Agencies strive for more primary care, pointing to local inequities The Hastings Prince Edward Ontario Health Team is proposing new primary-care clinics and other measures to improve care and address local health inequities. November 1, 2024 News Municipalities reeling from projected OPP cost increase...
Appropriate dissemination of program information to family physicians should help buy-in and participation. Nurse practitioners' skills may not be optimally utilized in this setting.Background Within Canada, current policy priorities include enhancements to primary healthcare and home care [1]. The role...
In the week before death, about a third of the people had some kind of health-care encounter, “Part of that is to help make sure people get the best quality of care within the hospital setting, but also to help plan for when people are discharged to connect them to primary care, the...
Department of Family Medicine, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University Overall Learning Objectives Recognize a variety of common problems and emerging issues in Family Practice. Discuss challenges primary care physicians and allied health profe...
In our primary analysis focusing on those who initiated their vaccination series on or after June 1, 2021, the rate of myocarditis or pericarditis tended to be higher after the second dose of the mRNA vaccine than after the first dose, particularly for individuals who received mRNA-1273 as the...
While the values and successes of the program were overwhelmingly acknowledged by all volunteers, some challenges were discussed, along with potential solutions for future program improvement and sustainability. The primary value of the OSNP identified by these participants was the influence they ...