The Health Policy Exchange

MARCH 14, 2013

In this month's Georgetown University Health Policy seminar, we discussed the financial and political challenges that AHRQ and its predecessor, the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) have faced while trying to improve outcomes and effectiveness of medical care since the latter's founding during the first Bush Administration.

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StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

The patient arrived in cardiac arrest. His transport from his house to our department had been less than ten minutes and the pre-hospital team had done an excellent job of intubating this patient and establishing an IV to begin resuscitation efforts. We continued our efforts to stabilize this patient as we awaited cardiology's arrival.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 19, 2025

On Fridays, Stephanie Johnson has a busy schedule, driving her navy-blue Jeep from one patient’s home to the next, seeing eight in all. Pregnant with her second child, she schleps a backpack instead of a traditional black bag to carry a laptop and essential medical supplies — stethoscope, blood pressure cuff, and pulse oximeter.

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Doctor Rachel

MAY 16, 2017

The parade of sun-damaged, splotched and cancer-ridden patients in my dermatology rotation in medical school convinced me that sunscreen (especially for fair-skinned folks who are supposed to be living in Northern Europe, not California) is as essential to good health as exercise and good eating. and much of the rest of the world.

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Appropriate use of medication is a key indicator of the quality of care provided in long-term care (LTC). Objective: To determine whether resident-facility language concordance/discordance is associated with the odds of potentially inappropriate prescribing of antipsychotics (PIP-AP) in LTC.

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BMJ

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

7 The same degree of focus has not been paid to misuse of other prescription medications which also have high abuse potential among youth, including medications such as prescription stimulants, tranquilizers, and sedatives. misuse of prescription medications). 2 Opioids contribute a large share of this overdose crisis.

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My Green Doctor

JULY 2, 2025

We hope you will discover resources to share with your family as well! Helping healthcare professionals to educate their patients on these topics so that patients and families can protect themselves. Link NRDC/Medical Society Consortium. Sources: World Health Organization. Link European Investment Bank.

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Georgetown Pediatrics & Family Medicine

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

In 1891, Williams opened Provident Hospital, the first medical facility to have an interracial staff. Dr. Williams’ skills placed him and Provident Hospital at the fore-front of one of Chicago’s medical milestones. In 1967, Dr. Wright became the highest ranked African American woman at a nationally recognized medical institution.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary In the early 1990’s, California Medical Facility (CMF) created one of the nation’s first licensed hospice units inside a prison. Alex: We are in the California Medical Facility and we will ask our guest about that. I’ve known Michele a long time, since the Joint Medical Program. Michele: Yep.

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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary Social connections impact our health in profound ways, whether it is the support we receive from family and friends in navigating serious illness, the joy from shared social activities, or connecting with our community. But, should we as clinicians care about the social lives of our patients?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 25, 2022

Second, Hospice was originally designed for patients with advanced cancer, but the fastest growing admitting diagnosis is dementia. Krista Harrison found , to her surprise, that caregivers of people with dementia who died rated hospice as well as similar patients without dementia who died on hospice. AlexSmithMD. Transcript.

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GeriPal

JULY 28, 2022

This is my early father’s day gift from the family. But at that time I was struck by how in that field, there wasn’t a focus or really interest in symptom management and support for patients and their families. And so I went into medical school wanting to cure cancer. Eric: Yeah. Alex: That’s right.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

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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FDA Law

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In some instances, however, this is only the first hurdle to make innovative products available to patients. In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) established a mandate requiring coverage for women’s preventive services including contraceptives.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

Eric 03:25 So we have a lot to talk about, but I’m wondering if we can kind of take a big step back and just talk about the patient population that’s in nursing homes. Connie 06:18 So, I’ve been a clinician working in the nursing home since back in the 80s, and I saw a lot of patients that really needed palliative care.

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GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Summary Transcript CME Summary Eric and Alex have featured discussions about complex bioethical concepts around caring for people at the end of life, including voluntarily stopping eating and drinking ( VSED ), and multiple episodes about the ethical issues surrounding medical aid in dying ( MAID ). Alex 00:14 We have a very full house today.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. The Lived Experience of Providing Feeding Assistance to a Family Member with Dementia. Whereas the home with the low rate of feeding tube use involved families in decision making. Whereas the high-intensity nursing homes tended not to have a process or did not include families.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Give too much, it may cause harm (even if the higher dose had no significant side effects, it would require patients to take a lot of unnecessary additional pills as well as increase the cost.) So, what is the effective dose of palliative care? Give too little – it may not work. Jennifer 04:25 I can take that on. Eric 05:32 Yeah.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

APRIL 25, 2025

The sub-headline from a Medscape news article said it all: "Anesthesiology Still Hot, Family Medicine Is Not." Before becoming a core faculty member at the Lancaster General Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program , I spent more than 15 years teaching in Georgetown's family medicine department. growth in the U.S.

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Doctors for America

JULY 2, 2025

The policy would disproportionately harm low-income families, communities of color, and patients with chronic or serious medical needs. This unlawful rule will force families off their health insurance and raise costs on millions of Americans. This CMS rule will gut the affordability and protections passed in 2010.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 23, 2025

Please join me and hundreds of medical organizations in standing with AHRQ and preserving its vital contributions to the health of all Americans. ** For the past 30 years, a little-known U.S. Now the Department of Government Efficiency is trying again, threatening 90% staff reductions that would decimate the agency.

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Physician's Weekly

JULY 2, 2025

For more than a decade, a small team of people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention worked to do just that, issuing national guidelines for clinicians on how to prescribe contraception safely for millions of women with underlying medical conditions — including heart disease, lupus, sickle cell disease, and obesity.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

But that’s when his family began fighting another adversary: their health insurer, which decided the treatment was “not medically necessary,” according to insurance paperwork. When the Tennant family was told histotripsy would cost $50,000 and insurance wouldn’t cover it, they appealed the denial four times.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

Family history of febrile seizures. Both the motor movements and characteristics of the seizure, as well as the duration, are really hard to assess in a patient’s home. Obviously, you should ask about immunization status and whether or not the child has any underlying medical or neurologic problems or developmental delay.

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