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When to Go to Urgent Care for a Sore Throat: How Can Urgent Care Help?

Doctor On Demand

In fact, most sore throat symptoms resolve in three days for 60-70% of patients, according to March 2025 UpToDate, an evidence-based clinical decision support system used by healthcare professionals. When to go to the ER for a sore throat Go to the emergency room (ER) if your sore throat causes any difficulty swallowing or breathing.

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

GeriPal

The typical utilization of inappropriate hospitalization and emergency room and total cost of care. And those people have a higher, not just dementia, but other multiple chronic conditions. So we came out with a report in March of 2023, followed it on the heels of a report that we had done in November, 2022.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

In that clinical experience, we saw a lot of older adults who would develop acute illness, often exacerbations of their chronic conditions. And then, the patient can bypass the emergency room entirely. At our program, we actually require that folks come into the emergency room and have their initial assessment.

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