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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

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Accreditation In support of improving patient care, UCSF Office of CME is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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Should she have an operation, and risk the pain, potential complications, and attendant delirium associated with the operation? And I came to the now I think naive conclusion that fixing and avoiding complications was the secret. They were more likely to have a major inpatient surgical complication. She falls and breaks her hip.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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He is a pulmonologist and critical care physician. He’s assistant professor of medicine at UCSF, and he’s one of my former research mentees, and he’s very interested in medical ethics and decision making in the ICU. Susan: Well, I think first of all, there was no palliative care back then. Susan: Beautiful.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

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Do they have documents in the record like medical orders for life sustaining treatment or a healthcare proxy? Yeah, that’s a more complicated story. But yeah, it’s complicated. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well. That’s not news to us.