Physician's Weekly

JUNE 24, 2025

So, in 2016, she celebrated her 60th birthday at her local CVS. “Season in and season out,” Schaffner said, “it produces outbreaks of serious respiratory illness that rivals influenza.” Her doctor and several pharmacies turned her down because she was below the recommended age at the time, which was 60.

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. Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I asked emergency medicine clinicians what they thought when a patient who is seriously ill and DNR comes to the ED, and some responded, (paraphrasing), what are they doing here? This is not why I went into emergency medicine. I went into emergency medicine to act. What is a cluster stepped wedge randomized trial?

Patient-Centered 77

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77