approximate overall views on YouTube. Disclaimers ©2015 LouisvilleLectures.org

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How to choose the best college for MD Pediatrics?

Tiny Physician

These kinds of small but necessary information may not be available in all textbooks and similar discussions during rounds will be remembered more than what you read from Nelson. The more you see patients at the OP department/ ER, the easier it will be for you to identify sick children who needs immediate care.

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The Most Engaging Decision You’ll Read All Year – Five Stars

FDA Law Blog

Let’s just say, the smackdown—er, decision—eviscerates FDA’s approach to regulating flavored e-cigarettes. Youth behavioral data was not specifically required but FDA encouraged such information. But they did not submit information specific to flavored products. In Wages and White Lion Investments (DBA Triton Distribution) v.