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.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Wait, first of all, what’s the incidence of calling EMS for falls over almost a decade, I think like 2007 to 2016, and what happens to people afterwards? So what we found is up to 30% of people would call 911 again for a fall, and of those calls, some people became very high-utilizers and so they would call 911 over and over again.
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GeriPal
MARCH 28, 2024
Eric: And that’s similar to the 2016 JAMA paper, right? Eric: And we’re going to get to results, but that’s why I also love that 2016 paper: I think it was the very first palliative care trial that ever looked at individuals getting curative therapy. Did it negate everything from the 2016 trial?Palliative
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. Eric 04:26 So that 2016 study was in the ED, but it was getting specialty palliative care to see them when they were hospitalized, is that right? Primary outcome was quality of life.
GeriPal
APRIL 14, 2022
So I have thought about this for months, maybe years since your 2016, cycle blog, but we have picked Under Pressure by David Bowie and Queen. Katie: I have to thank Rachelle Bernacki for this because she told me the secret to getting on the GeriPal Podcast is having a good song. Eric: And why Under Pressure.
GeriPal
AUGUST 25, 2022
And then secondly, around some of our quality measures, there’s been differences found in multiple papers by many teams around hospice disenrollment, higher rates of hospice disenrollment in for-profit hospices, and higher rates of healthcare utilization. They only started having to publicly report these in 2016.
GeriPal
AUGUST 24, 2023
The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. So when patients express a wish to die, that’s not just something that began in 2016 when legislation came into effect. Eric: Yeah. Well, Harvey, I want to thank you for being on this podcast.
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