The Motivated MD

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

In medicine, it is commonly agreed that ‘to err is human’ Most healthcare professionals would agree that humans make mistakes. A study by Johns Hopkins in 2016 found that medical errors may potentially be the third leading cause of death nationwide. So yes, humans make mistakes.

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Finance Individual Education Healthcare Professional 52

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: So it was an embedded alert in the electronic health record and they just clicked those two answers very quickly. Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? It was the first randomized palliative care trial in hematology, is the way that I think of it. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative

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Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

JUNE 30, 2022

And we looked at the electronic health records at both of those hospital systems, the MGB network, folks who had fee-for-service Medicare coverage from October 2015 to about September 2017, 6,800 patients. Is there a role for the primary care doctor, for the anesthesiologist, for the consulting team, for … Eric: Integrative geriatrics.

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Patient-Centered Complication Patients IT 101

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? And so we did a similar intervention but using electronic means.

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Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 77