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The utilization patterns and impact of the Stanford Chronic Pain Self-Management Program in Eastern Ontario, Canada [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

Objectives: In this study, we aimed to describe patterns of utilization of a Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP) in Eastern Ontario and evaluate the impact of the program on patient activation, a measure of participants’ involvement in their care, their health behaviors, and their knowledge of the condition.

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

GeriPal

Eric: So you both published a paper in JAGS, what, 2018, ’19 looking at what happens to people? 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. Eric: Yeah, that is amazing. Carmen: Yeah.

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Should We Shift from Advance Care Planning to Serious Illness Communication?

GeriPal

Should we focus on something else, both from a clinical and a research perspective? And so the definition of advance care planning really switched in, I think, 2017, 2018, there was kind of a United States definition and then an international consensus definition. Get the hospice referral. What’s the evidence behind it?

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