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Nested order panels for primary care medication and laboratory orders: adoption and impact on ordering efficiency [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Population Study: Primary care clinicians including MD/DO and advanced practice providers (i.e., nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

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Patient experiences using primary care wait lists in Canada: A qualitative study [Health care services, delivery, and financing]

Annals of Family Medicine

Patients without a regular primary care provider (a family physician or nurse practitioner) are considered "unattached,". million people aged 12 and older) were unattached to a regular primary care provider. Outcome measures: Perspectives and experiences from unattached patients on the utility of the CWL.

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Using a typology to understand and address primary care administrative workload in Atlantic Canada [Practice management and organization]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting and Population Studied Interviewees were primary care providers and administrative staff representing a range of payment models, a variety of clinic models, from both urban and rural locations in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Intervention Thirty-six (36) interviews were conducted by one qualitative researcher.

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Hearing Loss in Geriatrics and Palliative Care: A Podcast with Nick Reed and Meg Wallhagen

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Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. COVID-19, masks, and hearing difficulty: Perspectives of healthcare providers. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults.

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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Implementing Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Podcast wtih Connie Cole, Kathleen Unroe, and Cari Levy

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Kathleen 03:47 I think any of us who’ve spent any time in nursing homes have spent time working in a nursing home setting, have visited, had family members in nursing homes and looked around and seen the population there. Not just pain, but symptom management, then for people that are in a nursing home and that.

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Buprenorphine Use in Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Zachary Sager and Janet Ho

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Our experts include Katie Fitzgerald Jones (palliative nurse practitioner and doctoral student at Boston College), Zachary Sager (palliative care physician at the Boston VA and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute), and Janet Ho (physician at UCSF in addiction medicine and palliative care). Learn about using the low dose buprenorphine patch:

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