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Exposure to high-priority drug-drug interactions among non-elderly adults in Quebec: a cohort study [Prescribing and pharmacotherapeutics]

Annals of Family Medicine

Dataset: Quebec administrative health databases containing de-identified prescription drug claims, ER visits, hospitalizations, and medical acts held by the National Institute for Excellence in Health and Social Services (INESSS) were used. 2) Hazard ratio for an adverse event (emergency room visit, hospitalization, or death).

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The importance of social connection: Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Thomas Cudjoe, & Carla Perissinotto

GeriPal

Julianne: It’s interesting because I think I read somewhere that a finding in science often takes about, on average, 17 years to make it into medical practice. We’ll talk about is it in medical practice yet? And then the second one in 2015. I moved to Baltimore in 2015 and did clinical fellowship in geriatrics.

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Aging and the ICU: Podcast with Lauren Ferrante and Julien Cobert

GeriPal

And it culminated in him giving a bad light to the patient in the hospital room because that was the only semblance of normalcy for this patient. So at least in my practice, that’s often how this has happened, unless these conversations have taken place beforehand, either in the emergency room or with primary care providers.

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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. But for other- Diane: And it’s on the medical side. The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. Some of these models I think include more medication management, some of them don’t.