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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

“But the company really focuses in on patients going to SNFs with COPD, CHF, diabetes—these are the high-acuity diagnoses that you need to pay close attention to,” he points out. ” Phyllis Maguire has been Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist since 2006. Based in Bucks County, Pa.,

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Defining Emergency

StorytellERdoc

After this, one of our regulars who had been to our ER over 200 times (since we started tracking in March of 2006) arrived via ambulance. Upon further questioning, I learned that she had been diagnosed with a yeast infection from her family doctor one month ago but failed to get her prescription filled.

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More than the rule of 2s: All about Meckel Diverticulum

PEMBlog

2006 Oct;99(10):501-5. Meckel diverticulum. Reference article, Radiopaedia.org (Accessed on 26 Oct 2023) [link] Sagar J, Kumar V, Shah DK. Meckel’s diverticulum: a systematic review. J R Soc Med. An J, Zabbo CP. Meckel Diverticulum. Updated 2023 Jan 30]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2023 Jan-.

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PEMPix 2023 Online Case 4: You Can’t Get Fooled Again

PEMBlog

The patient was ultimately diagnosed with tyrosinemia type 1, an autosomal recessive disorder of amino acid metabolism. If not diagnosed, infants with tyrosinemia can die of liver failure within a few years of birth. 2006 Jul 24 [Updated 2017 May 25]. They may also have a porphyria-like presentation. Rashad MM, Nassar C.

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HIV, Aging, and Palliative Care: Peter Selwyn and Meredith Greene

GeriPal

One in 10 people with newly diagnosed HIV is an older adult. And over that first 15 years, which was a very difficult time when there was no treatment at all available, everybody died and usually within months or a year or two of when they were diagnosed. And I also read that 1 out of 10 newly diagnosed HIV cases are in older adults.

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How State and Local Agencies on Aging Help Older Adults: Susan DeMarois, Greg Olsen, and Lindsey Yourman

GeriPal

Started as a direct case manager, worked in a variety of different places including the state legislature and I’ve been with the state office now since 2006. I have 24,500 veterans on our caseload, 14,000 individuals with diagnosed mental health issue, 8,500 with an alcohol and substance abuse. Eric: And Susan?

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier. They could have diagnosed him earlier. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive. So that’s I think diagnoses. Diane: Yeah.