The Clinical Problem Solvers

DECEMBER 16, 2020

education, income, number of previous hospitalizations) that also lead to clinical outcomes, not only race-based stratification. However, the diagnostic approach used to determine changes in clinical management of renal disease (i.e. This can contribute to a more holistic understanding of disease progression and management.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Supporters said it was meant to close a legal loophole created in 2018 when a federal law allowed states to regulate hemp, a plant that can be processed to create THC. The proposed law would have made it a misdemeanor to own, make or sell THC products. Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final deadline to reject the bill, the AP said.

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BMJ

JULY 17, 2020

8 For example, prestigious medical schools and hospitals could use official WeChat accounts to share information and news with the general public. Shaanxi, Xi’an, China: Shaanxi Normal University; 2018. Scholars such as Wen et al. 皖南医学院学报 [J Wannan Med Coll] 2010;29(05):391–94. The valid path for anti-stigmatization of HIV/AIDS.

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GeriPal

JUNE 8, 2023

Our last podcast was with Laura Petrillo in 2018 – 5 years ago seems ancient history – though many of the points still apply today (e.g. And yet we’re also in a different place in diabetes monitoring and management. Eric: And you can probably tell already, the topic at hand is diabetes management in late life.

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PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Pulmonology and surgery were consulted during his hospital stay, and he has since had a left lower lobectomy after healing from his pneumonia. Management of Congenital Lung Malformations. 2018 Jul;48(3):247-250. Epub 2018 Apr 6. References Palla J, Sockrider MM. Congenital Lung Malformations. Pediatr Ann. 2022.08.003.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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FDA Law Blog

JANUARY 6, 2022

Wasserstein — “EKRA” refers to the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act, which was part of the Substance Use – Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients and Communities Act of 2018. EKRA is codified at 18 U.S.C. § 220 and was described on HP&M’s blog here. 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § EKRA Issue.

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GeriPal

MAY 19, 2022

Dr. Akhila Reddy and colleagues study looking at converting hospitalized cancer patients from IV hydromorphone to PO morphine, PO hydromorphone, or PO oxycodone. If you want to take a deeper dive into someo of the references, here you go: Pallmed Post on why “ Opioid Equianalgesic Tables are Broken ”. Is that right? Drew: Of course, yeah.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 16, 2024

Houck — Employee diversion of controlled substances from hospitals has been an issue since at least 1986 when I became a diversion investigator with the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”). UMHS agreed to resolve the allegations in August 2018 for $4,300,000 and compliance with a three-year Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”).

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So it’s just a wide-opening lens that most of us never really get to see if we’re on the hospital-based side. I was like, “I have all these things I’m doing in the hospital to try to make people better and then I might be sending them right back to a big hazardous environment.”

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GeriPal

APRIL 3, 2025

We covered: The first parody song I wrote, for AGS 2018 in Orlando , about this article by Nancy Schoenborn on how to discuss stopping cancer screening. Alex joined in 2018. This was 2018 in AGS Orlando, and they did a song about when to stop screening for cancer for colon cancer. Alex 05:15 Oh, really? And so we did this song.

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The Clinical Problem Solvers

MAY 30, 2022

Kozhimannil—the Distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Management at the University of Minnesota and Director of the Rural Health Research Center. Dr. Kozhimannil discusses her work on rural maternity care and the lack of hospital-based obstetric services. Published April 20, 2016.

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FDA Law Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

FDA previously released the final guidance document in December 2018 outlining the program’s principles, features, designation criteria, and other considerations. Additionally, the 2022 draft guidance suggested the addition of a new section to the 2018 guidance on reducing disparities in health and healthcare.

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GeriPal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Of note: these lessons apply to geriatrics, primary care, hospital medicine, critical care, cancer care, etc, etc. In 2018, survey data revealed that only 41% of survey adult practices had the full complement of funded core team members, which is up from 25% of 2016. So we totally forget that all of us are symptom managers as well.

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GeriPal

MARCH 2, 2023

2022 Perioperative Gabapentin Use in Older AdultsRevisiting Multimodal Pain Management JAMA IM. JAMA Surgery 2018 Gabapentin and mood stabilizers in the Nursing Home Setting: Antiepileptic prescribing to persons living with dementia residing in nursing homes: A tale of two indications. J Am Geriatr Soc. Nisha: Thank you so much.

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GeriPal

MARCH 3, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Ken Covinsky wrote a GeriPal post about a Jack Iwashyna JAMA study finding that older adults who survive sepsis are likely to develop new functional and cognitive deficits after they leave the hospital. I want to say like 2017, 2018, something like that. It was amazing. It was really, really crazy.

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Tiny Physician

MARCH 30, 2022

Archana Sharma committed suicide because of the harassment by the bystanders of the patient who died at her hospital. However, she found herself in trouble when one of her patients, whom she treated at her hospital, died due to postpartum hemorrhage (bleeding from the birth canal after delivery).

