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Using data for practice quality improvement to address blood sugar challenges for complex care patient

By Dr. Omesh Syal on April 15, 2024

I highly recommend registering with the Health Data Coalition and becoming more familiar with your measures within the HDC Discover application to recognize your contribution. We, as a collective profession, can make a positive impact on our own practices and larger communities.

Physician and patients. Palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations.

Palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations

By Dr. Shirley Samuel-Haynes on November 21, 2023

I learned that a palliative approach to care and serious illness conversations address and manage patients’ and families’ psychological, practical, social, loss/grief, spiritual, and physical issues like pain and symptom management in line with their goals of care and help prepare for eventual life closure. Here are practical tips on how to implement this in your practice.

Serious illness conversations and capturing advance care planning

Serious illness conversations and capturing advance care planning

By Drs. Charlie Chen and Hayden Rubensohn on April 12, 2017

What is the patient willing to consent to as treatment if his/her condition were to seriously deteriorate? The Serious Illness Conversation Guide developed by Ariadne Labs provides a framework for physicians to engage in care planning with patients in a manner acceptable to the patient.

But I don’t do maternity care… (yes you do!)

But I don’t do maternity care… (yes you do!)

By Dr. Karen Buhler on October 12, 2016

In BC women are receiving maternity care from fewer providers. To assist practitioners Perinatal Services BC created the Primary Maternity Pathway and the Vancouver Division of Family Practice in 2014 developed a 2-page Early Prenatal Care Summary Checklist for Primary Care.

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RACE Hotline

By Dr. Daniel Dodek on June 24, 2013

There is a single telephone advice number that connects family doctors with specialists from a vast array of disciplines, often within an hour. The initiative is called RACE (Rapid Access to Consultative Expertise).

Advance care plan (ACP) for patients with multiple co-morbidities

Advance care plan (ACP) for patients with multiple co-morbidities

By Dr. Catherine Clelland on March 20, 2012

The GP Services Committee developed the Complex Care Planning fee (14033) to encourage Family Physicians to spend time with patients with multiple co-morbidities and develop a plan for their management.

New fee codes and treatment options have improved my care of patients with mental health problems

By Dr. Bob Bluman on July 11, 2010

It was usually difficult to get my patients into appropriate resources and due to my lack of tools and time to help these patients, I would often prescribe medications.

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