Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

of Canadians were at greater risk of chronic diseases due to their BMI, including type 2 diabetes, atherosclerosis, and hypertension. Setting The North of Lanaudière University Family Medicine Group (U-FMG) Intervention Upon referral from their family doctor, patients attend a group course on nutrition and metabolic health.

DO 130

DO Family Medicine Nurse Practitioner Family 130

Vascular Physician

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

1, 3) Primary care providers should consider referral to a vascular specialist when the severity of symptoms become lifestyle debilitat-ing or progress to critical limb ischemia (CLI), which is defined as the presentation of rest pain, non-healing wounds, or gangrene. (1,

Referral 40

Referral Hypertension Primary Care Utilities 40

GeriPal

JANUARY 18, 2024

We start off the conversation by talking about whether patients with cancer and cancer pain are really that different, and their paper that was just published on January 11 th in JAMA Oncology showing that substance use disorder is not uncommon in individuals with cancer. Jessie: Exactly. Eric: Which brings us to an article. Katie: Yeah.

Illness 136

Illness Patient-Centered Screening Clinic 136

GeriPal

OCTOBER 17, 2024

We talk about what is heart failure, particularly HFpEF, how we treat it (including the use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2’s), and how we should apply guidelines to individual patients, especially those with multimorbidity who are taking a lot of other medications. But we’re not perfect individuals.

Primary Care 113

Primary Care Patient-Centered IT Patients 113

Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Adherence to medical advice improves and unnecessary self-referrals to other doctors decrease. 22 Family physicians are the sole care providers for 86% of hypertensive patients and for 71% of diabetics (based on 2.7 Over time, more trust develops. Over time, communication improves. million Canadian patients).

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130