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

GeriPal

Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again.

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

GeriPal

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? Fernando, what do you think?

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Navigating Insulin Initiation in Type 2 Diabetes: Unraveling the Sociodemographic and Biological Dynamics [Diabetes and endocrine disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: This study aimed to investigate factors affecting insulin prescription patterns in individuals with T2DM. Study Design and Analysis: A cohort design using routine care data, we utilized Fine and Gray’s survival analysis to examine time-to-insulin initiation while accounting for death as a competing event.

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