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Understanding the Variability in Care of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia

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While we like to think about how our goals and preferences will influence what that life looks like, including whether you will get potentially burdensome interventions, your fate is probably influenced more by factors like where you live and what nursing home you happen to end up in. . Eric: And Alex, we got a full house today. Ruth: Sure.

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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. He’s like, don’t use that as your primary outcome. No difference in their primary outcome. The primary care intervention did not work well. Basically vital talk. No difference. Corita 26:15 Yeah.