Some Canadians have limited access to longitudinal primary care, despite its known advantages for population health. Current initiatives to transform primary care aim to increase access to primary care clinics. (more…)
Audit and feedback interventions elicit behaviour change by describing existing patterns of behaviour and providing education about desired ideal behaviours. But these effects vary based on their design and delivery.
Although many studies showed the effectiveness of such interventions on clinician prescribing behaviours, few have looked at the prescriber and practice characteristics most predictive of behaviour changes.
Understanding which clinicians are most likely to respond positively is necessary for improving quality of care.
Opioid analgesic prescribing has been in trouble for decades in North America. Things are changing, though. Still, there’s room to adjust care, especially new starts.
[April 27] The ongoing opioid crisis continues to inflict serious harms on thousands of British Columbians. Some harms are due to initiation of opioid analgesics in primary care which contributes to the development of prescription opioid addiction and opioid use disorder (OUD) in up to a quarter of all individuals started on opioid analgesics. (more…)
Our new study published in the Canadian Journal of Addiction found plateauing rates of new starts of opioid analgesics in British Columbia in 2018-2019. We wanted to find out how many and what kind of opioid prescriptions were started to opioid naïve patients by family physicians in British Columbia. (more…)