Diabetes Follow Up – Three months or six months?April 30, 2014
 Diabetes Obes Metab. 2014 Mar 17. doi: 10.1111/dom.12288. [Epub ahead of print]: Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of 3-monthly versus 6-monthly monitoring of well-controlled type 2 diabetes patients: a pragmatic randomised controlled patient-preference equivalence trial in primary care (EFFIMODI study). Wermeling PR1, Gorter KJ, Stellato RK, de Wit GA, Beulens JW, Rutten GE. In this study of […]
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Mediterranean Diet wins again!April 30, 2014
 Diabetes Care. 2014 Apr 10. [Epub ahead of print] The Effects of a Mediterranean Diet on Need for Diabetes Drugs and Remission of Newly Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes: Follow-up of a Randomized Trial – Esposito K1, Maiorino MI, Petrizzo M, Bellastella G, Giugliano D. There can now be little doubt that we all need to […] |
The GP as CEO – Private Health Insurance, Accountable Care Organisations and GP FederationsApril 27, 2014
 An increasing number of primary care physicians are using physician lead ‘accountable care organisations’ as a powerful opportunity to retain their autonomy and make a positive difference for their patients — as well as their practices’ bottom lines |
The Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood — Transforming Speciality Practice – NEJMApril 26, 2014
 Transforming Specialty Practice — The Patient-Centered Medical Neighborhood — NEJM The latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine has an informative article on the ‘Patient Centred Medical Neighbourhood’. The article reinforces the view of the Australian Centre for the Medical Home that the creation of a Medical Home is a necessary but not […] |
2014 Guidelines for PCMH RecognitionMarch 31, 2014
 The US based NCQA (National Committee for Quality Assurance) has just released their new 2014 PCMH Standards and Guidelines for PCMH recognition
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Multi Morbidity – Multipliers and DividersMarch 22, 2014
 What I learnt about Multi-Morbidity at the Primary Health Care Research Conference July 2013, by Andrew Knight
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Handbook of Non Drug InterventionsMarch 22, 2014
 The RACGP is collating a series of articles that will together comprise a Handbook of non-drug interventions (“HANDI” ). From the HANDI site: “Advances in non-drug treatments in the past few decades have been substantial and diverse: exercise for heart failure and COPD, the Epley manoeuvre for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, knee taping for osteoarthritis, […]
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Continuity of Care reduces the Risk of Preventable Hospital AdmissionsFebruary 16, 2014
Continuity of Care and the Risk of Preventable Hospitalization in Older Adults Nyweide DJ, Anthony DL, Bynum JP, et al. Continuity of care and the risk of preventable hospitalization in older adults. JAMA Intern Med 2013;173(20):1879-1885. More evidence of the benefits of a long term relationship with a particular provider for elderly patients. Importance Preventable […]
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Email on your Mac – a brief history. And don’t miss the launch of MailPilot today!December 5, 2013
 MailPilot is a brand spanking new email client for Mac, and it is being launched today. This is a limited release – if you would like to test it out you really need to act fast. A Brief History of Mac Email clients. For many years there was no good replacement on OSX for Apple […]
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Reducing cardiovascular risk through a nurse-led email reminder programDecember 4, 2013
Efficacy of a nurse-led email reminder program for cardiovascular prevention risk reduction in hypertensive patients: A randomized controlled trial. A Canadian nurse-led email reminder program to assist patients in managing their cardiovascular risk factors appeared to be effective in this RCT comprising 200 patients. Abstract BACKGROUND: Many strategies have been evaluated to improve the prevention […]
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