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

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” And I said to her, well, they had a geriatric nurse practitioner. So I went in Mike’s place for a couple times, and I think the first one was in 2007, and I just remember year after year, ADGAP always talked about, “Oh, the numbers are so bad. We don’t have a geriatrician. Oh, woe is us.

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

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For residents and nurse practitioners, primary outcome was the quality of communication. And so because you remember, board certification didn’t come around until 2007. You’d have to tailor it to each individual emergency department because you couldn’t. Basically vital talk. No difference. That is safe.