12 results match your criteria: "Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University.[Affiliation]"
Chronic pain management in primary care: Using population-based data to examine family physician practice patterns.
Can Fam Physician
September 2024
Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, NS, and holds a Tier II Canada Research Chair in Primary Care.
Objective: To examine trends in chronic pain (CP) practice patterns among community-based family physicians (FPs).
Design: Population-based descriptive study using health administrative data.
Setting: British Columbia from fiscal years 2008-2009 to 2017-2018.
Characteristics of family physicians with additional training or focused practices in caring for older adults: Population-based retrospective cohort study.
Can Fam Physician
September 2024
Associate Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University.
Objective: To identify FPs with additional training and focused practice activities relevant to the needs of older patients within health administrative data and to describe their medical practices and service provision in community-based primary care settings.
Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Setting: Ontario.
Changes in comprehensiveness of services delivered by Canadian family physicians: Analysis of population-based linked data in 4 provinces.
Can Fam Physician
August 2023
Associate Faculty member at the School of Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC and a certified health care consultant.
Article Synopsis
- The study aims to analyze changes in the range of services provided by family physicians in four Canadian provinces, focusing on which areas and settings experienced the most significant changes.
- Using billing data linked to physician registries, the research evaluates service comprehensiveness over two fiscal years (1999-2000 and 2017-2018) across various medical settings and service areas.
- Results indicate a decline in service comprehensiveness across all provinces, with the most significant reductions occurring in specific service settings, especially among seasoned male physicians practicing in urban environments.
Ending the generational blame game: Let us move forward with needed primary care change.
Can Fam Physician
August 2023
Collaborative mental health care: Engaging health systems to support a team-based approach.
Can Fam Physician
February 2023
Founder and Director of the Living Well Integrative Health Centre in Halifax, NS, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax.
Objective: To understand physician acceptance of new patients, specifically the use of "meet and greets"; and to explore FPs' rationale, beliefs, and processes regarding these appointments.
Design: Exploratory qualitative interviews.
Setting: Nova Scotia.
Objective: To examine the degree to which Canadian consensus guideline recommendations for annual comprehensive preventive care assessments of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are being taken up by Nova Scotia family physicians since the introduction of incentive billing codes; and to discuss the importance of complete physical examinations for this patient population, extra time needed in clinic encounters, and challenges for practitioners providing care.
Design: Analysis of family physicians' billing of codes 03.04C and 03.
Promoting health care decision-making capabilities of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Can Fam Physician
April 2019
Manager and Senior Research Associate at Surrey Place.
Objective: To outline an approach to assessing the risk of emergencies in one's medical practice and determining the equipment and medications required for emergencies and the necessary staff training to meet this important facet of patient care.
Sources Of Information: The emergency preparedness recommendations presented in this article are based on data collected from family physicians' current preparedness plans, formal physician evaluation and informal feedback provided after 2 large group presentations, and the authors' expertise in areas including family medicine, emergency medicine, prehospital care, and pharmacology.
Main Message: Delineating risk based on practice profile, location, and demographic characteristics will inform the development of an appropriate plan to meet both public expectations and professional obligations.
HELP for behaviours that challenge in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Can Fam Physician
April 2018
Objective: To provide primary care physicians with an understanding of the causes of behaviours that challenge (BTC) in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), as presented in the 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines for primary care of adults with IDD; to offer a systematic approach to the assessment and treatment of such behaviours; and to link to tools to support these assessments.
Sources Of Information: This review elaborates upon guidelines 26 to 29 in the mental health section of the 2018 Canadian consensus guidelines. Several of the authors participated in the development of these guidelines, which were based on literature searches and interdisciplinary input.
Objective: To update the 2011 Canadian guidelines for primary care of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD).
Methods: Family physicians and other health professionals experienced in the care of people with IDD reviewed and synthesized recent empirical, ecosystem, expert, and experiential knowledge. A system was developed to grade the strength of recommendations.