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The Massachusetts Avenue of health reform

The Health Policy Exchange

In contrast to the personality-driven path that Lyndon Johnson took to navigate legislative obstacles to Medicare and Medicaid, former management consultant Mitt Romney charted a decidedly different course to expanding health insurance when he became governor of Massachusetts in 2003. in 2006 to 1.9%

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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

LIKE MOST HOSPITALS , Veterans Affairs facilities across the country track admission delays, the amount of time it takes to move a patient who’s being admitted out of the ED and into an inpatient bed. ” Phyllis Maguire has been Executive Editor of Today’s Hospitalist since 2006. reduction. . Based in Bucks County, Pa.,

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Bouncebacks from SNFs: How one health system is making progress

Today's Hospitalist

WITH PATIENT ACUITY levels rising in hospitals, it makes sense that the patients being discharged to SNFs are likewise increasingly complex. That company, which is based in Detroit, focuses on providing post-acute care, complete with physiatrists and APRNs, as well as care managers and coordinators. Based in Bucks County, Pa.,

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 1: Differentiating organic versus psychiatric causes of agitation and altered mental status

PEMBlog

Collaborative Care in the Identification and Management of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults. In: Textbook of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5th, Fleisher GR, Ludwig S, Henretig FM (Eds), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia 2006. Pediatrics 2021; 147. Sedel F, Baumann N, Turpin JC, et al. Psychiatric emergencies.

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How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s. Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. That’s according to two internists who work closely with hospitalized patients who take GLP-1s.

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Gabapentinoids – Gabapentin and Pregabalin: Tasce Bongiovanni, Donovan Maust and Nisha Iyer

GeriPal

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Eric: And we have Tasce Bongiovanni, who is an acute care trauma surgeon at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital. J Am Geriatr Soc. Annals of IM. This is Eric Widera.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Through a series of events, I started working as a consultant to the Department of Corrections in around 2006, and I was assigned to the California Medical Facility. When they built a new prison hospital in Stockton, the dialysis went there. And the dad just totally lost control, major anger management issues. Michele: Yep.

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