Annals of Family Medicine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Context: Electronic health record (EHR) order preference lists and order sets potentially improve efficiency but have limited utility in complex primary care settings. Population Study: Primary care clinicians including MD/DO and advanced practice providers (i.e., nurse practitioners and physician assistants).

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Finance Utilities 130

Barton Associates

MAY 8, 2025

In this blog, we’re going to outline four key ways temporary medical staff such as locum tenens providers can help healthcare facilities maintain continuity of high-quality patient care in the face of growing shortages. Enter temporary medical staff, such as locum tenens providers. Many healthcare facilities in the U.S.

Medical Staff 52

Medical Staff Medical Patients Healthcare 52

GeriPal

APRIL 6, 2023

To provide context, we are joined by Karen Steinhauser, a social scientist at Duke who has been studying spirituality for years (and published one of the most cited papers in palliative care on factors considered important at the end of life , as well as one of my favorite qualitative papers to give to research trainees ). Lexy: Well, so no.

IT 99

IT Patient-Centered Families Family 99

GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

Randy died February 26, 2023. And if I remember that study correctly, it was priming both patients and providers in the outpatient setting to do goals of care conversations. And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. Should it be decreased utilization, decreased use of CPR?

Patient-Centered 84

Patient-Centered IT Hospital Patients 84

GeriPal

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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.” Eric: Okay.

Patient-Centered 125

Patient-Centered IT Families Family 125