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How hospitals can cut admission delays by 30%

Today's Hospitalist

APRIL 24, 2025

Key takeaways: Admission delays from the ED can adversely affect mortality, length of stay, medical errors and quality of care. Those interventions included standardizing both bed assignments and nursing handoffs while having ED providers—not an inpatient team—enter skeletal orders when deciding to admit a patient.

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How to Run DMC? It’s Tricky – FDA’s New Draft Guidance Provides Updated Recommendations on How to Best Use Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Tobolowsky & Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert & David B. Moreover, DMCs are being used in trials of modest size and in the context of increased globalization of medical product development. The 2006 guidance noted that these would be “rare cases” limited to “specific issues of urgent concern.”

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A Question 30 Years in the Making: Would a Final LDT Rule Withstand Judicial Scrutiny?

FDA Law Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Lenz, Principal Medical Device Regulation Expert & Sophia R. Gibbs — For more than three decades, FDA has claimed that the Federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C Act) gives the agency legal authority to regulate laboratory developed tests (LDTs) as medical devices (see our prior post here ). Gaulkin & Jeffrey N.

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Draft LASIK Guidance: Why Did FDA Issue New Labeling Recommendations for Products that Already Have PMA Approved Labeling?

FDA Law Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Shapiro — Last summer, FDA published a draft guidance, Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) Lasers – Patient Labeling Recommendations (July 29, 2022) setting forth a proposal for new recommended patient‑directed labeling. The approved devices already have patient‑directed labeling that FDA has approved. By Jeffrey K.

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What every physician should know about care experience (and why it matters)

Permanente Medicine

JUNE 3, 2025

They candidly discuss the unique challenges and opportunities health care organizations face in meeting patient expectations. Assistant Regional Medical Director, Care Experience Southern California Permanente Medical Group Podcast transcript Transcript is autogenerated. I joined SCPMG straight from residency in 2006.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical

How to manage GLP-1s in the hospital

Today's Hospitalist

JUNE 7, 2025

Because many medications can cause weight gain, doctors should consider more weight-neutral alternatives. Medical societies and hospitals are weighing in on periprocedural concerns in patients taking GLP-1s who need procedures or surgeries. Key takeaways: Hospitalists will increasingly have to manage inpatients taking GLP-1s.

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Hospital Management Diabetes Patients

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

GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

The FDA-approved indications for gabapentin are only for treating patients with partial seizures or postherpetic neuralgia. valproic acid and gabapentin), in nursing homes, particularly patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. 2006 Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast. Annals of IM. Tasce: Yes.

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FDA to Require Breast Density Notification Amongst Other Updates to Mammography Regulations

FDA Law Blog

MARCH 15, 2023

By Véronique Li, Senior Medical Device Regulation Expert — Earlier this month, FDA published a final rule to update the mammography regulations, issued under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992 (MQSA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act). It authorized FDA oversight over mammography facilities.

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Healthcare Diagnosis Provider Individual

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

GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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Families Family IT Community

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

GeriPal

JULY 6, 2023

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

GeriPal

MAY 1, 2025

And I graduated from medical school in the early 80s. And I was working at the time at Yale in New Haven, and I became medical director of a facility which was initially created in New Haven as a hospice like facility for people with HIV, which is in late 1995 and in 1996 when the Protease inhibitors came along. Meredith 09:33 Yes.

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Primary Care IT Provider Clinic

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

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Care Ecosystem.

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