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Beyond Medicine / BY: Eiko Waida, MD, FRCPC, FAAP* March 2024
In 2018, the senior executive team of the Interior Health Authority (IHA) supported the Physician Quality ... better outcomes, and reducing the per capita cost of health care. The dyadic partnership is not a new concept in ... statements from survey participants]. Example: Handwritten notes. One of the PQI dyad projects addressed the need for ...
Letters / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP November 2023
... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?” [ BCMJ ... physician payment levels. As the author correctly notes, “[t]he new model has no incentives to build primary ... the Longitudinal Family Physician Payment Model improve health care, including sustainability?”   Letters Re: Does ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Amritpal Maniani, BSc April 2023
... the BC Centre for Disease Control and the BC Ministry of Health has led to the creation of the Provincial Overdose ... Cohort, which includes linked administrative data on health care use. While these robust databases delineate where ... verbatim by Google Recorder in offline mode without field notes. The transcripts were manually reviewed for accuracy ...
Beyond Medicine, COVID-19 / BY: Cheryl Young, MD, CCFP January/February 2022
... for using ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19, health authorities worldwide, including Health Canada, have not authorized such use. Nevertheless, ... data from standard record fields as well as verbatim case notes. Information captured included demographics of the ...
Letters / BY: Shelley Ross, MD January/February 2020
... the foundation for efficient, effective, and sustainable health care is well supported by evidence and is now being acknowledged broadly by government policymakers, health care administrators, and our medical associations as ... for change, however, goes beyond compensation. As Dr Brown notes, physicians need to be supported by a network that ...
Premise, COVID-19 / BY: Brandon Tang, MD, MSc September 2020
Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, each day has come with new announcements ... our Canadian borders have closed in the spirit of public health and safety. In the midst of these changes, the ... employers to abandon the practice of asking for sick notes,[ 18 ] public health offices are offering a general ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Judy Dercksen, MD January/February 2019
... years ago that patients need to take charge of their own health. Expanding on programs studied at Stanford, he created ... their symptoms are more likely to take charge of their own health.[ 5 ]  Many physicians are not aware of ... coordinator of the Interior Self-Management Program, notes that the various Self-Management BC programs have been ...
Letters / BY: Laurence W. Lee, MD, FRCPC October 2017
... the appropriate preformatted documents, be they admission notes, progress notes, consultations, or discharge summaries, ... without the need to repeat data entry. The history of past health would be repeated automatically on the admitting ... data would be added the next time in the history of past health section. A discharge summary could be primarily ...
Premise / BY: E.M. Wong, MD, CCFP, FCFP May 2017
... difficult conversations about end-of-life care. Exploding health care costs, expanding need for seniors’ health care, opioid overuse, and controversies about futile ... as physicians or our patient’s needs?[ 2 ] Nuland also notes how sometimes physicians will provide false hope in an ...
Letters / BY: Paula B. Gordon, OBC, MD, FRCPC, FSBI March 2014
... ). Some points deserve clarification. In the Health Notes intended for women they state, “Two possible benefits ...