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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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The Future of Geriatrics: A Podcast with Jerry Gurwitz, Ryan Chippendale, and Mike Harper

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I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. So the data relating to the number of geriatricians in this country, salaries in comparison to hospitalists or primary care physicians. Oh, woe is us.

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Palliative Care Pioneer: Susan Block

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Myself personally, I was in PCEP at Harvard, I think like 2007 or something with Rachelle Bernacki and a bunch of other great people. And man, I still remember those sessions, some of the most powerful learning experiences of my career as a palliative care doctor. I think the rest of it, early advanced care planning is useless.

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Dementia and high risk surgery: Joel Weissman and Samir Shah

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That provision was taken out of Obamacare back in 2007, 2008. I mean, financially, the bulk of the American healthcare system is a fee-for-service system. Is there a role for the primary care doctor, for the anesthesiologist, for the consulting team, for … Eric: Integrative geriatrics. Alex: Mm-hmm. Alex: Mm-hmm.

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

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It was really at the level of the ED across 33 EDs in random order, and then tried to see if we could make a difference in healthcare utilization, primarily the primary outcome was admission to the hospital, acute care admission. Eric 08:45 Why did you choose that as a primary outcome? That’s not news to us.