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Levers and challenges to recruiting clinical settings for a shared decision-making stepped wedge cluster randomized trial [Dissemination and implementation research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and analysis: For a SWcRT aiming at scaling up SDM for prenatal screening of trisomy in Quebec, descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative thematic analysis were performed to have recruitment insights. Setting and dataset: From Quebec government websites, we compiled a list of sites potentially offering prenatal services.

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Community Integration: Pushing the Boundaries for a Better World

Integrated Care News by CFHA

Omolara Thomas offered the following recommendations to advocate for the communities we serve: Engage patients in non-targeted ways, asking the same questions to all patients, to gauge how government policies are impacting them. For more ideas, you can access the resources developed by Alma , CFHA’s chatbot.

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Outcomes of Guidelines from Health Technology Assessment Organizations: A Systematic Mixed Studies Review [Systematic review, meta-analysis, or scoping review]

Annals of Family Medicine

HTA organizations are generally funded by governments, they guide health care professionals and decision/policy-makers, and they publish knowledge translation products such as guidelines. The full-text screening started with 345 studies and resulted in 120 included observational studies (21 qualitative, 94 quantitative, and 5 mixed methods).

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New Report: U.S. Primary Care System Crumbling Amid Historic Disinvestment and Surge in Chronic Diseases

The Physicians Foundation

“Health systems and payers are asking primary care physicians to take on more — manage multiple complex conditions, answer patient emails, handle insurance administration, and provide mental health and social needs screenings,” said Christopher F. Koller, President of the Milbank Memorial Fund. As the U.S.

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Update on CDER, CBER, and CDRH Meetings with Industry

FDA Law Blog

The pandemic also deeply impacted how industry and the government conduct their operations. A teleconference will be conducted by voice only with no projection of presentations or use of video/camera; a videoconference would involve sharing a screen so that a presentation can be viewed by all participants and/or involve the use of video.

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Podcast: AI, innovation, and value-based care in medicine

Permanente Medicine

There will be clinician that uses AI to help out their practice, and there will be one that won’t basically, and that is the one that that will really be struggling to search through the database, looking for stuff that perhaps the AI can offload and allow them to actually truly practice meaningful relationship-based medicine.

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

I initially got into it because I was really looking at the psychophysiology of stress, and so how stress affects our health and how relationships were always a component of that. But then recognizing that our relationships impact our health even outside the context of stress. Like I said, the patient screened positive for it.

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