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Planning scale-up of integrated care programs for people with complex needs: a multiple case study [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: 1) implement an ICP for adults with complex needs in health and social services organizations and primary care clinics; 2) evaluate organizational and governance factors influencing implementation; and 3) make recommendations from key stakeholders to facilitate scale-up. Study Design: A qualitative multiple-case study design.

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A family physician's response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade

Vida Family Medicine

Wade guaranteed was not just the right of a woman to terminate her pregnancy, but the right of a patient and their physician to consider these four pillars privately and come to a decision together without government interference. The last few years have been extremely medically and ethically challenging due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Advanced Pain Management in Cancer: Janet Abrahm

GeriPal

Eric: You got this depot in the high layer, so absorption is really governed by the microcirculation to that stratum corneum and skin… Alex: We’re going deep here – Eric said “stratum corneum. My grandmother had a family physician who used hypnosis with her. I had methadone also.