Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Objectives To assess overall medication adherence as an indicator for emergency room (ER) visits, hospitalizations, and mortality among elderly patients. We retrieved information on all ER visits and hospitalizations in internal medicine and surgical wards from 2017 to 2019 and mortality in 2019.

Hypertension 130

Hypertension Diabetes ER Medical 130

GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2023

We don’t want people dying in the hospital if their goal is to be at home. Either they go down continuous home care or somebody comes to the home, or they go into GIP, or they are a live discharge and get admitted to the acute care hospital. Every time she has a change in level of consciousness, she has to go to the ER.

IT 115

IT Provider Patients Families 115

GeriPal

APRIL 18, 2024

Alex: In 2019 … You wrote two viewpoints about AI recently in JAMA, relatively recently. I guess, 2019, and then, one again about last month or so. The results were that the chat bots got the diagnoses right and had an escalation strategy that was better than the doctors, as judged by blinded specialists reading the transcripts.

IT 140

IT Electronics Patients Healthcare 140