Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Prescribing is the most-used intervention in primary care, and most prescriptions are issued in primary care. Objectives: 1) To measure the frequency of exposure to high-priority DDI among non-elderly community-dwelling non-elderly adults in Québec. Results: 1) 11.7% (95% CI: 11.5-12.0)

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Emergency Room Insurance ER 130

GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So Carmen and Katie developed an EMS Community Partnership program. They created a seamless link between this Community Partnership program and 911 calls for falls. Eric and I enjoyed talking with Carmen and Katie about this innovative and common sense approach to addressing falls in the community. What can we do as a community?

Community 116

Community Transportation IT PCP 116

GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The many arguments, theories, & approaches across settings and conditions are explored in detail in the book they edited, “ Intentionally Interprofessional Palliative Care ” (discount code AMPROMD9). Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc.

Screening 121

Screening IT Families Family 121

GeriPal

APRIL 10, 2025

I think back in what, May 2016, you published a randomized controlled trial, first author, palliative care and the ED randomized study, cancer patients. Primary outcome was quality of life. And so how do we think about palliative care in those patients? Was the clinician working frontline in those community hospitals?

Patient-Centered 78

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 78

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

None of the changes that we saw in end-of-life care processes relied on specialist palliative care increases or resources, which is really important because seven of the 10 hospitals that participated were rural or community-based, which is where most Americans receive their care, and also where specialist palliative care is often most limited.

Consulting 116

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 116

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we found out in our work that something like 70 or 80% of patients with dementia who have surgery come from the community, who are coming from home. Samir: As some of your audience may know, there are new billing codes introduced January 1st, 2016 to start reimbursing for having advance care planning discussions.

Patient-Centered 101

Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

BMJ

JUNE 25, 2021

Findings from a longitudinal study using primary care records, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e000780. 1 Clinical guidelines internationally recommend statin therapy for both primary and secondary prevention of CVD, making statins one of the most frequently prescribed drugs in industrialised countries.

Primary Care 40

Primary Care Clinical Practice Electronics Clinic 40

Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objective: To describe individual characteristics and healthcare use in older adults with SMI across home care services (HCS) profiles before and after the first dementia diagnosis. Dataset: Health administrative data from 380,124 Quebecers between 1996 and 2016. Study Design and Analysis: Retrospective cohort study.

Diagnosis 130

Diagnosis Healthcare Illness Primary Care 130

GeriPal

APRIL 20, 2023

One of the worst ways is you have a community of people who’ve paid into Social Security their whole life, paid into to support Medicare their whole life, and don’t live long enough to see the fruits of that. I would love to get the geriatrics community to say, “Age is just a number.” Not true, actually.

Mental Health 124

Mental Health IT Community Individual 124