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EMS Intervention to Reduce Falls: Carmen Quatman and Katie Quatman-Yates

GeriPal

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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Sweet! A Metabolic Disorders focused podcast episode

PEMBlog

She did her MD/PhD at Columbia University, where she investigated the diagnostic utility of exome sequencing for kidney disease. 2016 Jan;37(1):3-15; quiz 16-7, 47. Now, newborn screening, or NBS, includes testing newly born infants for certain IEMs. You can contact her via email at egroopman@childrensnational.org. Pediatr Rev.

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Dignity at the End of Life: A Podcast with Harvey Chochinov

GeriPal

Our early studies were looking at things like, desire for death, and syndromal depression, and screening for depression and anxiety, and will to live. The specifics of how it does that depend on the population in which it’s implemented, and the outcome measure that is utilized. Eric: Yeah.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

So I thought… And I was doing this for the United States Preventive Services Task Force because we were looking at the evidence to what’s the benefit and harm of screening, and I had to look all over. 2015, 2016. And then 2016 after CMMI finished the evaluation, it looked good, nothing happened. Malaz: Yeah.