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Optimizing participation in the OECD PaRIS Project: Lessons learned in Saskatchewan [Survey research or cross-sectional study]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Leading the OECD PaRIS Project in Saskatchewan (SK) was an integrated primary care collaborative team consisting of primary care providers (PCPs), people with lived experience (PWLE) aka patients, health system partners and researchers. Instrument: Survey developed and approved by the OECD-PaRIS Working Group.

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CDC Proposes Updating Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids, Warning Against Continued Misapplication

FDA Law Blog

Houck — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) issued a voluntary practice guideline on opioid prescribing for clinicians treating chronic pain five years ago. (We We believe the proposed 2022 guideline provides much needed clarification of CDC’s recommendations for both practitioners and regulators.

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MAFP Supports Two Student Programs This Summer!

Maine Academy of Family Physicians

Der Simonian at the Falmouth Family Medicine office and at the Maine Medical Center Mother Baby Unit. I observed multiple fascinating procedures and patient interactions throughout the externship, and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to glimpse the day-to-day of this field.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

It was designed to really balance what Medicaid at the time was to provide nursing homes and Medicare is obviously health insurance. The long-term care is being actually provided in the community at a much higher rate than what the formal system provides. But, what you need is a community-based game there.

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Jumpstarting Goals of Care Convos: Erin Kross, Bob Lee, and Ruth Engelberg

GeriPal

On that podcast he and collaborators tested a combined patient and clinician facing communication priming intervention to promote goals of care conversations. Alex: And Ruth Engelberg, who is an esteemed palliative care and palliative care researcher also at the University of Washington and can be a palliative care center of excellence.

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How to identify a victim of heat exhaustion or heat stroke

Medical Xpress

Enzymes provide the body with instructions for what it needs to do, and when people lose energy and water, biochemical systems in the body start to fail, Wood says. The temperature is just going to continue to rise and at some point thats going to lead to death," says Wood, who has worked as a nurse practitioner in the emergency room.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

In order to heal her patients she first had to heal her ailing profession. And this is a medical system that needs to be disrupted because our medical system (as you know) is endangering the lives of patients right now—and physicians. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Born into a family of physicians who warned her not to pursue medicine.

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