Publications by authors named "L A Goldsmith"
Background: Though there are more family physicians in Canada than ever before, and residency programs are expanding, gaps in access to comprehensive care remain. This study aimed to describe and understand the role residency training experiences played in shaping practice choices, including the provision of comprehensive community-based care, among early career family physicians.
Methods: A secondary analysis of sixty-three (63) qualitative interviews was conducted on data from a larger mixed method study on practice patterns and choices of early career Canadian family physicians.
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic overwhelmed health systems, resulting in a surge in excess deaths. This study clustered countries based on excess mortality to understand their response to the pandemic and the influence of various factors on excess mortality within each cluster.
Materials And Methods: This ecological study is part of the COVID-19 MORtality (C-MOR) Consortium.
Background: Migrants to the UK face disproportionate risk of infections, non-communicable diseases, and under-immunisation compounded by healthcare access barriers. Current UK migrant screening strategies are unstandardised with poor implementation and low uptake. Health Catch-UP! is a collaboratively produced digital clinical decision support system that applies current guidelines (UKHSA and NICE) to provide primary care professionals with individualised multi-disease screening (7 infectious diseases/blood-borne viruses, 3 chronic parasitic infections, 3 non-communicable disease or risk factors) and catch-up vaccination prompts for migrant patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Detection and management of late-life depression largely relies on primary care. Yet in Singapore, older adults are unlikely to seek help for their mental health from their primary care providers. This qualitative descriptive study explores how late-life depression manifests to general practitioners (GPs) in the Singaporean primary care setting.
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- This study analyzed cause-specific mortality rates during the COVID-19 pandemic in 12 countries, focusing on respiratory diseases, pneumonia, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and cancer in 2020 and 2021.
- It found significant reductions in mortality from respiratory diseases and pneumonia in most countries, although some like Georgia and Ukraine saw excess deaths from these causes.
- The research also indicated that stringent control measures helped lower excess mortality rates, while a higher incidence of COVID-19 negatively impacted certain types of mortality, particularly for cancer in 2021.