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Oral versus intravenous antibiotics for the initial treatment of acute pyelonephritis in adults: a systematic review [Acute and emergency care]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Acute pyelonephritis is a common diagnosis in the primary care and emergency settings. Population Studies had to include adults (≥ 18 years old) with a clinical diagnosis of acute pyelonephritis. More research is needed to guide emergency physicians and other primary care providers in the management of this disease.

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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End-Results (SEER) prostate cancer database found that among men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (based on pathology and a PSA level lower than 20 ng/mL), active surveillance or watchful waiting increased overall from 5% in 2010 to 12.3% and 6.1%, respectively).

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Transforming the Culture of Dementia Care: Podcast with Anne Basting, Ab Desai, Susan McFadden, and Judy Long

GeriPal

When was that, 2010? Eric: 2010. This whole conference that Ab puts on, and all of the tools and resources that he provides people and families with dementia are about, how do you build on the remaining strengths? It was titled, Healthy Aging Persons and Their Brains: Promoting Resilience Through Creative Engagement.

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Private Equity Gobbling Up Hospices plus Hospice and Dementia: Melissa Aldridge, Krista Harrison, & Lauren Hunt

GeriPal

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. That trajectory was in increase from 2000 to say, 2010. I do think the growth of for-profit hospice, so around 2000 to 2010, was beneficial in terms of access.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

And that grew into a group of volunteers coming back and at least providing support groups, giving those men a place where they could talk at least. So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. They didn’t have a mentor, a financial provider, all of those things. They suffered from it.

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GeriPal 300th Episode: Ask Me Anything Hot Ones Style

GeriPal

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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Palliative care for cancer: Podcast with Jennifer Temel and Areej El-Jawahri

GeriPal

Jennifer: Yeah, so I think as all the listeners of this podcast know, and I know he did do a podcast with you guys when he was still able to verbally communicate, with Randy Curtis’ diagnosis of, I keep wanting to say AML, ALS. Jennifer: It was 2010. Eric: 2010. I have oncology on the brain.

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