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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

Results/Findings Information management is central to health care delivery, but often not valued or actively supported. Within primary care most administrative work requires both information management and clinical judgment. Qualitative interpretation and analysis involved representatives from each stakeholder group.

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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,". Outcome measures: Perspectives and experiences from unattached patients on the utility of the CWL. In 2019, 14.5% of Canadians (approximately 4.6 Comparisons between CWLs within the three provinces were made.

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

GeriPal

Meg is a researcher and professor of Gerontological Nursing and a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in the School of Nursing at UCSF. Association of Sensory and Cognitive Impairment With Healthcare Utilization and Cost in Older Adults. My own work focuses on hospitalization and health utilization over time.

IT 102
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RCT of Palliative Care for Heart Failure and Lung Disease: David Bekelman and Lyndsay DeGroot

GeriPal

It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. However, its main predictors are age, comorbidity, and healthcare utilization. And then, you chose for the intervention to include a nurse and a social worker. David: Yeah.

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

GeriPal

Connie 13:10 So generally what, what I see, very rural, is a nurse practitioner that’s out of our local home health and hospice agency that is palliative care certified. Do they need a palliative care doctor, nurse practitioner? Like, yeah, utilization of hospice has increased pretty well.

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Improving Nursing Home Quality: Jasmine Travers, Alice Bonner, Isaac Longobardi, and Mike Wasserman

GeriPal

It’s also what are the pieces of information we’re bringing to the table when we start providing care for residents? Those are evidence-based or evidence-informed tools that have been in practice. We might evaluate that in a small number of nursing homes and go from there. So, it’s a building problem.

Finance 95
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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. The emergency physician knows it’s not new information. That’s not news to us. No difference.