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Associations between tapering or discontinuing opioids and subsequent pain-related primary care visits [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objective: To evaluate the associations between opioid dose tapers with continued opioid use and opioid tapers with discontinuation, and subsequent pain-related utilization primary care visits, ED encounters, and hospitalizations. Study Design: Retrospective cohort study. 1.32) and hospitalizations (aIRR 1.14, 95% CI: 1.03-1.27).

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

I think the big one for me, it was in 2015. 2015, 2016. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. That’s what Malaz is going to talk about. Malaz: Yeah.