Canadian Family Physician

🤚 Stop scrolling—the October 2024 issue is here! Featuring: - Provider-patient attachment in primary care - Approach to otitis externa - Use of least restraint principle in hospital care - Incident analysis tool for teaching patient safety 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/gbKYE4Hq #CFPJournal #FamMed #familymedicine #healthcare #healthtalk #MedEd #familypractice #primarycare ______________________ 🚨 Attention! Le numéro d'octobre du MFC est arrivé! Comprend : - Rattachement professionnel-patient en soins primaires - Approche pour les cas d’otite externe - Principe de la contention minimale dans les soins hospitaliers - Outil d’analyse des incidents pour enseigner la sécurité des patients 🔗 Lire ici: https://lnkd.in/gbKYE4Hq #RevueMFC #médecinedefamille #soinsdesanté #discussionsurlasanté #FormationenMF #soinsprimaires

❓ Did you know Ontario walk-in clinic physicians have more encounters with patients who are younger and live in large urban areas in ethnically diverse neighbourhoods? Learn more about characteristics of walk-in clinic physicians and patients in Ontario in this Canadian Family Physician article by Lapointe-Shaw et al.: https://lnkd.in/eYiziism. #healthcare #clinic #patients #patientexperience #medical #healthsystems #Ontario #urban

The October issue of CFP is here! 🙌🏻 Check out these articles: ‣‣ Of care continuity and brick walls—Nicholas Pimlott https://lnkd.in/gvqH452X ‣‣ Cardiotoxicity of cancer treatment—Sian L. Shuel https://lnkd.in/gc6MaqSs ‣‣ Characteristics of walk-in clinic physicians and patients in Ontario, Cross-sectional study—Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, Christine Salahub, Peter C. Austin, Li Bai, Sundeep Banwatt, Simon Berthelot, R. Sacha Bhatia, Cherryl Bird, Laura Desveaux, Tara Kiran, Aisha Lofters, Malcolm Maclure, Danielle Martin, Kerry A. McBrien, Rita K. McCracken, J. Michael Paterson, Bahram Rahman, Jennifer Shuldiner, Mina Tadrous, Braeden A. Terpou, Niels Thakkar, Ruoxi Wang and Noah M. Ivers https://lnkd.in/gXk-7Eak ‣‣ Toward a universal definition of provider-patient attachment in primary care—Monica Aggarwal and Richard H. Glazier https://lnkd.in/g4Z7qNTD #CFPJournal #familymedicine #familyphysician #healthcare #primarycare #medicine

🩺 Can recycling doctors address the family physician shortage in Canada? How can we prevent RSV in infants? Is abelism a barrier to care and dignity in medical settings? ➡️ Read about these topics, and more, in the October issue of Canadian Family Physician: https://lnkd.in/eq34QBBK. #familymedicine #primarycare #medicine #healthcare #patients #physicians #familymedicineresidency #familydoctor #medicalresearch #RSV #infants #abelism #patientsafety #otitis #cancertreatment

New Paper Published! Characteristics of walk-in clinic physicians and patients in Ontario: Cross-sectional study Lauren Lapointe-Shaw https://ift.tt/W0QLrAb Can Fam Physician. 2024 Oct;70(10):e156-e168. doi: 10.46747/cfp.7010e156. ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE: To describe family physicians who primarily practise in a walk-in clinic setting and compare them with family physicians who provide longitudinal care. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study that linked results from a 2019 physician survey to provincial administrative health care data in Ontario. The characteristics, practice patterns, and patients of physicians primarily working in a walk-in clinic setting were compared with those of family physicians providing longitudinal care. SETTING: Ontario. PARTICIPANTS: Physicians who primarily worked in a walk-in clinic setting in 2019, as indicated by an annual physician survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Physician demographic and practice characteristics, as well as their patients' demographic and health care utilization characteristics, were reported according to whether the physician was a walk-in clinic physician or a family physician who provided longitudinal care. RESULTS: Compared with the 9137 family physicians providing longitudinal care, the 597 physicians who self-identified as practising primarily in walk-in clinics were more frequently male (67% vs 49%) and more likely to speak a language other than English or French (43% vs 32%). Walk-in clinic physicians tended to have more encounters with patients who were younger (mean 37 vs 47 years), who had lower levels of prior health care utilization (15% vs 19% in highest band), who resided in large urban areas (87% vs 77%), and who lived in highly ethnically diverse neighbourhoods (45% vs 35%). Walk-in clinic physicians tended to have more encounters with unattached patients (33% vs 17%) and with patients attached to another physician outside their group (54% vs 18%). CONCLUSION: Physicians who primarily work in walk-in clinics saw many patients from historically underserved groups and many patients who were attached to another family physician. PMID:39406418 | DOI:10.46747/cfp.7010e156 via mccracken, rk[All Fields] https://ift.tt/3N4ailA October 14, 2024 at 05:00PM

Delighted to share our latest work published in the Canadian Family Physician journal (https://lnkd.in/gp2we4Fc) where we provide a universal evidence-informed definition of provider-patient attachment in primary care:   "Provider-patient attachment is the confirmed and documented affiliation between a patient and a regular primary care provider (clinician—ie, family physician or nurse practitioner, etc—or a combination of clinician and care team or practice) in which the primary care provider is responsible for providing longitudinal and continuous care to the patient via any delivery channel (ie, in person or remotely or both), enabled by provider access to patient health information".   Thank you to #HealthCanada and the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Virtual Care/Digital Table for the opportunity to lead this project and to Dr. Rick Glazier for collaboration! #PrimaryCare #UniversalDefinition #ContinuousCare #HealthcarePolicy #PatientCare #PrimaryHealthCare #Attachment

Recent Choosing Wisely publication in Canadian Family Physician looks into when urine testing to rule out infection may be unnecessary and do more harm than good. Read the full article: https://loom.ly/dhF4hEs

The latest Dispatch, from the North: https://lnkd.in/guCPE4Nw

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🌎 How can family physicians practise climate-conscious #inhaler prescribing? Evidence shows that inhalers—specifically metered-dose inhalers—have a high carbon footprint and contribute substantially to health care #greenhousegas emissions in #Canada. In "Climate-conscious inhaler prescribing for family physicians," Dr Samantha Green et al outline ways in which #familyphysicians can reduce unnecessary inhaler prescribing, including optimizing dosing technique and disposing of inhalers appropriately. 🔗 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g-P29rkx #CFPJournal #FamMed #familymedicine #healthcare #healthtalk #MedEd #familypractice #primarycare #globalhealth #climatecrisis  _____________________________ 🌎 Comment les médecins de famille peuvent-ils prescrire des inhalateurs respectueux de l’environnement ? Il est prouvé que les inhalateurs, et plus particulièrement les aérosols-doseurs, produisent d’importantes émissions de carbone et contribuent largement aux émissions de gaz à effet de serre engendrées par le secteur de la santé au Canada. Dans un article « Prescription d’inhalateurs respectueuse du climat pour les médecins de famille », la Dre Samantha Green et ses collaborateurs décrivent les moyens dont disposent les médecins de famille pour réduire les prescriptions inutiles d’inhalateurs, notamment en optimisant la technique de dosage et en disposant les inhalateurs de manière appropriée. 🔗 Apprenez-en davantage en cliquant ici : https://lnkd.in/g83bbCMn #RevueMFC #Médecinedefamille #soinsdesanté #Discussionsurlasanté #MedEd #familypractice #soinsprimaires #santémodiale #criseclimatique