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Letters / BY: Lorne Brandt, MD, January/February 2015
... town, and me. In our personal care home we had a practice of reviewing medications with the charge nurse every ... or changed. The neighboring town did not have this practice. Not surprisingly, the average number of drugs taken ...
Letters / BY: Mike Marshall, MD, January/February 2015
... just as the overall decline in full-service family practice began when we were told we did not qualify for ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2015
... catastrophic hemorrhage of general practitioners from the practice of obstetrics when there was a political decision ... targets a variety of GPs, including those who are new to practice and want a bit of a confidence boost and ongoing ... from the MC4BC program to apply ( http://gpscbc.ca/family-practice-incentive/maternity-care-bc ). —Shelley Ross, MD ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP March 2015
... by 30%.[ 1 ] We have been encouraging divisions of family practice to organize these events in their communities, and ... (BCRPA) along with the Chilliwack Division of Family Practice. That division partnered with its local RPA around ... make these connections for us. And divisions of family practice can work directly with their local RPA if they ...
Letters / BY: Rick Potter-Cogan, MB BCh BAO March 2015
... article promoting a living and local method of family practice review and quality improvement [ BCMJ ... Re: Measuring and improving quality of care in family practice ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brenda Hefford, MD April 2015
Local divisions of family practice have identified team-based care as an integral part ... rates in BC. As of 1 March 2015, 22 divisions of family practice have completed an evaluation of their community ... recruitment, retention, and retirement strategies; practice support and coaching; and health promotion and ...
Letters / BY: Denise McLeod, MD, April 2015
... of the patient’s medical home—a model of family practice promoted by the College of Family Physicians of ... is but one innovative approach to advance collaborative practice and access to family physicians for all—similar ... efforts in backing other patient’s medical home practice models will yield the best results for the health of ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD May 2015
... service agreements in 2011 with local divisions of family practice and their respective health authority partners in ... with other stakeholders helped establish five best practice expectations for the provincial initiative: 1.    ... 5.    Attendance at case conferences These best practice expectations are anticipated to reduce unnecessary ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: John Hamilton, MD, July/August 2015
... being led by three joint clinical committees—the General Practice Services Committee, the Specialist Services ... operates at various levels, from physician-led changes in practice such as those implemented by community-based divisions of family practice involved in A GP for Me, to provincial-level ...
Letters / BY: Bret Batchelor, MD, September 2015
... of the other team members.” In other words, in a busy practice, a physician will likely be unable to bill for a ... sees that patient. How is this supposed to get residents practice-ready if, in order to bill for the review and care ...