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A Mixed Studies Literature Review on Mental Health Perceived Needs of Family Physicians in Infectious Catastrophes [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

exert significant pressure on physicians as they are the frontlines of response. Family physicians' pivotal role in prevention and crisis management exposes them to mental stressors due to the highly demanding circumstances. This can potentially compromise their ability to provide optimal patient care. pandemic, etc.)

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Factors associated with patients' experience of access to their primary health care clinic: a multilevel analysis [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Understanding patients’ experience accessing primary health care (PHC) is necessary in order to move toward better service organization and more equitable PHC access. A total of 122,397 patients and 999 family physicians, 107 nurse practitioners and 411 administrative staff nested into 104 clinics answered the survey.

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Important Outcomes for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: The Patients Perspective [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Patient Important Outcomes (PIOs) was first introduced in the literature with the criticism that research studies were designed with outcomes relevant to health care providers, but not relevant/important to patients. Study Design & Analysis: Mixed methods study employing physician survey and patient focus groups.

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Family physicians perspectives on advising patients on an obstetric delivery location: Study from a remote community

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To determine what factors individual physicians in a remote northern Saskatchewan community consider when advising patients on an obstetric delivery location. Participants Eleven family physicians providing full-scope care in a remote medical clinic. Design Semistructured interviews.

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How early-career family physicians integrate social accountability into practice: Findings from a multijurisdictional qualitative study

Canadian Family Physician

Objective To explore how early-career family physicians integrated social accountability into their practices, how it shaped their practice choices, and the challenges they encountered. Participants Early-career family physicians. Design A secondary analysis of qualitative interview data.

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To Be a Professional: How Family Physicians Interpret and Encounter Professionalism [Qualitative research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This qualitative research explored how family physicians understand what professionalism means, how it is enacted in their day-to-day practice, and to identify challenges to professionalism. Results: Participants conceptualized professionalism as individualized and highly focused on patient care.

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Perspectives of family physician educators on implementing shared decision making for preventive health care [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To explore the views of family physician educators about the implementation of SDM in clinical practice, with a focus on the delivery of preventive health care. Study Design and Analysis: Qualitative descriptive study using a practical thematic analysis of data from individual online interviews.