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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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha J. Ignaszewski, May 2015
... normal limits, a referral is made to the consulting family practice physician, who then determines how best to address ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Ryan R. Woods, PhD June 2015
... location and the patients served in a particular practice. Fourth, significant fiscal pressures on the health ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: D. Chapple, MD, FRCPC, September 2015
... Section of the Canadian Pediatric Society published a practice point about the medical assessment of bruising in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nita Jain, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... with the Society for Pediatric Radiology to publish a practice parameter for skeletal surveys in children.[ 4 ] It ... found to have evidence of abusive head trauma.[ 5 ] This practice reflects a recent study confirming the significant ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Brian Winsby, MD October 2015
... in residential care facilities. Five divisions of family practice began prototyping the initiative in 2011: ... who practise in communities in which no division of family practice has been formed are invited to self-organize and ... take place. In the past 4 months, 28 divisions of family practice have applied for funding for the planning phase of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Sylvia Stockler-Ipsiroglu, MD, PhD, MBA, FRCPC, November 2015
... from chromosomal to single gene abnormalities. Current practice for evaluating children with ID prioritizes ... outcomes.[ 10 ] To translate these findings into clinical practice, we established TIDE-BC, the Treatable Intellectual ... ] To expand the use of the TIDE Protocol in the community practice setting and to simplify a process that usually ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Bruce Hobson, MD November 2015
... to patients, physicians need to participate in CME and practice-improvement learning opportunities that are both ... measured using set criteria. In recent years the medical practice landscape has shifted significantly: patients are ... requests for innovative learning opportunities, the Practice Support Program (PSP) has introduced a new model of ...