Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. The vaccines were 75% effective in preventing emergency room or urgent care visits, and 75% effective against hospitalization, both among those ages 60 to 74 and those older. “I was there when they opened,” Beckham recalled.

Vaccination 52

Vaccination Illness Hospital Patient-Centered 52

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Ten years ago we would have been hard pressed to find 3 clinical trial abstracts submitted to the annual meeting, much less high quality randomized trials with robust measures, sample sizes, and analytics plans. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? I’m just stunned even writing that!

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

Why this study was a success due to the sheer size (nearly 100,000 patients in about 30 EDs) of the study, and the fact that, as far as the investigators know, all study sites continue to employ the clinical decision support tool. Why is that important in the emergency room? What is a cluster stepped wedge randomized trial?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77

GeriPal

MARCH 30, 2023

As I was cleaning up my office, I found something I’d written in 2016. ” I think that’s what I’m talking about with action, or it might be family leave policies. It isn’t the randomized trials, which are very important, obviously, for the work that all of us do, the work that I do clinically.

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

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.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125