Integrated Care News by CFHA

MAY 19, 2025

This position statement from the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA) outlines our organizational commitment to Measurement-Based Care (MBC) as a foundational element of integrated healthcare. vital signs, bloodwork laboratory findings, and other physical test data) as a means of guiding care over time. Lengerich, A.

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PEMBlog

MAY 15, 2023

History and physical examination are critical components to any emergency department evaluation but are especially helpful in syncope patients. Congenital Long QT Syndrome with arrow showing QT interval (courtesy of life in the fast lane [link] LQT1 is most common, triggered by emotional or physical stress (diving, swimming).

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Utilities Screening Physicals Family 97

GeriPal

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Within hours of recording this podcast, I joined a family meeting of an older patient who had multiple medical problems including cancer, and a slow but inexorable decline in function, weight, and cognition. But rarely does the podcast and clinical reality meet in the same day. Therapists are so much more. Ann, welcome to the GeriPal podcast.

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GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” 2015, 2016.

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