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Assessment of Project ECHO(R) Opioid Use Disorder Sessions for Primary Care Teams [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

Unfortunately, most individuals suffering from OUD do not have access to necessary care. While primary care (PC) settings have the potential to bridge this gap in care, many care teams lack the education and training required to effectively manage patients with OUD. Setting: 20 PC practices located in various regions across the US.

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Prescribing Red Flags: Pharmacists Be Wary of What the Doctor Orders

FDA Law

For a controlled substance prescription to be effective, that is valid, it must be issued for a legitimate medical purpose by an individual practitioner acting in the usual course of their professional practice. Complaint, 82. 81, 86, 251. 81, 86, 251. 81, 89, 251. 81, 89, 251.

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Amyloid Antibodies and the Role of the Geriatrician: Nate Chin, Sharon Brangman, and Jason Karlawish

GeriPal

The outlook on amyloid antibodies are looking brighter though in 2023. So what is the role of individuals like geriatricians in prescribing amyloid antibodies and caring for individuals who are receiving them? I think geriatricians seed to decide whether they want to get on board as individuals. I’m a prescriber.

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Aging and Homelessness: Margot Kushel

GeriPal

What are the structural factors and individual factors that contribute to homelessness? We would drill down on the tenth differential diagnosis of medium vessel vasculitis, and then we would discharge them back out to the streets. The worse the structural factors are, the fewer individual factors you need to become homeless.

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

GeriPal

This model will give participating programs a per-member-per-month payment to offer care management, care coordination, and other services such as caregiver training, disease education, and respite. I had the tenacity and education to try to figure this out. I found it to be an incredibly hard journey. I had a supportive spouse.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

GeriPal

The patients that, I think, most benefited from it were those individuals who, as I said, maybe, had a pneumonia, and needed IV antibiotics, but wanted to do that… If they could get better in the comfort of their own homes, that were not interested in passing away in the hospital. Bruce: This is, Ghostbusters, basically, a ham radio.

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Whoop! There It Is: A Pertinent Pediatric Pertussis Podcast

PEMBlog

Pertussis infection in infants and children: Clinical features and diagnosis. Coverage with Selected Vaccines and Exemption Rates Among Children in Kindergarten — United States, 2023–24 School Year. In this episode, we’ll go over clinical presentation, diagnosis management, infection control, and post exposure protocols.

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