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GeriPal

JULY 21, 2022

Eric: For those of you don’t know, Emmy was on our podcast back in 2018 … man, pre-COVID times. I’ve worked in hospital settings as an occupational therapist, inpatient rehab and outpatient rehab. Emmy: I was seeing people in the hospital setting, saying they had had a massive brain injury. Emmy: About 25%.

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GeriPal

MAY 12, 2022

In this podcast, we cover a great deal of ground, including: Early challenges Dr. Raj faced in pain management: access to opioids, corruption, a system that doesn’t see addressing suffering as a priority. But from what we read was much better as century back, is in communities manage their own affairs. They shared their experiences.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

William: So ASCO decided to make a high priority this year to redo the guidelines, which were originally released in 2018. Overtreatment leads to hospitalizations, undertreatment leads to disease progression. And for some of them, the stays in hospitals are a month long. It’s really up to the oncologist. Mazie: Yes.

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PEMBlog

JUNE 5, 2024

Let’s go ahead and pivot to initial management. Or patients with a substantial head or torso injury and substantial means that they’re going to require an intervention or observation in the hospital. Any patient with a cervical spine injury or a neurologic deficit They’re getting admitted to the hospital.

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GeriPal

JUNE 22, 2023

Michele: Yeah, so in May of 2018, there was an article by Suleika Jaouad in the New York Times Magazine, and they spent about two weeks in our hospice with us learning about the work that’s done. Michele: The article was 2018, but I think Bonnie read the article more recently. Eric: How long ago was this? Alex: A few years back.

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Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

GPs Are the Backbone of Effective Healthcare Systems Countries with a stronger focus on primary care and family medicine, rather than on hospitals and specialists, enjoy better health, 1 , 2 lower health inequalities, 2 , 3 and prevent hospitalizations. 2 , 4 I believe this is crucial and that all politicians should know about it.

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GeriPal

JUNE 29, 2023

But the other was she read an article about our hospice in the May of 2018 New York Times magazine. And I actually shared that story with Bonnie’s manager and she just thought it was pretty cool that the whole thing had come full circle, the song that she was inspired by them and then they were so moved by the song that she wrote.

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GeriPal

APRIL 24, 2025

For this weekly treatment, the cancer team that had been consulted in the hospital told him this is nonsense. That could include a robust home care plan to manage his symptoms. In fact, the Right to Try act signed into law in 2018, allows patients with life threatening illness to access investigational drugs. I knew two things.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Alex: And we’re delighted to welcome back, a frequent guest to our podcast, Rachelle Bernacki, who’s a palliative care physician and geriatrician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. We see our patients and our families throughout the illness trajectory into the hospital.

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GeriPal

MARCH 27, 2025

But most people with dementia are initially diagnosed and medically managed in primary care, and they really desire clinicians to initiate these conversations but there are a number of really important barriers for these conversations taking place. Why did you even bother doing this study? Jennifer 04:34 Yeah, thanks for the question.

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GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Look also for a forthcoming article by Mike and Redwing in Journal of Pain and Symptom Management on poetry as a healing modality, to be published mid May (will add link when out). That’s coming out in JP… Redwing: JPSM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, yeah. Alex: Is that publication out? Alex: May 15th.

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PEMBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We will review the clinical presentation, diagnostic strategies, management protocols, infection control practices, and vaccination updates. This episode also covers what healthcare providers need to know about post-exposure prophylaxis, respiratory precautions, and managing occupational exposures. link] UpToDate Yeh S et al.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 25, 2025

Gaunt and feverish, he went to the hospital and learned he had AIDS. His mother slept at his hospital bedside for two weeks: “She said, ‘God got you.’” Community-based interventions worked: New HIV infections dropped by 12% from 2018 to 2022.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 2, 2025

By Julie Appleby Tim Winard knew he needed to buy health insurance when he left his management job in manufacturing to launch his own business. Early last year, he had the colonoscopy at a hospital in Elmhurst, Illinois, not far from his home in Addison. Winard said the hospital declined the offer. Then the bill came.

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Physician's Weekly

JUNE 17, 2025

Prior authorization varies by plan but often requires patients or their providers to get permission (also called precertification, preauthorization, or preapproval) before filling prescriptions, scheduling imaging, surgery, or an inpatient hospital stay, among other expenses. The practice isn’t new. ” None of their appeals worked.

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Physicians News Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Helen Haskell’s 15-year-old son, Lewis, died after surgery in 2000 because weekend hospital staffers didn’t realize he was in shock. Haskell, of Columbia, South Carolina, has done research and helped write AHRQ-published surveys and guidebooks on patient engagement for hospitals. Now, the naysayers have triumphed.

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FDA Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

In 2018, Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its Blueprint to Lower Drug Prices and Reduce Out-of-Pocket Costs , but the edifice envisioned by the Blueprint largely failed to materialize.

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