Family Medicine Initiative

APRIL 10, 2024

Austria 14 Canada 15 France 16 Norway 17 Japan 18 USA 19 Sweden 20 Average GP visits 336 238 235 214 206 101 87 202 Specialist visits 284 70 98 91 70 102 44 108 Hospitalizations 38 8 28 14 6 7 13 16 Family physicians provide accessible and comprehensive care for most healthcare needs, most diseases, and all organs.

Family Physician 130

Family Physician Family Families GP 130

GeriPal

APRIL 21, 2022

Mike Rabow’s Comprehensive Care Team randomized trial of outpatient palliative care. 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). Links to Redwing Keyssar’s poetry collections .

Patient-Centered 93

Patient-Centered IT Community Illness 93

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Summary Transcript Summary We’ve talked a lot about comprehensive dementia care on the GeriPal podcast but while the evidence is clear that these programs work, the uptake has been limited largely because there hasn’t been a strong financial case for it. I didn’t know how to manage it. So we had Care Ecosystem.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125