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A COVID-19 Personal Story

Metro Family Physicians

The 2019-2020 season INFLUENZA deaths in the US were 34,200 out of 35.5 By the 4th day, she was coughing & a little short of breath, which continued to worsen rapidly, so that on 4/15/2020, she had to go to the Emergency Room. Steph was intubated the morning of 4/17/2020, one of 52 patients on ventilators in the ICU.

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

GeriPal

Don’t get me wrong, the evidence points to cost savings, but as Chris Callahan and Kathleen Unroe pointed out in a JAGS editorial in 2020 “in comprehensive dementia care models, savings may accrue to Medicare, but the expenses accrue to a fluid and unstable network of local service providers, patients, and their families.” Diane: Fantastic.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

2020 Hospital at Home-Plus: A Platform of Facility-Based Care. JAGS Hospital-at-Home Interventions vs In-Hospital Stay for Patients With Chronic Disease Who Present to the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. Annals of Int Med.

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