FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Use of contract pharmacies ballooned after a guidance issued by HRSA in 2010 allowed covered entities to use multiple contract pharmacies to dispense drugs to covered entity patients.

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GeriPal

JUNE 5, 2025

The obstacles hindering referrals to palliative care services. We also take a dive into these 2 articles that Connie first authored: Palliative care in nursing homes: A qualitative study on referral criteria and implications for research and practice. Nursing home, length of stay, I think it was like back in 2010, at the end of life.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

So in 2010, there were about 150,000 incarcerated people in California. But when we look at people over the age of 55, 55 and older, we had about 11,000 in 2010, and now we have 18,000 people aged 55 and older. And it continued for years, but now with the treatment, it’s transitioned. So we’ve gone from 150,000 to 100,000.

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GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Archives of Internal Medicine 2010. Many years ago for the first study; I believe it was in 2009, 2010; I met with Susan Mitchell at the Institute for Aging Research, and told her that I wanted to study the use of feeding tubes for people with advanced dementia. Rehabbed to Death. My question is, why this study, and why now?

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Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

And we got this as a hospice referral, and could we, you know, take her on and support her in hospice? And the family members said, okay, now’s the time we need to honor her request. We need to completely stop eating all food and fluids that’s being delivered to her. And honestly, this was not a well planned out thing.

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IT Patient-Centered Patients Medical 88

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Chris 07:41 Yeah, it’s a really interesting thing, because the 2010 article was solving the problem of, hey, send us patients, we promise we won’t kill them. And that’s where a lot of hospice referrals happen for these individuals when they’re really declining and they get discharged with, with hospice.

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PEMBlog

MAY 9, 2024

In a study from Kim published in Pediatrics in 2010, they looked at 526 children with complex febrile seizures. And so briefly, let’s talk about that neurology referral and follow up. Almost two thirds of this population got lumbar punctures and only three had meningitis, all with a reason to suspect it.

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Illness Vaccination Family Families 59