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Celebrating Ten Years of ECHO Ontario Chronic Pain and Opioid Stewardship [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) is a health professions education model that uses telehealth technology to bridge specialists to community clinicians to disseminate best practices and foster interprofessional collaboration.

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Disaster preparedness, What we have learned from COVID 19 pandemic [COVID-19]

Annals of Family Medicine

Study design and analysis: Descriptive statistics were used in SPSS to present demographics and responses and Chi-squared tests evaluated relationships between demographics and attitudes. During the pandemic, 62% (n=21) used telehealth tools, including 50% (n=17) by telephone, 50% (n=17) via live video, and 24% (n=8) through text messaging.

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Clinician and Staff Experiences with Approaches to Induction of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder in Primary Care Practices [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

HOMER is a pragmatic comparative effectiveness trial led by the State Networks of Colorado Ambulatory Practices & Partners (SNOCAP) in partnership with the AAFP National Research Network (NRN) staff team at DARTNet Institute comparing 9-month treatment outcomes across home, office, and telehealth induction with buprenorphine.

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Development and external validation of the FluScoreVax risk score for influenza that incorporates vaccine status (EAST-PC) [Acute respiratory infections]

Annals of Family Medicine

Setting or Dataset: Adults presenting to the outpatient setting in 12 European countries during flu season with a chief complaint of acute cough between 2007 and 2010 were used to derive and internally validate the risk score (GRACE data). in the external validation. Calibration was excellent.

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HP&M’s Jeff Shapiro and Serra Schlanger to Present on Advertising and Promotion

FDA Law Blog

is pleased to announce that Jeffrey Shapiro and Serra Schlanger will present at this year’s Food and Drug Law Institute virtual Advertising and Promotion for Medical Products Conference on October 13–15. Hyman, Phelps & McNamara, P.C. We can offer our readers a discount of 15% off registration using code AP15.

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Supporting Healthy Aging With Tailored Obesity Management Strategies

Physician's Weekly

If low bone density is present, it’s often treated alongside a weight loss program. In the past several years, telehealth has opened tremendous opportunities to improve access to care. These recommendations are ideals, and some participants may require workarounds.

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The “End of the COVID-19 Emergency and the Ryan Haight Act: Telemedicine and Next Steps” – Availability of HPM’s Presentation Deck and Recording of the Presentation

FDA Law Blog

As promised during the 90-minute program, we provide our slides here, and a recording of the program, here (passcode.