Canadian family physician Médecin de famille canadien
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To help busy FPs find useful current information and keep up to date on pediatric infectious disease and immunization topics by highlighting the work of one excellent source of reliable information in this area, the Canadian Paediatric Society Infectious Diseases and Immunization Committee. ⋯ Learn where to find this new and continuously changing information and how to stay evergreen in your knowledge.
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To describe and evaluate the effectiveness of domestic violence education in improving physicians' knowledge, recognition, and management of abused women. ⋯ It was difficult to determine the most effective educational strategy, as the educational interventions and the outcome measures varied among the selected studies. Brief interventions for postgraduate trainee physicians improved knowledge but did not seem to affect behaviour. Online education using a problem-based learning format improved practising physicians' perceptions, knowledge, and skills in managing domestic violence. Physician training combined with system support interventions seemed to benefit domestic violence victims and increase referrals to domestic violence support resources.
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To describe and evaluate the effectiveness of domestic violence education in improving physicians' knowledge, recognition, and management of abused women. ⋯ It was difficult to determine the most effective educational strategy, as the educational interventions and the outcome measures varied among the selected studies. Brief interventions for postgraduate trainee physicians improved knowledge but did not seem to affect behaviour. Online education using a problem-based learning format improved practising physicians' perceptions, knowledge, and skills in managing domestic violence. Physician training combined with system support interventions seemed to benefit domestic violence victims and increase referrals to domestic violence support resources.
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Canadian hypertension guidelines do not address blood pressure (BP) targets in the very old (older than 85 years of age), making BP management in this group difficult. ⋯ The development and use of a BP target tool increased prescriber consistency and confidence in managing BP in the very old. The tool filled a gap in the absence of guidelines specific to BP management in the very old. The BP target tool has implications for practice, as well as for the training of health care professionals involved in treating and monitoring BP in very old patients.
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To understand how the new guidelines for management of cardiovascular risk by the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology (AHA-ACC) can be interpreted and used in a Canadian setting. ⋯ Focus on the best evidence in CVD risk can simplify lipid management for both the physician and the patient.