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Many Older People Embrace Vaccines. Research Is Proving Them Right.

Physician's Weekly

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.” It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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PC Trials at State of Science: Tom LeBlanc, Kate Courtright, & Corita Grudzen

GeriPal

Alex: Recently you talked about the other trial, also with a nudge, and that was non-cancer, serious illness. I am part of some other work in the ICU world looking at time-limited trials and trying to better define what those are, how we talk about them, how we talk about them with patients and families. Emergency rooms.

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RCT of PC in ED: Corita Grudzen, Fernanda Bellolio, & Tammie Quest

GeriPal

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. Why is that important in the emergency room?