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Tailored Health Communication: Crafting the Patient Message for HIV TIPS

The HIV TIPS project will pilot and evaluate the use of web-based information technology on prescription errors and quality of care by providing tailored practice guidelines and patient education in ambulatory practice settings of the National AIDS Education and Training Centers (NAETC) network. In the first phase of the project, we tailored messages to guide patient adherence and self-care, us...

Tips for GP trainees working in public health.

500 British Journal of General Practice, September 2013 Public health is a specialty in which few of us have practical experience. It’s generally poorly covered at medical school but believe me, there’s more to this stuff than statistics and John Snow’s pump handle. Until 2013, the typical GP placement would involve working in the primary care trust (PCT), primarily in the Department of Public ...

Tips for Transitioning to a New Electronic Health Record System

J Adv Pract Oncol 2012;3:330–332 The dreaded memo came on a Friday afternoon (as dreaded memos often seem to do). It read: “You must sign up for training for the change from Cerner to the Epic System.” Insert any vendor’s name in place of either of these two electronic health record (EHR) systems,1 and the feeling of dread it brings on is the same. My first question was “Why?” The current syste...

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The primary health care physician and the cancer patient: tips and strategies for managing sexual health

There is a large and growing population of long-term cancer survivors. Primary care physicians (PCPs) are playing an increasingly greater role in the care of these patients across the continuum of cancer survivorship. In this role, PCPs are faced with the responsibility of managing a range of medical and psychosocial late effects of cancer treatment. In particular, the sexual side effects of tr...