Common Sense Family Doctor

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Since the turn of the century, the rise of hospitalists and the corresponding decline in the number of office-based family physicians who provide inpatient care for their own patients has magnified the value of optimizing the handoff from hospital-based teams to primary care physicians.

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Hospital Management Primary Care Primary Care Physician 52

The Medical Futurist

JUNE 21, 2025

In 2013, only 56 percent of Americans owned a smartphone, which climbed to around 90% by now. Their success is understandable : they offer a fast and easy method to check any skin conditions, typically for a fraction of the cost of a traditional healthcare appointment.

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ABIM

JUNE 11, 2025

Representatives from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) joined for a portion of the meeting*. The following is a summary of the spring meeting. Visit the ABIM Blog for reports of prior meetings.

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Board-Certified Government Community Education 52

GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Barbara: Oh, I think it was 2013. Now, my SWHPN friends will get mad at me if I got that wrong, but I think it was 2013. When you think about leadership and we think about health care, we still live in a healthcare system that has a hierarchy. And so there are different levels of power within our healthcare system.

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IT Family Families Clinic 102

GeriPal

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

I talked about lack of prestige and respect, and I talked about how healthcare system leaders and medical school deans don’t always seem to value the field of geriatrics. But then I realized who I wasn’t hearing from, I did not hear from the CEO of my organization, my healthcare organization. One was very surprising.

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Board-Certified IT Community Medical Student 91

ABIM

JUNE 24, 2025

Preliminary data show that 90% of respondents are clinically active with the majority in hospital- or system-owned practice (38%), academic faculty practice (32.9%) and private practice (26.8%). Most (49.5%) are in single-specialty group practice or multi-specialty group practice (38%).

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Board-Certified Board-Certified Physicians Government Community 40

GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. To this day, Ken’s post is still one of the most searched and viewed posts on GeriPal. Eric: What was that paper?

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Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Older adults with severe mental illness (SMI) who develop dementia are a particularly complex and understudied population with various healthcare needs. Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis.

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Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130

GeriPal

AUGUST 22, 2024

Knowing I was interested in neurology and had opportunities to observe brain death determination in the hospital. Healthcare provide. Healthcare companies. So in the case of Jahi McMath, you were talking about, you know, her family was kicked out of the hospital. Winston 33:31 2013. Insurance companies.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 2, 2023

[link] CPSolvers: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 21 – Psychosocial and Cultural Considerations for Providing Healthcare to Immigrant and Refugee Populations Show Notes by Kiersten T. 2022 May 28;399(10340):2013. Opinion: Covid-19 Shows Us Why We Should Keep ICE Out of Hospitals. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(22)00741-3.

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Provider Clinical Practice Clinic 52

GeriPal

JUNE 2, 2022

We’ve lived through lockdowns, toilet paper shortages, mask mandates, hospital surges where ICU’s overflowed, a million COVID deaths, prolonged school closures, development and roll out of novel vaccines, an explosion of social isolation and loneliness, and the invention of the “zoom meeting.” . But hospitalizations are low.

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Vaccination IT Hospital Management 100

GeriPal

JULY 16, 2024

For hospitalization, for death, for all sorts of adverse events, I think are a reason for concern. The post Ageism and Elections: Louise Aronson and Ken Covinsky appeared first on A Geriatrics and Palliative Care Podcast for Every Healthcare Professional. Although I might push a little harder to say that the risks of frailty with.

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Diagnosis IT Diagnose Physicals 141

Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. are tested for jaundice before discharge from hospitals.

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