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. The post Many Older People Embrace Vaccines.

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GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Kate: It was done in 10 hospitals, 17 ICUs in Atrium Health down in North Carolina. Asking clinicians to document prognosis did not change the primary outcome of hospital length of stay or really any of the secondary outcomes, which I’ll get into. Also the same hospital system? That’s when they got enrolled.

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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.

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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. She’s not in hospice, and you’re talking about admitting her to the hospital. I’ve never submitted a piece of my mind.

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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.” Malaz: I love it.

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