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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

These individuals are often high utilizers of health care services, with some of the costliest services being hospital admissions and emergency department (ED) visits. A difference-in-differences (DID) approach was used to compare outcomes in two groups: Medicaid beneficiaries assigned to KHH and those who were not.

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

PEMBlog

Learning Objectives Describe the classic and atypical clinical presentations of Parvovirus B19 infection in pediatric patients, including erythema infectiosum, arthropathy, transient aplastic crisis, and chronic anemia in immunocompromised hosts. Sometimes I share it with patients and families. But what is it?

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Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

Dr. Shay’s original definition was based upon his patients’ war narratives and Homer’s Iliad (762 B.C.) Since 2012, I’ve spoken to thousands of suicidal doctors—even published a book of physician suicide letters. In medicine, combating illness requires primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention. Not burnout.

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Frailty Triples Odds of More Severe RSV Illness

Physician's Weekly

Frail patients often have compromised immune responses, which increases their vulnerability to infections and reduces their ability to recover from acute respiratory illnesses (ARIs), including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the researchers continued. Data came from the three influenza seasons from 2012 to 2015.

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Agitation Podcast Series Episode 2: Non-pharmacologic management of agitated children

PEMBlog

Patient that are agitated should always be treated with dignity and respect. 2012 Jan;109(3):27-32. Structured team approach to the agitated patient in the emergency department. This entails utilizing the least invasive non-pharmacologic means of assisting them, before moving to physical or chemical restraints. PMC3272587.

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

This week, we talk about the other major palliative care trial of default palliative care consults for hospitalized older adults with COPD, kidney disease, or dementia, published in the same issue of JAMA. And PAIR stands for the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. and consulting for Papa Health.

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Once again, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is in the line of fire

Common Sense Family Doctor

Nonetheless, its work has often been politically unpopular and unheralded outside of a small community of health services researchers and patient advocates. You need not be ill enough to be hospitalized or care about practice guidelines to suffer if AHRQ is eliminated for good. spends on health care more wisely or efficiently.