8 results match your criteria: "Jewish General Hospital in Montreal[Affiliation]"

Objective: To identify factors associated with unplanned return visits to the emergency department (ED) among the population aged 75 years and older. Moreover, it aims to determine the association between patients' access to primary care and unplanned return visits.

Design: Data were collected from structured interviews, administrative databases, and medical charts at the index visits, and follow-up telephone calls were made at 3 months.

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Excluding pregnant people from Covid-19 clinical trials may lead to unintended harmful consequences. For this study, an online questionnaire was sent to physicians belonging to Canadian professional medical associations in order to evaluate their perspectives on the participation of pregnant women in Covid-19 clinical trials. The majority of respondents expressed support for including pregnant women in Covid-19 trials (119/165; 72%), especially those investigating therapies with a prior safety record in pregnancy (139/164; 85%).

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How often do both core competencies of shared decision making occur in family medicine teaching clinics?

Can Fam Physician

February 2019

Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Emergency Medicine and a researcher in the Office of Education and Professional Development at Laval University, Population Health and Optimal Health Practices at the Research Centre of the CHU de Québec, the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Ontario, and the CERSSPL-UL.

Objective: To assess how often risk communication and values clarification occur in routine family medicine practice and to explore factors associated with their occurrence.

Design: Qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional study.

Setting: Five university-affiliated family medicine teaching clinics across Quebec.

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Purpose/objectives: To explore the cancer experience of parents and their perceptions of supportive strategies to assist them with illness- and family-related challenges.

Design: Qualitative, descriptive design.

Setting: A large McGill University-affiliated hospital cancer care center in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Purpose/objectives: To explore how young adult patients with cancer experience "being known" by their healthcare team.

Research Approach: Qualitative, descriptive.

Setting: A university-affiliated hospital in Montreal, Quebec.

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