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The Impact of Integrated Care on Healthcare Utilization and Costs: Evidence from the Kansas Health Homes Medicaid Program [Behavioral, psychosocial, and mental illness]

Annals of Family Medicine

This study also provides the first formal evaluation of the KHH program. These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits.

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Prescribing Red Flags and Suspicious Controlled Substance Orders: Current Cautionary Tales

FDA Law Blog

Houck — Separate decisions by federal district courts in Texas and Puerto Rico in the past two months provide cautionary tales for every pharmacy and wholesale distributor dispensing or distributing controlled substances. Providers should be aware of the other drugs prescribed to their patients. By Larry K. Holiday CVS, L.L.C.

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Parvo Podcast! Erythema Infectiosum, Fifth Disease, and more!

PEMBlog

Youll also learn how to manage exposures in the emergency department, especially when the child has a pregnant caregiver, and why isolation isnt always necessary once the rash shows up. Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Parvovirus B19 Infection. Treatment and Prevention of Parvovirus B19 Infection. UpToDate , Jun. Parvoviruses.

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. Hypertensive emergency is a clinical diagnosis characterized by a sudden and severe elevation in blood pressure accompanied by signs of acute end-organ dysfunction.

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A podcast episode about laryngomalacia

PEMBlog

Early diagnosis is crucial as it can impact a child’s growth and development. Learn all about diagnosis and management of this common problem in this brief podcast episode. 2012 Oct;147(4):619-26. Expiratory airway sounds are commonly heard in addition to the stridor, and diagnosis needs scope.

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End-of-Life Doulas: A Podcast with Jane Euler, Beth Klint, and John Loughnane

GeriPal

We are delighted to welcome Jane Euler, who is lead doula and co-founder of Present for You, which is a benefit LLC company that provides doula support at the end-of-life. We are doulas for those with serious illness and those at end-of-life, just a longitudinal relationship, nonmedical support to provide presence. Jane: Right.

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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

GeriPal

And is there a middle path to provide some degree of comfort while also hastening the end of life? And she was from Oregon, of course, and in Oregon in 2012, she had completed an advanced directive for stopping eating and drinking once she had advanced dementia. And then finally you have the moral distress of the providers.

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