Wintemute, Kimberly Noor, Meh Bhatt, Aashka Bloch, Gary Arackal, Suja Kalia, Sumeet Aliarzadeh, Babak La Tona, Sabrina Lo, Joyce Pinto, Andrew D.
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BMC Family Practice
Background Poverty has a significant influence on health. Efforts to optimize income and reduce poverty could make a difference to the lives of patients and their families. Routine screening for poverty in primary care is an important first step but rarely occurs in Canada. We aimed to implement a targeted screening and referral process in a large,...
Dick, Smita Crabb, Ryen McFaul, Claire MacRae, Clare Wilson, Philip Turner, Steve
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BMC Health Services Research
Background Factors contributing to decisions to refer children for scheduled appointments at medical paediatric outpatient clinics are not well understood. Our aim was to describe practice-level characteristics associated with referrals to general paediatric clinics. Methods In this cross-sectional study the setting was general practices in three h...
Preston, Kate Weir, Natalie M. Mueller, Tanja Newham, Rosemary Bennie, Marion
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Pharmacy Practice
Background: To help alleviate the global pressure on primary care, there has been an increase in the number of clinical pharmacists within primary care. Educational resources are necessary to support this workforce and their development within this role. An educational resource package was developed in Scotland to support the General Practice Clini...
Kitselaar, Willeke M. van der Vaart, Rosalie van Tilborg-den Boeft, Madelon Vos, Hedwig M. M. Numans, Mattijs E. Evers, Andrea W. M.
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BMC Family Practice
Background Persistent somatic symptoms (PSS) are common in primary care and often accompanied by an increasing disease burden for both the patient and healthcare. In medical practice, PSS is historically considered a diagnosis by exclusion or primarily seen as psychological. Besides, registration of PSS in electronic health records (EHR) is unambig...
Teo, Boon See Li, Esther Khoo, Yi-Lin Evaristo, Michelle Fang, Yang Smith, Helen E.
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BMC Family Practice
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Health asked Singapore’s private general practitioners (GPs) to perform swab testing in their clinics, but some GPs had concerns about swabber protection. Our aim was to develop a swabbing booth to address these concerns. Methods We developed a prototype with potential GP users using a human-...
Tolmay, Stephen Koea, Jonathan Stewart, Ian Rahiri, Jamie-Lee
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Surgery
Background In March 2020, in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the New Zealand (NZ) Government instituted a four-level alert system, which resulted in the rapid dissolution of non-urgent surgical services to minimise occupational exposure to both patients and staff, with the primary health sector bearing most of the dive...
Lelièvre, Julie; Hompes, Titia; Schoenmakers, Birgitte; 31684;
BACKGROUND: Postnatal depression (PND) is one of the most frequent complications in women of childbearing age in the developed world. The onset of PND is influenced by several risk factors. In an attempt to avoid unnecessary long maternity stays, a 'Short Stay in Maternity Programme' was installed, shifting care from the hospital environment to the...
Munro, Sarah Wahl, Kate Soon, Judith A. Guilbert, Edith Wilcox, Elizabeth S. Leduc-Robert, Genevieve Ansari, Nadra Devane, Courtney Norman, Wendy V.
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Implementation Science
BackgroundSince Canadian drug regulatory approval of mifepristone for medical abortion in 2015 and its market availability in January 2017, the role of pharmacists in abortion provision has changed rapidly. We sought to identify the factors that influenced the initiation and provision of medical abortion from the perspectives of Canadian pharmacist...
Liaw, Siaw-Teng Kuziemsky, Craig Schreiber, Richard Jonnagaddala, Jitendra Liyanage, Harshana Chittalia, Aliasgar Bahniwal, Ravninder He, Jennifer W Ryan, Bridget L Lizotte, Daniel J
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Yearbook of medical informatics
Internationally, primary care practice had to transform in response to the COVID pandemic. Informatics issues included access, privacy, and security, as well as patient concerns of equity, safety, quality, and trust. This paper describes progress and lessons learned. IMIA Primary Care Informatics Working Group members from Australia, Canada, United...
Dias, Bruna Moreno Zanetti, Ariane Cristina Barboza Pereira, Antonio Carlos
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Einstein
Objective: To analyze the expenses of hospitalizations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the Health Regional Offices of the State of São Paulo. Methods: An ecological, retrospective cohort, with analysis of hospital admissions for ambulatory care sensitive conditions in the state of São Paulo, from 2014 to 2018, compiled by the Hospital I...
