Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. Take influenza, which annually sends from 140,000 to 710,000 people to hospitals, most of them seniors, and is fatal to 10% of hospitalized older adults. “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. Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Also the same hospital system?

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

We are fortunate to have Tammie Quest, emergency and palliative trained and long a leader in this space, to help us unpack and contextualize these findings. Today we discuss: Why the study was negative for the primary (hospitalization) and all secondary outcome (e.g. Tammie 03:04 Depends on how long they were pre-hospital.

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. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. We have these quality metrics like hospitalization days before death, used hospice, enrolled in hospice, and days before death. And so, how can this be?

IT 95

IT Patient-Centered Patients Healthcare 95

FDA Law

MAY 21, 2024

We wondered how given that HHS and the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”) conducted eight-factor scheduling analyses in 2016, concluding that there was “no substantial evidence that marijuana should be removed from Schedule I.” 12, 2016) ; Denial of Petition to Initiate Proceedings to reschedule Marijuana, 81 Fed. 12, 2016).

Physicals 69

Physicals Medical Clinic Emergency Room 69

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The way we were treating him with dementia in the hospital, the way we talked about him, that he’s not there. Malaz: … to restrain them in the hospital. 2015, 2016. So IU, we have been able to convert our paper, Chris Callahan paper that was published in 2006, the first clinical trial that was positive.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Family Families 125