Family Practice
Family practice registered nurses
... Exemplary FP-RNs were able to balance multiple pri- orities, including the simultaneous, unpredictable, and immediate needs of many patients and colleagues. Compared with the hospital setting, one participant explained, ...
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Educational role of nurse practitioners in a family practice centre
... This study is limited to the views held by residents and NPs at a single academic family practice centre, at one point in time. While participation in the study was very high, 1 second-year resident and 1 ...
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Fisher Family Practice Teaching Plan
... Fisher Family Practice allocates a primary supervisor for every ...The practice will endeavour to always have a supervisor available for advice on location or by phone as appropriate to the level of ...
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Dermoscopy for melanoma detection in family practice
... in family practice. This technique can increase family physicians’ confidence in their referral accuracy to dermatologists and can assist in decreasing unnecessary ...clinical practice ...
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Pathways to rural family practice at Memorial University of Newfoundland
... for practice in a province that features a widely dis- tributed population across an expansive geographic ...rural family prac- tice, as well as the national and provincial effects of using this ...
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Seeing the baby, doing family: commercial ultrasound as family practice?
... In this article we have explored the proposal that commercial ultrasound examination and the social interactions around them can be theorised as ‘family practices’. This analysis helps us to understand why women ...
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Structured approach to patients with memory difficulties in family practice
... less practical for use in busy family practice. If depression is suspected, a trial of therapy with antidepressant medication with low anticholinergic load and few drug interactions (eg, citalopram) might ...
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Approach to the new oral anticoagulants in family practice
... Recent practice guidelines indicate that NOACs should be considered first-line anticoagulant therapy for stroke prevention in patients with newly diagnosed AF, but each agent has advantages and ...
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Adoption of open-access scheduling in an academic family practice
... Dalhousie Family Medicine program operates 2 clin- ics in Halifax, NS: Camp Hill Family Medicine Centre (3 teams that have approximately 20 000 patient vis- its per annum) and Cowie Family Medicine ...
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Approach to the new oral anticoagulants in family practice
... 43. Whitlock RP, Sun JC, Fremes SE, Rubens FD, Teoh KH. Antithrombotic and thrombolytic therapy for valvular disease: antithrombotic therapy and preven- tion of thrombosis, 9th ed: American College of Chest Physicians ...
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Family practice patients’ adherence to statin medications
... Clinical practice guidelines for treatment of dyslipidemia established by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society also promote regular exercise and healthy eating as the cornerstones of heart disease ...
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Patient and Citizen Innovation Council in family practice
... Academic Family Medicine (AFM) Clinic at the South Health Campus (SHC) in Calgary, Alta, recognized a potential gap between health care provider assumptions and the reality of what patients perceive to be most ...
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Developing family practice to respond to global health challenges
... services. Family physicians can support and encourage these cadres toward ever improving individual care and systems that make care more holistic and responsive to a broader range of human ...
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ICD-10. Clinical Concepts for Family Practice
... E10.22 is a combination code in ICD-10-CM incorporating both the type of diabetes (type 1 is E10) and the manifestation chronic kidney disease (after decimal point.22). Instructions fro[r] ...
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Integrating pharmacists into family practice teams
... We conducted 4 exploratory focus groups 3 months into the project to identify issues related to working with the IMPACT pharmacists. Each focus group comprised 4 to 9 physicians from 1 practice and the practice’s ...
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Rewards and challenges of family practice
... Control, flexibility, and security (reward 6) is a key reward resulting from physicians’ perception of the “freedom to set my own hours” and the ability to “exert significant control over my client load.” Family ...
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Understanding elder abuse in family practice
... Main message Elder abuse is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in older adults. While family physicians are well placed to identify mistreatment of seniors, their actual rates of reporting abuse are ...
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Out of time: theorising family in social work practice
... humane family minded ...of family practice have had something of a boost in recent years in areas of the UK with the rise of restorative practices and models such as Signs of Safety (Turnell and ...
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Predictors of rural family medicine practice in Canada
... rural family medicine at entry into medical school and postresidency rural practice as a family ...of practice to be predictive of practising in a rural ...
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Family medicine residents’ practice intentions
... specialized family medi- cine disciplines (eg, sports medicine) or to omit from their practices family medicine services they find unde- sirable (eg, obstetrics or palliative ...national family ...
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