Characteristics of family physicians with additional training or focused practices in caring for older adults: Population-based retrospective cohort study.

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.

Assessing the impact of Canadian primary care research and researchers: Citation analysis.

Objective: To describe the citation impact and characteristics of Canadian primary care researchers and research publications.

Design: Citation analysis.

Setting: Canada.

Hypophosphatasia diagnosis: current state of the art and proposed diagnostic criteria for children and adults.

Background: This manuscript provides a summary of the current evidence to support the criteria for diagnosing a child or adult with hypophosphatasia (HPP). The diagnosis of HPP is made on the basis of integrating clinical features, laboratory profile, radiographic features of the condition, and DNA analysis identifying the presence of a pathogenic variant of the tissue nonspecific alkaline phosphatase gene (ALPL). Often, the diagnosis of HPP is significantly delayed in both adults and children, and updated diagnostic criteria are required to keep pace with our evolving understanding regarding the relationship between ALPL genotype and associated HPP clinical features.

Interventions to address polypharmacy in older adults living with multimorbidity: Review of reviews.

Objective: To summarize evidence from published systematic reviews evaluating the effect of polypharmacy interventions on clinical and intermediate outcomes. It also summarizes the adverse events that may occur as a result of these interventions.

Data Sources: A literature search was conducted using the electronic databases MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Central, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (PROSPERO registration number: CRD42018085767).

Patient contracts for chronic medical conditions: Scoping review.

Objective: To describe how and why patient contracts are used for the management of chronic medical conditions.

Data Sources: A scoping review was conducted in the following databases: MEDLINE, Embase, AMED, PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, and Nursing & Allied Health. Literature from 1997 to 2017 was included.

Nurturing a culture of curiosity in family medicine and primary care: The Section of Researchers' Blueprint 2 (2018-2023).

Objective: To describe Blueprint 2 (2018-2023), the 5-year strategic plan launched in 2018 by the Section of Researchers (SOR), as well as its guiding principles and the process used to develop it.

Composition Of The Committee: Blueprint 2 was co-created by many stakeholders from across Canada and led by the SOR Council (SORC). The process started with an external, commissioned program evaluation in 2017 of the effect of the first SOR Blueprint (2012-2017).

Teacher-student relationships and mental health help seeking behaviors among elementary and secondary students in Ontario Canada.

This study examined associations between teacher-student relationship quality at school and teachers' responsiveness to students' emotional concerns in a classroom and (a) students' intention to seek help at school for mental health concerns and (b) mental health-related service use. Data for analyses came from the School Mental Health Survey, a cross-sectional survey of 31,120 grade 6-12 students, in 1968 classrooms, attending 248 schools in Ontario, Canada. Three-level (student, classroom, school) binary logistic regression was used to address the study objectives.

Family medicine residents' knowledge of, attitudes toward, and clinical practices related to environmental health: Multi-program survey.

Objective: To assess family medicine residents' knowledge of, attitudes toward, and clinical practices related to environmental health (EH).

Design: Two-part study with questionnaire construction using a modified Delphi method, and a Web-based questionnaire administered to family medicine residents between November 2015 and January 2016.

Setting: All Canadian family medicine programs (for questionnaire construction) and 4 Ontario family medicine training programs (for questionnaire administration).

Evaluating Patient, Family and Public Engagement in Health Services Improvement and System Redesign.

As efforts to actively involve patients, family members and the broader public in health service improvement and system redesign have grown, increasing attention has also been paid to evaluation of their engagement in the health system. We discuss key concepts and approaches related to evaluation, drawing particular attention to different and potentially competing goals, stakeholders and epistemological entry points. Evaluation itself can be supported by an increasing number of frameworks and tools, matched to the relevant purpose and approach.