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Premise / BY: Siavash Jafari, MD, MHSc, FRCPC March 2014
... on prescribers who clearly deviate from accepted medical practice in terms of prescription painkiller dosage, numbers ... C. Opioids for chronic noncancer pain: A new Canadian practice guideline. CMAJ 2010;182:923-930. Premise ...
Premise / BY: Martin Dawes, MBBS, MD, FRCGP, December 2014
... measurement system accompanied by an extensive practice improvement process, a counting approach is unlikely ... The assessment of performance quality within family practice is not new. In 1985 the UK set up a voluntary ... physicians identify improvements they could make to their practice as a whole. Introduced before computers were ...
Premise / BY: Granger Avery, MD September 2014
... experience, CPD, team-based care, and measured outcomes of practice examined in local and regional continuous quality ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD May 2014
With the support of the Patterns of Practice Committee (POPC), a regular column will appear in ... on the most common billing errors discovered during practice reviews and audits. The POPC is committed to ... or more. •    Initial or introductory visits to the practice by new patients. •    Travel advice, lifestyle ...
Premise / BY: B. Nosyk, PhD, December 2014
... the training of physicians with a background in family practice, internal medicine, and psychiatry.  Enhancing ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD October 2013
... to switch from obstetrics and gynecology to general practice. His delight in his work gave him the much-needed ... I would have missed the experiences of northern and rural practice, 20 additional years of obstetrics, and the hospital ...
Back Page / BY: Ralph Jones, MD December 2013
... on as a favor, back in the days when there was room in my practice. But as I ascended the years, through the pictures, ... 35 years’ worth of paper charts. I will have left my practice by then, if not the planet. When these electronic ...
Premise / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP June 2012
... by implementing numerous initiatives through the General Practice Services Committee (GPSC) to stem the decline of family practice and facilitate the provision of longitudinal care.  ... in a unique initiative, namely involvement in a type of practice that is funded largely based on the illness burden ...
Premise / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, October 2012
... and we salute Dr Laycock’s commitment to this in his practice. However, as shown in the National Canadian Family ... do not include full counseling about risk factors in their practice, with the most common barrier being lack of time. ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Sterling Haynes, MD December 2012
... back to life. To that end, Drs Hawes and Cogan began the practice of a unique type of holistic medicine. At around ...